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X. In the family Coleophoridce, the genus Coleophora is 

 well represented on the upper Alps: of ten species which 

 occur there, six seem peculiar ; these are C. Fulvosquamella, 

 Albisquamella, NuMvagella, Valesianella? Tractella? and 

 Rectilineella. The four others, which also occur in the plain, 

 are Ornatipennella, Luscinicepennella [Gryphipennella, 

 Sta.], Annulatella and Solitariella, 



XL Of the family Gracilaridce, the genus Coriscium is 

 unrepresented. Of the genus Ornix, one very lovely insect, 

 O. Pfaffenzelleri (allied to 0. Loganella), appears peculiar 

 to the higher Alps ; the larva feeds probably on Cotoneaster. 

 Three species of Qracilaria ascend these heights, viz. Auro- 

 guttella, Rujipennella and Stigmatella. A peculiarly Alpine 

 Gracilaria has not yet been observed. 



XII. Of the extensive family of the Elachktidw most of 

 the genera seem to be entirely wanting in the higher Alps, 

 as, for instance, Batrachedra, Cosmopteryx, Stathmopoda, 

 JBedellia, Chrysoclista, Schrechensteinia, Seliodines, Stag- 

 matophora, Antispila, and also Tischeria. The remaining 

 genera are represented, but none furnish us with peculiarly 

 Alpine species. We meet with Ochromolopis ictella, La- 

 verna miscella and Langiella, likewise JElachista humilis, 

 bifasciella and truncatella [Bedellella, Sta.] ; certainly other 

 species of Elachista should occur there. Ckauliodus scurella, 

 which we used to consider peculiar to the upper Alps, has 

 been found by Herrich-S chaffer at a much lower elevation, 

 at Reichenhall, near Salzburg. 



XIII. Of the Lyonetidce, one Lyonetia, the beautiful 

 Frigidariella* discovered by Von Hey den, is peculiar to 



* Entomologist's Annual for 1856, p. 131. 



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