14 SPECIES COLLECTED BY PROFESSOR ZELLER 



peculiarities. Hence it would appear as though cyynipennella were 

 distributed over the whole of Middle and Southern Europe, even 

 to the coast of Asia ; for the female taken at Carajasu shows no 

 difference. 



Opostega, n. sp. [Cemiostoma, noticed at p. 49.] I beat a specimen 

 of this species, closely allied to spartifoliella, on the 8th of April 

 near Messina, from bushes on a slope clothed with Cytisus tmflo- 

 rus and Arbutus, having already met with one specimen several 

 weeks earlier. 



Opostega suffusella, n. sp. [Phyllocnistis suffusella, Z., now too well- 

 known to require re-describing.] I took a single female on the 

 19th of August in the neighbourhood of the Lake of Agnano, 

 near Naples ; the larva there probably feeds on poplar-leaves. 



Lyonetia, sp. ? [Nepticula, sp. ? The description is too brief to be 

 worth quoting.] I took a single specimen near Naples in the 

 woods above the Lake of Agnano on the 15th of August. 



L. somnulentella, n. sp. [Bedellia somnulentella, Z., the now well- 

 known and widely distributed species.] I took a female near 

 Messina on the mountains on the 3rd of April, and two males 

 near Syracuse on the 12th of May and 7th of June in fields near 

 the Syraca. 



Lithocolletis Messaniella, Z. Around Messina (Linn. Ent. i. p. 222) 

 from the middle of February to the end of March, on the hills on 

 both sides of the road towards Palermo, at Buonretiro, Tremmonti, 

 and San Michele. It frequented the dry leaves of the bushes of 

 Quercus pubescens. Probably it is not scarce there : as at that 

 time the weather was windy and bad, they flew out but rarely on 

 my beating the bushes ; and as I thought it was only our common 

 L. querdfoliella, I gave myself less trouble about them than I 

 should otherwise have done. Probably it occurs in other parts of 

 Southern Europe on the same species of oak. 



Tischeria Emyella, Dup. [T. margined, Haw.] Two males, 

 among gardens near Syracuse on the 23rd of April and 17th of 

 May. At Glogau I took a female from a hedge on the 8th of 

 May. Duponchel's specimen seems to have come from Livonia ; 

 so that the species is widely distributed. 



Pterolonche albescens, n. sp. [Described, see p. 50.] I took a beau- 

 tiful pair near Messina on the Castellaccio hill, after sunset on 

 the 22nd and 25th of July, amongst dry grass. 



P. pulverulenta, n. sp. [Described, see p. 51.] I took three pairs, 

 by degrees, during the month of May near Syracuse, from a dry 

 pasture-ground near the Capuchin Monastery, where I started 

 them with difficulty from the stunted shrubs on which the goats 

 had browsed. I obtained one pair on the 31st of May on the 

 far side of the Anapo, in dry grass in a ravine. 



