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TIIIC GENUS I'SIX'ADIA, 



Pidviiizt'ii iU's KussiscliC'ii Kciclis," 

 (>r Phalaiui pip-aust(t, an insect 

 wliicli, (lioiiLrh luii'fly dos<;ril)cd in 

 1794 by Tluinberg umlcr the name 

 of Tinea atropujictelln, was then 

 lost sight of for about fifty years. 

 Fabrieius next descMibed, in 1775, 

 in hi- " Systema Entoniologia3," 

 AlucUa bipunctclla, which the fol- 

 lowing year was named Tinea 

 cchiclla by the authors of the 

 Vienna Catalogue, showing us that 

 at that early date the food of the 

 larva was already known, and also 

 that of its congener, from the Litho- 

 spcrmum, only these writers mis- 

 took that species for the Sequella 

 of Llnne. Roemer in 1789 figured 

 this species of the LitJiospermum 

 luider the name of Tinea pusiella, 

 thinking it the Pnsiclla of Linue ; 

 unfortunately the Linneau descrip- 

 tion of Pit Stella has never been 

 unravelled. Both these species ap- 

 j)ear to have figured in Hiibner's 

 '' Beitriige," a work I have never 

 seen. Rossi in his " Fauna Etrusca" 

 described a Tinea HochcnwartieUa, 

 which is identical with the Fabrician 

 Bipunctclla. Fabrieius in his 

 " ^lantissa " described Funcrella, 

 Init as a Tinea, and very far re- 

 mo\ed from his Alucita bipunc- 

 tella. 



Iliibucr in his " Sammlung Euro- 

 paischer Schmetterlinge" figured 

 amongst the Tinece six species, 

 Fiinerclla, Litliosperniella, Echi- 

 ella, Auriftuclla (already figured 

 amongst the Bomhyces as B. py- 

 rausta), Deccmguttella and Sex- 

 pnnctella; and also figured the 

 larva3 of TAthospermclla and Echi- 

 clla in his "GeschichteEuropiiischer 



"Voyages en j)liisii'urs Provinces de 

 la IJussie," de la J'//(il(cna pyransta, 

 insecte que Thunbcrg a brieve- 

 ment decrit en 1794, sous le noin de 

 Tinea atropunctella, niais iiui dr- 

 l)uis a etc tout-:i-fait oublie j)our a 

 pcu pres cinquante ans. Fabrieius 

 a decrit en 1775, dans son " Systema 

 Entomologias," Alucita bipunctclla, 

 qui I'annee suivante fut nommee 

 Tinea cchiclla par les au tours du 

 Catalogue Viennois, ce qui nous 

 montre qu'on avait deja decouvert 

 la nourriture de sa chenille; ils out 

 connu aussi la chenille de I'espece 

 voisine qui se nourrit du Lithospcr- 

 mum, mais ils out fait I'erreur de la 

 prendre pour la Sequella de Liune. 

 Roemer en 1789 figura Tcspece du 

 Lithospcrmuni sous le nom de Tinea 

 ])usiclla, en la croyant la Pusiclla 

 deLinne; maisjusqu'u ce jour on u'a 

 jamais su interpreter correctemeut 

 la description Linneenne de la 

 Pusiclla. II parait que ces deux 

 especes out etc figurees par Hiibner 

 dans son "Beitriige," ouvrage queje 

 n'ai jamais vu. Rossi dans sa" Fauna 

 Etrusca" decrivit une Tinea Hoch- 

 cnwartieUa, qui est la memo que la 

 Bipunctclla de Fabrieius. Fabrieius 

 dans sa "Mantissa" decrivit la Fu- 

 ncrella, mais comme une Tinea, et 

 bien eloiguee de son Alucita bi- 

 punctclla. 



Hiibner daus sa "Sammlung Eu- 

 ropiiischer Schmetterlinge" figurait 

 parmi les Tinece six especes: la Fu- 

 nerella, la Lithosperniclla, VEchi- 

 ella, VAuriJitiella (qu'il avait deja 

 figuree parmi les Bombyces sons le 

 nom de Pyransta), la Deccmguttella 

 et la Scxpunctclla, et il a figure de 

 plus les chenilles de la Lithosper- 

 mella etde VEchiella dans sa "Go- 



