140 Mr. H. T. Stainton's Remarhs on Extracts 



" Sp. 4. Gaunacella, F. R." Linn. Ent. vol. 3, p. 338. 

 " Alls anterioribus virescenti-fuscis, nitidulis, palpis flavidis." 



Rather larger than the former, but much smaller than the fol- 

 lowing, and distinguished from it by the narrower anterior wings, 

 and their pale colour without any violet tint. It resembles ^mccm- 

 latrix nigricomella in the anterior wings, but this has a deep black 

 tuft of hair on the head, and a large clear-yellow eye-cap, and the 

 consideration of the structure of the antennae always readily dis- 

 tinguishes this and other more remote concolorous greenish brown 

 species from our Tischcria. 



" The single female in my collection is the same size as the two 

 males, and a somewhat violet, less yellowish tint of the anterior 

 wings and concolorous antennae. 



" Mann discovered this species at Vienna ; he took it also near 

 Pratovecchio, in Tuscany, on sloe bushes, in the middle of June." 



** Sp. 5. AngusUcollella, Heyden." Linn. Ent. vol. 3, p. 339. 



" Alis anterioribus latiusculis, cupreo-fuscis, nitidulis, costa ex 

 basi chalybea, antennis apice albido." 



" In size this comes next to complanella ; differs from the pre- 

 ceding in the broader, pale coppery brown anterior wings^ with 

 the costa steel-coloured, and the whitish apices of the antennae." 



" This species was first discovered at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. 

 From the discoverer Heyden I received a pair bred from the 

 larvae. The larva, the same form as that of complanella, mines in 

 rose-leaves. Schlager found this species at Jena, in May, on 

 fences principally under sloe-bushes. In Tuscany it is not very 

 scarce in May, on sloe-bushes, near Leghorn and Pisa." 



Having now come to the end of Zelier's paper, I would advise 

 all my readers to get the "Linnaea," and read Zelier's own descrip- 

 tions for themselves. They certainly are models of what descrip- 

 tions ought to be ; and the plan of mentioning at first what peculiar 

 character distinguishes each species from its congeners saves much 

 time to the entomologist, who, having met with a new species, 

 wishes to find if it has been described by Zeller. I observe we 

 are promised in the next volume of the " Linnaea" a monograph 

 by Zeller of the genus Colcophora, corresponding to our Porrectaria, 

 and a portion of the genus Jstyages, the appearance of which will 

 be anxiously looked for by a large number of entomologists in this 

 country. 



