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me in his breeding-cages the larvse of Lampronia prcela- 

 tella, then feeding by hundreds, whereas in England they 

 have ceased feeding long before then. It would appear as if 

 the greater cold of the Continental winters checked their 

 jaw-work earlier in the autumn, and so left them more work 

 to do in the spring. I obtained from Herr Krosmann two 

 species I did not previously possess — Ypsolophus Sabinellus, 

 and Hosier stammia cariosella— besides a new Tinea, legiti- 

 mella, v. Heyden ; I also borrowed for examination and 

 eventual description a new Tinea, nearly allied to fulvi- 

 mitrella, and which Herr Krosmann had placed in his cabi- 

 net as that species: this specimen I showed to the various 

 Lepidopterists I subsequently visited, and having ascer- 

 tained beyond a doubt that the species is new, I have much 

 pleasure in naming it, after Herr Krosmann (in recollection 

 of the very pleasant afternoon I spent with him), Tinea 

 Kr'dsmannii.* 



The following day we proceeded to Berlin, arriving late 

 at night at the Hotel Brandenbourg, and the next day visited 

 the Museum, saw Professor Klug, and made the acquaint- 

 ance of Herr Hoppter and Dr. Gerstacker ; the former 

 gave me specimens of a very pretty new Penthina roseo- 

 maculana, Mann, and the following day when I visited his 

 collection I obtained an indifferent specimen of Mr. Bux- 

 ton's new Chilo (see ante, p. 33). After visiting Herr 

 Hoppfer I proceeded to Alexander-Strasse to visit Herr 

 Grabow, whom Professor Zeller had only discovered the pre- 

 vious autumn, and who had amassed an amount of valuable 

 information during a series of years, all of which would pro- 



* Tinea Krosmann ii, n. sp. Alis anticis brunneis, maculis quatuor 

 flavidis, brunneo-reticulatis, duabus dorsi, duabus alternantibus poste- 

 rioribus costae ; capite ferrugineo. Exp. al. 9g lin. 



A larger and broader-winged insect than Fulvimitrella , the ground 

 colour of the wings brown, not purplish-black ; the spots yellowish and 

 reticulated luith brown ; besides, the first costal spot is much larger than 

 in Fulvimitrella, 



