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May, around thistles and in the grass along with Oelechiaflammella. 

 From that species, which flies briskly in a zigzag way, argyro- 

 grammos was readily distinguished by its weaker, more hovering 

 flight, more like that of a Gracilaria. Unfortunately I have not 

 observed its position in repose. Single specimens still occurred in 

 June. I also took a few specimens at Home at the end of August ; 

 hence it is double-brooded. The eyes, when alive, are of a glow- 

 ing blood-red ; in dried specimens they are brown. 



[Supplementary description already given in the 'Tineina of 

 Syria and Asia Minor,' p. 9.J 



Elachista testaceella, Hb. One male taken 011 the 6th of June near 

 Syracuse on the far side of the Anapo, amongst moist meadows. 

 It is smaller than usual, and has the ground-colour of the thorax 

 and the anterior wings more yellowish ; in other respects it pos- 

 sesses all the characters of the species. 



E. Dohrnii, n. sp. [Described, see p. 46.] I took several specimens 

 in the latter half of July, late in the afternoon, amongst dry grass 

 on the Castellaccio hill, near Messina. When started out they 

 flew for a short distance and then settled again on the ground 

 amongst the grass, and turned themselves round like Elachista 

 pomposdla, only not so briskly. 



E. magnificella, Fischer v. R. [Brunnichella, L.]. I took by chance 

 a single male at Messina on the 20th of March on the hill of the 

 Castello Gonzaga in the grass, in a spot where many Papiliona- 

 cece were growing. 



E. nigrella, Hb. Three males taken on the mountains near Messina 

 on the 18th of March ; they were flying on a weedy slope late in 

 the afternoon quite in the style of our German nigrella. [Some 

 minute points of difference are then given, see p. 47.] 



E. contaminatella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 48.] I took three speci- 

 mens in the evening of the 23rd of April near Syracuse ; they were 

 flying in a moist meadow near the Great Harbour. This species 

 has probably, like cerussella, the habit of flying in the evening. 



E. disemiella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 48.] I found this species 

 near Messina at the end of February, in March and in April in 

 the mountains on Erica arborea, but only obtained a few speci- 

 mens. 



On the 17th of February I beat three specimens, one of which 

 was a female, from bushes. In the same locality, on the 15th of 

 July, I obtained a remarkably small specimen, which evidently 

 belongs to the second brood. 



E. cyynipennella, Hb. A solitary male taken near Syracuse on the 

 19th of May in the fertile plain between the Anapo and the pil- 

 lars of the Temple of Jupiter. It is one of the largest specimens ; 

 the white has a more yellowish tinge than in German specimens ; 

 the anterior wings are a trifle narrower ; the palpi rather longer. 

 Since it has on the whole the general appearance of our well- 

 known species, I look upon these aberrations as only individual 



