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COLEOPHORA JUNCICOLELLA. [PLATE I. FlG. 1, 



une tache d'un brunatre fonce. 



Geographical Distribution. 

 This insect is probably very widely 

 distributed, though, from its small 

 size and retired habits, it is readily 

 overlooked. 



In 1850 it was simultaneously de- 

 tected near Dover by Mr. Douglas 

 and at Kilmun by myself. Sub- 

 sequently, on the discovery by Herr 

 Schmid of the habit of tbe larva, 

 the insect has been observed by no 

 means scarce at West Wickham ; 

 near Bristol it occurs sparingly on 

 Durdham and Leigh Downs ; it also 

 occurs near Shrewsbury ; further 

 north it occurs at Bidston Hill, 

 Cheshire, and near Manchester, also 

 near Scarborough, on Seamer Moor 

 and Cloughton Moor. Mr. Logan 

 once met with it in Torwood, Stirling- 

 shire. 



On the Continent it occurs at 

 Frankfort-on-the-Main, at Ratisbon, 

 and in Switzerland at Zurich and 

 Wiirenlos. 



Synonymy. 

 First described by Stainton in his 

 " Supplementary Catalogue of British 

 Tineidae" in 1851, under the name of 

 Coleophora juncicolella t and re- de- 

 scribed by the same author two years 

 later under the same name in the 

 " Insecta Britannica." At the close 

 of 1853 Herrich-Schaflfer gave a 

 representation, intended for the case 

 of this species, on his 87th plate of 

 Tineides. The text containing his 

 description of the insect to which 



La Distribution Geographique. 



Cet insecte presente probablement 

 une distribution geographique d'une 

 etendue assez considerable, mais par 

 suite de sa petitesse, et ses mceurs 

 cachees, il echappe facilement a l'ob- 

 servation. 



En 1850 il fut simultanement 

 trouve pres de Douvres par M. 

 Douglas et a Kilmun par moi-meme. 

 Plus tard, lorsque M. Schmid en 

 avait decouvert la chenille, cette 

 espece a ete trouvee assez commune- 

 ment a West Wickham ; pres de 

 Bristol elle se trouve en petite 

 quantite a Durdham Downs et a 

 Leigh Downs ; elle a aussi ete 

 trouvee pres de Shrewsbury ; plus 

 vers le Nord elle se rencontre a Bid- 

 ston Hill, Cheshire, et pres de Man- 

 chester, aussi sur Seamer Moor et 

 Cloughton Moor pres de Scarbo- 

 rough. M. Logan l'a une fois 

 trouve a Torwood, en Stirlingshire. 



Sur le Continent elle a ete ob- 

 servee a Frankfort-sur-le-Mein, a 

 Ratisbonne, et en Suisse a Zurich et 

 a Wiirenlos. 



La Synonymic 

 Decrite d'abord par Stainton dans 

 son "Supplementary Catalogue of 

 British Tineidae" en 1851, sous le 

 nom ^e Coleophora juncicolella, et 

 decrite encore deux annees plus tard 

 par cet auteur, sous le meme nom 

 dans 1' " Insecta Britannica." Vers 

 la fin de 1853 Herrich-SchaflFer 

 figura le fourreau de cette espece 

 dans la planche No. 87 de ses Ti- 

 neides. Le texte contenant la de- 

 scription de l'insecte auquel ce four- 



