10 SPECIES COLLECTED BY PROFESSOR ZELLER 



stems when the weather is quite bright and calm. Thus on the 

 22nd of April, 1837, I obtained seventeen specimens in a short 

 time from the trunks of a few oak trees close together ; most of 

 them, however, were already much wasted. 



I took my two Sicilian specimens at Messina on the 26th and 

 27th of February in two different places, beating them from the 

 dry leaves of oak bushes ( Quercus pubescens) ; they had evidently 

 hybernated. No doubt the species is there double -brooded. 



G. salinella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 37.] This species is very 

 plentiful near Syracuse in the salt parts of the marsh near the 

 great Harbour, amongst the Salicornia, which grows there in large 

 patches. 



It flies readily, especially on cloudy days or towards evening, 

 but is very nimble, and when it settles again immediately runs 

 down the plant to the ground, where it generally escapes ob- 

 servation till it again takes wing. It appears at the end of 

 April and in May. In windy weather or during sunshine, I 

 usually only saw it as it flew out and then vanished. Already 

 by the middle of May the specimens were mostly in bad condition. 



G. remissella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 39.] I took one speci- 

 men at Syracuse on the 9th of May in a grassy ravine of the slope 

 of Neapolis ; on the llth of July I took a second at Messina in 

 grass on a hill along the Palermitane Strasse. Hence, in all pro- 

 bability, the species is double-brooded. 



G. diminuteUa, n. sp. [Described, see p. 40.] This little moth 

 flew on the CasteUaccio hill at Messina on the 23rd, 26th, and 

 27th of July, in company with CEcophora terrenella, gravatella, 

 Elachista Dohrnii, and Phycis cantenerella ; it was scarce. 



[Of a species allied to diminuteUa, which Staudinger described 

 in the * Stettin, ent. Zeitung'for 1859, p. 241, as Gelechia promp- 

 tella, Professor Zeller took a specimen near Syracuse on the 23rd 

 of May.] 



G. nigrinotella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 40.] I took a single spe- 

 cimen on the 26th of July from oak-leaves on a lava-waste at 

 Yieranni, above Catania, at the foot of Etna. 



G. nigritella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 41.] I took a single male 

 on the 3rd of April, high up the mountains near Messina, on the 

 southern slope of a hill, amongst wild lupin. 



G. anthyllidella, Hb. I took two males on the 12th of May, near 

 Syracuse, on the slopes of the ancient Neapolis, in the grass. 

 They differ slightly from our German specimens, but not suffi- 

 ciently so to allow me to repute them a different species. They 

 are not larger than our smallest specimens. In the best speci- 

 men the costal spot of the anterior wings is almost pure white. 

 In both, the face and palpi are whiter ; on the terminal joint of 

 the palpi the edge and the longitudinal line on the inner side are 

 still finer and of a paler blackish. The length of the palpi and 

 form of the hind wings are quite the same as in our specimens. 



