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SWAMMERDAMIA GRISEOCAIUTELLA. [PlaTE II. FiG. 1 



this species, and possibly the locali- 

 ties he quotes, Bohemia, Saxony, 

 Glogau and Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 

 also belong to it, Frey describes 

 also the green larva as the larva of 

 his CcBsiella. Madame Lienig found 

 the birch-feeding larva in Livonia. 



Synonymy. 

 First briefly described as distinct 

 from Ccesiella by Stainton in his 

 " Supplementaiy Catalogue of Bri- 

 tish Tineidfe," under the name of 

 Tinea griseocapitella ; described by 

 him more fully in his volume of 

 the " Insecta Britannica," under the 

 name of Sicammerdamia griseo- 

 capitella. Fischer, in his "Abbild- 

 ungen," figures and describes the 

 larva of this species under the name 

 of Lita Ileroldella, and some of his 

 remarks on the imago evidently 

 apply to it, as, for instance, " the 

 small dark spot on the inner margin 

 towards the anal angle ;" but " the 

 snowy head and thoiax," unless 

 Griseocapitella assumes a different 

 aspect on the Continent, appear to 

 point manifestly to the hawthorn- 

 feeding Ccesiella. Fischer's descrip- 

 tion of the larva had already appeared 

 in Treitschke's " Schmetterlinge von 

 Europa." The same larva is also 

 described by Frey as that of Sicam- 

 merdamia ccesiella in his " Tineen 

 und Ptcrophoren der Schweiz." 

 Herrich-Schiiffer figures and de- 

 scribes the insect as Swammerdamia 

 griseocapitella ; but he is wrong in 

 saying " wings narrower than in 

 Cerasiella, the posterior whiter," 



i-apporte assurement k cette espece, 

 et il se pent que les localites qu'il 

 lui assigne, la Bohcme, la Saxonie, 

 Glogau et Frank for t-sur-l'Oder, ap- 

 partiennent aussi a la Griseocapi- 

 tella. F'rey decrit aussi la chenille 

 verte comme celle de sa Ccesiella, et 

 Madame Lienig a trouve en Livonie 

 la chenille du bouleau. 



Synonymie. 

 Stainton a d'abord decrit cette 

 espece brievement, comme distincte 

 de la Ccesiella, dans son "Catalogue 

 Supplementaire des Tineides Britan- 

 uiques," sous le nom de Tinea gri- 

 seocapitella ; il Fa decrite plus en 

 detail dans son volume des "Insecta 

 Britannica," sous le nom de Swam- 

 merdamia griseocapitella. Fischer 

 dans ses " Abbildungen" figure et de- 

 crit la chenille de cette espece sous le 

 nom de Lita Heroldella, et quelques 

 i-emarques qu'il fait a I'egard du 

 papillon s'y appliquent aussi, comme 

 par exemple " la petite tache foncee 

 sur le bord interne vers I'angle anal ;" 

 mais si la Griseocapitella ne pre- 

 sente pas un aspect bien different 

 des notres sur le Continent, "la tete 

 et le corselet d'un blanc de neige" 

 parnitra indiquer assurement I'espece 

 de I'aubepine, la Casiclla. La de- 

 scription que donne Fischer de la 

 chenille avait deja paru dans les 

 "Schmetterlinge von Europa" de 

 Treitschke. La meme chenille est 

 decrite par Frey dans ses " Tineen 

 und Pterophoren der Schweiz," 

 comme celle de la Sicammerdamia 

 ccesiella. Ilerrich-Schiitttr figure 

 et decrit cette espece sous le nom 

 de Sicammerdamia griseocapitella, 



