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COLEOPHORA VIMINETELLA. [PlATE XVI. FiG. 1. 



London, and is not rare wherever it 

 has been sought in this country. 



Of its distribution on the Conti- 

 nent less can be said, there having 

 been much confusion with regard to 

 the synonymy of this species, but I 

 believe ft has certainly occurred at 

 Vienna, Ratisbon, Frankfort-on-the- 

 Main and Cologne ; likewise in 

 Switzerland near Zurich. 



Synonymy. 

 The earliest mention which we 

 find of this insect is in Treitschke's 

 " Schmetterlinge von Europa," where, 

 under the name of Ornix Lvscinice- 

 pennel/a, a notice is given of the 

 larva of this species; the descrip- 

 tion, however, of the perfect insect 

 wants the necessary precision to 

 enable us to adopt this Treitschkian 

 name as the earliest appellation of 

 this insect. We next find the insect 

 mentioned by Zeller in a note in the 

 4th volume of the *' Linnaea Entomo- 

 logica;" and this author remarks, that 

 '' for this certainly distinct species, 

 which by the peculiarity of the case 

 of the larva niay always be recog- 

 nized, the name Viminetella, proposed 

 by Von Heyden, should be retained." 

 Under the name of Coleophora Vimi- 

 netella, the insect was next described 

 by Stainton in the " Insecta Britan- 

 nica." Herrich-SchafFer in his 

 *' Schmetterlinge von Europa," er- 

 roneously applies to this insect the 

 name of Orbitella, a mistake which 

 was also repeated by Frey in his 

 *' Tineen und Pterophoren der 

 Schweiz." The Orbitella of Zeller 

 is a very different insect. 



Londres, et n'est pas rare partout oh 

 on Ta cherchee chez nous. 



Sur le Continent on ne peut dire 

 autant de sa distribution, puisque la 

 synonymic de cette esp^ce a ete tres- 

 confondue, mais je crois qu'elle se 

 trouve certainement a Vienne, a Ra- 

 tisbonne, a Frankfort-sur-le-Mein et 

 a Cologne, et en Suisse pres de 

 Zurich. 



Synonymie. 

 La premiere indication se rap- 

 portant a cet insecte se trouve dans 

 les " Schmetterlinge von Europa" de 

 Treitschke, qui a parle de sa chenille 

 sous le nom d'Ornix Luscinicepen- 

 nella; cependant la description qu'il 

 a donnee du papillon n'est pas suffi- 

 sarament precise pour nous per- 

 mettre d'adopter ce nom, comme la 

 plus ancienne designation de I'in- 

 secte. Plus tard Zeller parle de 

 cette espece dans une note dans le 

 quatrieme volume de la " Linnaea En- 

 tomologica ;" et cet auteur fait la re- 

 marque que " pour I'espece assure- 

 ment distincte, qu'on doit toujours 

 facilement reconnaitre au fourreau 

 singulier de chenille, on doit retenir 

 le nom de Viminetella propose par Von 

 Heyden." Sous le nom de Coleophora 

 Viminetella Stainton I'a en suite de- 

 crite dans 1' " Insecta Britannica." 

 Herrich-Schaffer, dans ses " Schmet- 

 terlinge von Europa," a eu tort de 

 lui donner le nom d'Orbitella, erreur 

 que Frey a aussi commise dans ses 

 •' Tineen und Pterophoren der 

 Schweiz." VOrbitella de Zeller est 

 une espfece bien distincte. 



