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THE GENUS ANTISPILA. 



Natural Order CoRNACE^. 



Cornus sanguinca 

 C.forida 



Kyssa mult [flora . . 



History of the Study of the Genus. 



A detailed history of Atdispila 

 Rivillei Avas published as far back 

 as IToO (before Liune introduced 

 the biuominal nomenclature, and 

 therefore the insect then bore no 

 scientific name) ; it was not till 

 more than a hundred years after- 

 wards that Ave were able to discover 

 the relationship of the insect de- 

 scribed by Godeheu de Riville in 

 his letter to Reaumui', and which 

 that observer published in the first 

 volume of the " Memoires de Mathe- 

 matique et de Physique, presentcs a 

 I'Acadcmie Koyale des Sciences." 



Hiibner, in his " Sammlung Euro- 

 pliischer Schmetterlinge," figured 

 one of the present genus under the 

 name of Tinea Pfeifferella, No. 398. 

 Haworth, in his " Lepidoptera Bri- 

 tannica," described the same species 

 as Tinea rpiadrignttella. Stephens 

 recognized the identity of Ilaworth's 

 Q^iadriguttella with Hiibner's 

 Pfeifferella, and placed the insect 

 under the latter name at the end of 

 his genus Microsctia. Zeller, in 

 the "Isis" of 1839, referred this 

 insect to the genus E lac his fa. 



Fischer von Roslerstamni, in the 

 last plate of his beautiful work, in- 

 troduced to us a second species of 

 this genus, Elachista Treitschhiella; 

 and Staintou, in his volume of the 



. Pfeifferella and Treitschhiella. 

 Cornifoliella. 

 ^i/ssafoliella. 



Histoire de I'Etude du Genre. 



Une histoire detaillce de VAnti- 

 spila Rivillei fut publiee deja en 

 1750 (avant que Linne eut introduit 

 la nomenclature binome, et conse- 

 quemraent I'insecte ne portait pas 

 alors un nom scientifique) — il a fallu 

 que plus de cent ans s'ecoulassent 

 avant que nous ayons pu decouvrir 

 les rapports de I'insecte que Godeheu 

 de Riville a decrit dans sa lettre a 

 Reaumur, que cet observateur a 

 publiee dans le premier volume des 

 " iSIemoires de Mathematique et de 

 Physique, presentes a I'Academie 

 Royale des Sciences." 



Hiibner dans sa " Sammlung Eu- 

 ro2)iiischer Schmetterlinge" a figure 

 uue espece du genre dont nous trai- 

 tons sous le nom de Tinea Pfeiffer- 

 ella, No. 398. Ilaworth dans ses 

 "Lepidoptera Britannica" a decrit 

 la memo esjiece sous le nom do Tinea 

 quadrignttella. Stephens areconnu 

 I'identite de la Quadrignttella de 

 Haworth a^-ec la Pfeiff^erella de 

 Hiibner, et a place I'insecte sous ce 

 dernier nom a la fin de son genre 

 Microsetia. Zeller dans ]'"Isis" de 

 1839 rapporta I'insecte au genre 

 Elachista. 



Fischer von Roslerstanmi, dans la 

 derniere planche de son bel ouvrage, 

 nous introduit a une seconde espece 

 de ce genre, V Elachista Treitsch- 

 hiella, et Staintou dans son volume 



