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VII. A feiu Observations on the Synonymy of Tinea (r") 

 alpicella^ and Zelleria saxifragse, (n. sp.). By 

 H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., V.P. Ent. Soc, &c. 



[Read 17th February, 1868.] 



In the collection of European Micro-Lepidoptera received 

 from Herr Mann, of Vienna, in 1849, were two specimens 

 of an insect sent as Gljcophora alpicella, F, v. R. Believing 

 this to be then undescribed, I gave the following brief 

 description of it in the Appendix to my Supplementary 

 Catalogue, published in 1851 — thus, at p. 18 : — 



" Tinea ALPICELLA {OEcophora! alpicella, (F.v.R.),Mann 

 in litt.) . Perhaps hardly a true Tinea, the palpi too long 

 and slender ; anterior wings white, with some fuscous 

 scales along the subcostal and subdorsal nervures, and 

 the nervures at the apex of the wing also marked with 

 dark scales; on the disk before the middle of the wing 

 is an oblique pale fuscous streak, and a spot of the same 

 colour at the end of the discoidal cell ; cilia white, with 

 some black and fuscous scales towards the apex. Exp. 

 7 lines." 



From better-marked specimens I now see that I might 

 have added, that the oblique pale fuscous streak before 

 the middle is continued along the fold to the base of the 

 wing. 



In the same year, Herrich-Schiiffer figured the same 

 insect as Alpicella, No. 359 ; — the oblique streak before 

 the middle and the breadth of the anterior wings clearly 

 represent the above-mentioned insect. 



The letter-press treating of the insect figured did not 

 appear till 1855, and by that time Dr. Herrich-Schaflfer 

 had become acquainted with another insect, which, 

 though generically quite distinct, he confused with the 

 original alpicella, apparently reputing it the female. 

 At the commencement of his description, vol. v., p. 

 282, he says : — " On the anterior wings are ill-defined 

 pale brown spots, a longer one in the medial longi- 

 tudinal line before the middle, obliquely below it more to 

 the base one in the fold, and one beyond it at two-thirds of 

 the length of the wing.^^ All this, especially the charac- 

 ters printed it italics, points conclusively to the species 

 figured in his work and described in my Supplementary 

 Catalogue. 



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