Ornix Meleagripennella and its Allies. 87 



name of Logunella. The specimen from which this description 

 was made being destitute of cilia, I was at that time not at all 

 aware of its relationship, but in my Catalogue it appears in its 

 proper place, p. 23, after Meleagripennella , In the May number 

 of the Entomologische Zeitung, of the present year, Zeller de- 

 scribes two new species of this group, p. 161, under the names of 

 Torquillella and Finitimella. Amplialella, the very beautiful new 

 species discovered last year by Herr Mann, at Fiume, will pro- 

 bably be described in the Publications of the Imperial Academy 

 of Vienna ; but the knowledge that it is there described will be 

 small consolation to Entomologists, to whom such a work is 

 almost unattainable. It is a great pity but that Herr Mann had 

 sent his descriptions of new species to the Stettin Society, to ap- 

 pear in its widely-circulated Zeitung. 



I briefly recapitulate the generic characters, as given by Zeller 

 in the Linnsea. 



Ornix (Tr.), Z. 



Caput lanatum. Palpi labiales squamis appressis, fasciculo pilo- 

 rum nullo. 



Readily distinguished from the genera, Gracilaria and Coriscium, 

 by the woolly head, by the labial palpi being destitute of a tuft of 

 hairs, and by the broader anterior wings. 



In their general appearance and mode of sitting, the insects are 

 at once recognised as allied to Gracilaria. 



Treitschke's observations on the larva and pupa (which were 

 communicated to him by Fischer-von-Roslerstamm) appear to 

 me most appropriately appended here, since we are at present 

 unable to attach them to any one species, though future observa- 

 tions may enable us to do so. " The fourteen-footed larva feeds 

 in September in the united leaves, or the turned-down edges of 

 leaves, and certainly always on the underside, of mountain ash, 

 blackthorn, and birch. It is yellow-green, almost transparent, 

 with hardly perceptible little warts of the same colour. The head 

 likewise, with brown spots on the sides. The similarly coloured 

 thorax has two stronger, and two fainter brown spots. The claws 

 are brown, spotted. 



" At the end of September or in October it shuts itself up in 

 its habitation, for which purpose it weaves therein a narrower and 

 firm brownish case. Before winter it changes into a thin, very 

 long pupa, which is at first yellow, and afterwards becomes grey- 

 brown, and has long leg and tongue sheaths reaching beyond the 

 anus." 



