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LAVERXA PHRAGMITELLA. [PlATE IV. FiG. 1. 



Synonymy. 

 First cle?cril)e(l liy Slaiuton in 

 1851, in liis " Sui)i)leineiitary Cata- 

 logue of British Tineida^ and Ptero- j 

 phoridffi," under the name of Lim- 

 ncBcia phragmitella, a new genus 

 having been constituted for the re- 

 ception of this insect, of which at 

 that time only two worn specimens 

 were known ; in his volume of the 

 " Insecta Britannica," Staintou re- 

 ferred it to the genus Laverna, 

 though no doubt the species is 

 rather abnormal in that genus ; and 

 in the "Entomologist's Annual" 

 for 1858, the insect having then 

 been taken in some plenty, he gave 

 an improved description of the 

 imago. Fx*ey next described it in 

 his Monograph of the genus La- 

 verna, in the 14th volume of the 

 " Linnaea Entomologica ;" and Von 

 Ileyden has described the larva in 

 the "Stettin. Ent.Zeitung" for 1863, 

 p. 111. 



Synonymie. 

 Decrite pour la picmiere fois en 

 1851 par Stainton dans sou "Sup- 

 plementary Catalogue of British 

 Tineidse and Pterophoridfe," sous le 

 nom de LimncEcia lihraymitella, un 

 nouveau genre ayant ete constitue 

 pour la reception de cette espece, 

 dont on ne counaissait alors que 

 deux individus en mauvais etat ; 

 dans son volume des " Insecta Bri- 

 tannica" Stainton I'a rapportee au 

 genre Laverna, quoique I'insecte soit 

 sans doute un pen anormal dans ce 

 genre, et dans F " Entomologist's 

 Annual" pour 1858, il donna uue 

 description plus detaillee du papillon, 

 qu'on avait i:)ris alors en assez grande 

 quantite. Ensuite Frey a decrit 

 I'insecte dans son Monographe du 

 genre Laverna dans le quatorzieme 

 volume de la " Linntea Entomolo- 

 gica," et Von Heyden a decrit la 

 chenille dans la " Stettin. Ent. Zei- 

 tung." pour 1863, a p. 111. 



Hence the synonymy is as fol- 

 lows : — 

 Limncecia j)hragmitella — 



Stainton, Snpp. Cat. Brit, Tin, and Pteroph. p 

 Laverna j^hrogmitella — 



Stainton, Ins. Brit. Lep. Tin. p. 238. 



Ent. Annual, 1858, p. 110, fig. 2. 

 Frey, Linna^a Entomologica, xiv. p. 194. 

 Von Heyden, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1863, p. 111. 



La synonymie en sera ainsi comme 

 suit: — 



