4 SPECIES COLLECTED BY PKOFESSOE ZELLEK 



the month its period of flight is over for the year. It occurs 

 also near Messina, probably first in May. 



N. mollellus, Tr. I took a single female near Syracuse on the 30th 

 April on a flower in the road towards the peninsula Magnisi. 



Plutella cruciferarum, Z. Everywhere round Messina and Syracuse 

 throughout the entire spring and summer in fields and grassy places. 

 At Messina, on the sunny slope of the Castellaccio, I took a this 

 year's specimen as early as the 9th of February, at a spot where 

 much Clypeola maritima was growing. 



At Naples I took a specimen on the 18th of August. 



Ypsolophus verbascellus, S. Y. I found the larvae in the spring at 

 Messina high up the mountains, abundant on a species of Verbas- 

 cum which is common there. In habits they were quite similar to 

 those we find in Germany. At Syracuse I took the imago singly 

 and scarce in May and June. At Messina a small male, which 

 had not flown, on the 25th July. Hence this species is there, as 

 with us, double -brooded. 



Y. exustellus, n. sp. [Described, see p. 21.] I took a pair of this 

 species at Syracuse on dry limestone near the Capuchin Monas- 

 tery on the 17th and 21st of June ; three specimens, which all 

 appear to be females, I took in the Campagna to the south of Rome 

 in dry grass on the 28th of August. Its habit was similar to that 

 of Y. humerettus. 



Y. striateUiis, S. Y. Not scarce near Syracuse on the western slope 

 of the ancient Neapolis, which is clothed with small weeds of all 

 sorts, in places where Rumex bucepTialopliorus grew abundantly, 

 in May and the beginning of June. I took a pale specimen on the 

 24th of April. [The dark variety is described, see p. 22.] 



At Glogau I once met with the species in plenty at the end of 

 May in a sandy field covered with llumex acetosella ; but it is most 

 plentiful, as already mentioned in the ' Isis,' on the flowers of Tana- 

 cetum vulgare. 



Anchinia brevispinella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 22.] This flies near 

 Syracuse on the slopes and meadows of the ancient Neapolis, not 

 very scarce in grass at the end of April and throughout May ; it 

 has the habits of Anchinia bicostella. 



(Ecophora LewenJioekella, S. Y. A fine female taken on the 15th of 

 April near Messina in the grass of a mountain-field. It is of the 

 usual size and markings ; the cilia of the hind margin are at basal 

 half purple- coloured, those of the costa violet. 



(EcopJiora KnocJiella, Tr. ; (E. punctivittella, Costa, p. 14, tab. 5. f. 1 . 

 I took two males and one female on the 26th of June at the foot 

 of Mount Etna above Catania at Trecastagne in an oak bush on 

 lava-ashes; I found a small female together with a male at 

 Camaldoli near Naples on the 16th of August on the blossom of 

 yarrow, and took two other small males in the pass of Itri on the 

 23rd of August, and in the Campagna to the north of Rome on 

 the 3rd of September. Hence it appears to be double-brooded. 



