IN ITALY AND SICILY IN 1844. 5 



(E. chenopodiella, Hb. One male and two females on the 9th, 10th, 

 and 17th of May near Syracuse, on cultivated parts of Acradina 

 and Neapolis. They belong- to a very dark variety. 



(E. gravatella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 23.] I took five specimens 

 (4 tf , 1 $ ) near Messina on the north side of Castellaccio, starting 

 them out of dry grass on the 23rd and 25th of July. 



One male (rather different) was taken on the 14th of September 

 on the Karst at Trieste. 



(E. dissitella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 24.] A pair taken on the 

 25th and 26th of April near Syracuse on meadows round the 

 Syraca. 



(E. tributella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 25.] I took a fine pair of 

 this plainly marked species on the 4th of May near Syracuse in 

 grass on the weedy slopes of the ancient Neapolis. 



(E. terrenella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 25.] I collected six speci- 

 mens (one of which is a female) in dry grass on the Castellaccio 

 near Messina on the 22nd, 23rd, and 26th of July. On the 28th 

 of August I took a male near Rome, in the Campagna towards 

 Albano, likewise in a dry grassy place ; it has the anterior wings 

 brighter and more shining, and the posterior wings of a more violet- 

 grey ; but, from its other characters, I cannot look upon it as a dis- 

 tinct species. 



(E. roscidella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 26.] I beat several specimens 

 from young oak trees on the 15th and 19th of August near Naples 

 above the Lake of Agnano and at Camaldoli. 



\_(E. oleella, Boyer, which is not enumerated in the ' Tsis ' of 1847, 

 is thus mentioned in the Ent. Zeit. 1850, p. 148 : " I have my- 

 self taken a fine male at Syracuse, on the 21st of June."] 



Hyponomeuta malinellus, Z. A bad specimen, with no cilia, taken on 

 the 16th of August in the vicinity of Camaldoli near Naples ; it 

 flew beneath a large apple-tree. The wings appear narrower than 

 in the ordinary malinellus. 



H. Evonymi, Z. On the same day I beat a specimen from a spindle 

 bush on the hill at Antignano near Naples. It is smaller than 

 the specimen of malinellus and less worn ; on the underside of the 

 anterior wings is a very fine white line on the costa before the 

 apex. 



Psecadia sexpunctdla, Hb. On the 25th of April I found a male 

 which was drowned in a cattle -trough near the Temple of Jupiter 

 at Syracuse. 



P. echiella, S. Y. On a species of Ecliium I found a small larva 

 near Syracuse on the 12th of May, but did not breed it. 



Depressaria assimilella, Tr. I caught a specimen on the 15th of 

 August to the south of the Lake of Agnano in the chestnut- wood, 

 on the borders of which the food of the larva (Spartium scoparium) 

 grows abundantly. 



It is a rather large male, with very pale anterior wings, on 

 which the two black spots arc quite distinct ; but the dark blotch 



