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May 28th, 1850, June 2nd, 1852, June 9th, 1848, in cop., at Becken- 

 ham. In confinement, imagines emerged April 5th-17th, 1853, March 

 22nd-30th, April 18th-19th, 1854, at Lewisham. Nolcken notes the 

 capture of larvae at Umbaid on September 3rd and 8th, 1865 ; whilst 

 Sorhagen gives the larvae as occurring in July, and again in September- 

 October, in Germany. Threlfall bred the imagines in April and 

 May, 1888, from larvae obtained October 1st, 1887, at Bowdon in 

 Cheshire. 



LOCALITIES. ABERDEEN: Pitcaple, not rare (Reid). CHESHIRE: Bowdon 

 (Threlfall). CAMBRIDGE: Cambridge (Farren). DERBY: Burton (Sang). DEVON: 

 Haldon and Coombe Lane (Jordan). DORSET : Purbeck (Bankes), Wey mouth 

 (Richardson). DUBLIN: Clontarf (Birchall), Howth (Shield). DURHAM: Darling- 

 ton (Stainton). GLOUCESTER : Bristol (Stainton). HEREFORD : Tarrington (Wood). 

 ISLE OF WIGHT: (Stainton). KENT: West Wickham (Stainton), Beckenham 

 (Bedell), Lewisham (Bosver). LANCASHIRE: Preston, Grange (Threlfall), Man- 

 chester (Stainton). NORFOLK : North Runcton (Barrett), King's Lynn, common 

 (Atmore). PERTH : Aberfoyle (Evans). SURREY : Mickleham (Stainton), Hasle- 

 mere (Barrett). SUSSEX : Bersted, Bognor, Eastbourne, Worthing, common in 

 hedges of elm (Fletcher), Brighton (Elisha). WESTMORLAND : Witherslack 

 (Hodgkinson). YORKSHIRE: Doncaster (Corbett), Richmond (Sang), York (Hind). 



DISTRIBUTION. Austria : Vienna (Fischer von Rosslerstamm). 

 Denmark: Copenhagen (Bang-Haas). France: Cannes (Milliere), 

 Saone-et-Loire (Constant), Nohaut (Sand). Germany : generally 

 distributed (Heinemann and Wocke), Glogau (Zeller), Frankfort-on- 

 Main (Heyden), Berlin, Potsdam, Havelland, Hamburg, Halle 

 (Sorhagen), Alt Damm, Friedland (Hering). Italy : Piedmont (Curo), 

 Turin (Ghiliani), ? Leghorn and Montenero (Mann, who records 

 aurdla from elm). Netherlands : generally distributed (Snellen). 

 Russia: Umbaid, nr. Pichtendahl (Nolcken). Scandinavia: Scania 

 (Wallengren). Switzerland: nr. Zurich (Frey). 



NEPTICULA ALNETELLA, Stainton (nee Heinemann). 



:MY. Species : Alnetella, Sta., "Ent. Ann.," 1856, pp. 43-44 

 ii,, p. 437 (1859) ; " Nat. Hist. Tin.," vii., p. 220, pi. x., fig. 3 (1862) ; Frey, 



SYNONYMY. Species : Alnetella, Sta., " Ent. Ann.," 1856, pp. 43-44 ; "Man., 



vii., p. 220, pi. x., fig. 

 Linn. Ent.," xi., p. 437 (1857) ; Staud. and Wocke, " Cat.," p. 337, in part (1871) ; 



Nolcken, " Lep. Fn. Est.," p. 771 (1871); Mill., "Cat. Lep. Alp. Mar.," p. 372 

 (1875) ; Hein. and Wocke, " Schmett. Deutsch.." p. 745 (1877) ; Sand, " Cat. 

 Lep. Auv.," p. 201 (1879) ; Wallgrn., "Ent. Tids.," ii., p. 128 (1881) ; Bang-Haas, 

 " N. H. Tids.," xiii., p. 217 (1881) ; Snellen, " De Vlinders," etc., p. 989 (1882) ; 



Peyer., "Cat. Lep. Alsace." 2nd Ed., ii., p. 164 (1882); Curo, "Bull. Soc. Ent. 



lei " 



eit.," lii.. p. 220 (1891) ; Meyrick, " Handbook," etc., p. 71 

 (1895) ; nee Hein., " Wien. Monats.," 1862, p. 266 [\\hich=rubescens, Hein., " Bed. 



Ital.," xv., p. 109 (1883) ; Sorhagen, " Die Kleinschmett. Brandbg.," p. "305 (1886) ; 

 Hering, " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," lii.. p. 220 (1891) ; Meyrick, " Handbook," etc., p. 719 



Ent. Zeits.,"p. 214 (1871)]. 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. Alis anticis saturate aureo-brunneis, dorso 

 basim versus dilute aureo-brunneo, apice nigrescente, fascia paullo 

 post medium parum obliqua argentea splendidissima ; capillis ferru- 

 gineis. Exp. al. 2-2 lin. Head and face reddish-yellow ; palpi 

 whitish ; antennae fuscous, basal joint whitish. Anterior wings deep 

 golden-brown, shading off to a pale golden-brown on the inner margin 

 near the base ; a little beyond the middle is a rather oblique silvery 

 fascia, extremely brilliant (more so than in N. marfjinicolella)', apical 

 portion of the wing dark purple, almost black ; cilia dark fuscous. 

 Posterior wings grey, with grey cilia (Stainton, Entomologist's Annual, 

 1856, p. 43). 



IMAGO. Head ferruginous. Anterior wings 4-5 mm. in expanse, 

 of a deep golden-brown colour, shading off into a pale golden-brown 



