a Genus of Tineidce. 129 



" In Germany in many localities not scarce ; at Vienna, Augs- 

 burg, Regensburg (Ratisbon), Berlin, Frankfort, Glogau, Breslau ; 

 also in Hungary, Livonia, Sweden and France. It flies principally 

 in the autumn in alder and oakwoods, also singly after hybernation 

 at the end of April." 



I have copied the above description from Zeller, for fear of 

 unintentionally making some strange mistake in confusing this 

 species and inconstans. 



I have two specimens which I am inclined to think are truly 

 identical with the continental elongella; one of these is var. d, 

 a variety which I have not yet found in inconstans. 



Zeller has a Gracilaria Roscipennella which he places imme- 

 diately after elongella, and which he considers distinct from the 

 above mentioned var. d ; it was only known to him as a single 

 specimen in the collection of Fischer v. R., taken in Switzerland ; 

 he describes it thus :* " Anterior wings pale yellow, with many 

 brownish spots ; the apical cilia externally brown ; the four ante- 

 rior tibiae black-brown ;" and he lays most stress upon this last 

 character. 



I have not deemed it advisable to enumerate this myself as a 

 distinct species. 



Sp. 11. Rufipennella, Hiibner. 

 " Alis anticis rufis, postice purpurascentibus ; femoribus tibiisque 

 quatuor anterioribus nigro-fuscis, femorum posticorum basi 

 albida." 

 Rufipennella, Hub. Tin. 204 ; Tr. ix. 2, S. 198 ; x. 3, S. 297 ; 



Zeller, Linn. Ent. ii. 331 (non Steph.) 

 " Smaller than Stigmatella, hardly as large as Franckella ; 

 nearest allied to elongella, but differing from it by its smaller size, 

 broader anterior wings, darker femora and tibiae, and the whitish 

 spot at the base of the hinder tibiae." 

 " Expansion of the wings 5\ lines." 



" Head rust-red ; face paler ; palpi rust- red, inwardly pale yel- 

 lowish ; antennae faintly annulated yellowish and grey ; thorax 

 rust-red; abdomen grey, beneath shining whitish; the four an- 

 terior legs have the femora and tibiae black brown, with a violet 

 gloss, with whitish spots, tarsi shining silvery white, with the ends 

 of the joints brown ; the posterior legs have the apex of the 



* Isis, 1839, S. 209; Linn. Ent. ii. 338. 

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