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THE TINE^I OF THE HIGHER ALPS. 



the higher Alps ; we also meet with the pretty Bucculatrix 

 aurimacuhlla. The genera Phyllocnistis, Cemiostoma and 

 Opostega seem unrepresented. 



XIV. As concerns the beautiful family Lithocolletidte, of 

 the 43 Swiss species only two occur in the upper Alps, 

 namely, L. Alpina, which is very common in the Engadine, 

 feeding on Alnus viridis, and another, of which I only 

 possess a single specimen, and therefore cannot speak with 

 confidence. It is very singular that I cannot find in the 

 Alps Lithocolletis Vacciniella and Nepticula Weaveri, 

 though they occur on high ground in England and Scotland, 

 and the food plant is abundant in the Alps. 



XV. The family Nepticulidce is likewise but poorly repre- 

 sented in the higher Alps. Last August I found, for the 

 first time, on one of the Glarus Alps, at an elevation of 

 5,400 feet, Nepticula Septembrella, and the mine of a new 

 species on mountain-ash (Sorbus aucuparia), mining in a 

 blotch ; this latter also occurs near Zurich, but has not yet 

 been reared. Years ago the late Herr Bremi- Wolff collected 

 a species of Trifurcula abundantly on the Righi. 



LIST OF SWISS TINEINA. 



I. Exapatid^:. 

 Exapate 

 Dasystoma . . 

 Chimabacche 

 Semioscopis 



