from a Paper by Zeller on Tinea. 131 



preceding, a pair which previously I had considered as this, I pos- 

 sess only two lemniscella, as a probably distinct species, and have 

 two of Metzner's specimens for comparison. This lemniscella is 

 so like the preceding, that I shall merely mention the difference. 

 The anterior wings, to the naked eye blackish or brown, are under 

 a lens yellowish hrown to the fascia, darkest on the costa, with faint 

 lustre, and without any mixture of violet or purple colouring. 

 The fascia is in my small decided female very narrow, and placed 

 obliquely. Posterior legs with thinner tibiae shining clear grey. 

 Antennae of this specimen brown, on the underside shining yel- 

 lowish. In the second specimen, which is pasted, and of which 

 I cannot recognize the sex, they are throughout yellowisli. 



" The two specimens from Metzner, rather larger than mine, I 

 can only consider as one species, although the one is considered 

 as lemniscella, the other as hemargyrella. The only difference 

 they show is, that in lemniscella, Metzn., the fascia on the anterior 

 wings is yellower, and is posteriorly emarginated in the middle, 

 and that the posterior wings are darker coloured on the surface 

 and also the cilia. Both appear to me to be males ; the abdomen 

 with one especially is quite thin and flat, and in both it ends with 

 a yellowish anal tuft, which divides into two longer little tufts. 

 Their hairs-of-the-head are j^ale yellow, the eye-caps as usual, the 

 antennae greyish yellow and shining. On the anterior wings the 

 cilia from the upper to the lower end of the fascia are clear grey ; 

 but on their basal half lie broad violet-brown scales, darker at 

 the end, radiating at the apex of the wing, and there this is some- 

 what recurved, and in shade is black, so that it makes it appear 

 as an ocellus. (In my specimens these scales are wanting, and 

 the cilia pass gradually from the brown tint to gray.) These 

 belong truly, as males, to lemniscella, so this is certainly a dis- 

 tinct species from the preceding, differing in the males by the 

 colour of the hairs of the head." 



" Lemniscella is scarce near Glogau on the trunks of elms : of 

 Metzner's specimens, one hemargyrella is from Steyermark, the 

 other from Silesia." 



** Sp. 5. Centifoliella,Y. Heyden." Linn. Ent. vol. 3, p. 315. 



" Alis anterioribus violascenti-fuscis nitidulis, fascia postica ar- 

 gyrea ; capillis $ nigris, $ ferrugineis ; conchula antenna- 

 rum pallida parva." 



" This very small species differs from lemniscella by the ante- 

 rior wings from the base being brownish, and with rather a violet 



