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SPECIES COLLECTED BY PROFESSOR ZELLER 



Coleoplwra Mayrella, Hb. Only one male taken on the 29th of April 

 at Syracuse. 



C. argentipennella, Dup. I took three males and one female, all in 

 good condition, on the 6th of September in the States of the Church, 

 at Tolentino, on a weedy dry hill where there was no heather ; 

 the weather being cloudy, they flew rather readily. 



C. crepidinella. n. sp. [Described, see p. 43.] I took two males 

 and one female (the latter rather smaller) near Syracuse on the 

 19th of May, towards evening, on a grassy flowery footpath be- 

 tween the Anapo and the columns of the temple of Jupiter. 



G. prcecursdla, n. sp. [Described, see p. 44.] This species appears 

 earlier in the season than any other Coleophora I know. It occurs 

 in the neighbourhood of Messina. On the 17th of February, late 

 in the afternoon, I beat a pair from the flower of a rigid grass 

 (named, if I am not mistaken, Arundo mauritanica) and on the 

 26th of February I obtained a female by the sweeping-net. In 

 another part of the mountains I obtained a pair on the 5th of 

 March. Since this grass also grows in other mountainous parts 

 of Italy, the insect probably occurs in other localities. 



C. fretella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 45.] I took a single male 

 specimen in fine condition on the 16th of April amongst short 

 grass on the sandy peninsula of the lighthouse at Messina. 



C. pabulella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 45.] I took a single male 

 at Messina on the 2nd of April in the grass of a vineyard. 



C. devidla, n. sp. [Described, see p. 46.] Three male specimens 

 were taken flying in the forenoon of the 4th of May amongst 

 Juncus acutus in the marshes at Syracuse. 



C. alcyonipennella, Kollar. A beautiful male taken on the 17th of 

 August, near Naples, in the fertile plain to the south of the 

 town amongst Atriplex ; a second specimen, which I saw at the 

 same time, escaped. That captured has the brilliant colouring of 

 our Glogau female specimens. Here we have only found the 

 species in May and June ; hence there is a second brood, at least 

 in the south. 



In this genus there are assuredly a multitude of species in Italy, 

 of which only a minority occur likewise in Germany, if I may 

 judge from my own experience ; of eleven species which I cap- 

 tured, only three occur in Germany. I have only enumerated the 

 foregoing, as it is not advisable to found obscure species in this 

 genus on single or defective specimens. 



Gracilaria lacertella, Fischer v. R. I took two specimens, which do 

 not at all differ from those of Germany, near Messina, on the 13th 

 of March and 3rd of April, in the mountains, accidentally, amongst 

 bushes ; it would seem that its true period of flight there is the 

 end of March. 



Cosmopteryoc argyrogrammos, Z. This species was not scarce about 

 Syracuse, flying in fallow fields in the evening, in the middle of 



