54 SPECIES COLLECTED BY HEER MANN 



In 1862 Herr Mann again visited Dalmatia, and collected at Zara 

 and Spalatro, and also explored the islands of Brazza, Stolta, and 

 Bua*. 



The summers of 1860 and 1863 were spent in Asia Minor, and in 

 1865 Herr Mann visited the Dobrudscha ; but in 1866 he returned 

 to Southern Europe, and revisited Croatia, residing at Josefsthal 

 during May and June and the beginning of July ; the notice of his 

 captures there occurs in the ' Verhandlungen des zoologisch-botanis- 

 chen Yereins in Wien ' for 1867. 



In 1868 Herr Mann paid a third visit to Dalmatia, and collected 

 at Ragusa and Gravosa, whence at the end of May he proceeded for 

 a week to Cattaro, and then returned to Gravosa, which he left in 

 the middle of June for Spalatro, where he remained three weeks *. 



(I am aware that in 1867 Herr Mann visited the Tyrol, and col- 

 lected at Botzen from May 4th to July 8th ; but, though some few 

 species collected there, such as Staihmopoda Gmrinii and Pyroderces 

 argyrogrammos, indicate a southern fauna, Botzen, from its geogra- 

 phical position, must rather be regarded as belonging to the Alpine 

 district.) 



SECTION I. 



Tineina collected by Herr Joseph Mann in Tuscany in 1846, recorded 

 by Professor Zeller in the ' Stettiner entomologische Zeitung,' 

 1850, pp. 59-64, 134-136, 139-162, 195-209, entitled Ver- 

 zeichniss der von Herrn Jos. Mann beobachteten Toscaiiishen 

 Micro- Lepidoptera. " 



The opening paper of the series (Ent. Zeit. 1849, p. 200) begins 

 with the following introduction : 



Herr Mann, who has a great reputation amongst entomologists 

 as a dealer in insects, made a journey to Tuscany in the year 1846 

 principally with the view of capturing Micro-Lepidoptera, and col- 

 lected there from March till the heats of July compelled him to 

 return. With most indefatigable zeal he explored in turn the 

 neighbourhoods of Pisa and Leghorn, of Florence and of Poppi and 

 Pratovecchio. He found the neighbourhood of Florence much too 

 cultivated, so that he did not obtain a satisfactory amount of cap- 

 tures; even Pratolino with its famed park proved comparatively 

 barren in insects, since the trees and bushes are mostly evergreen, 

 and nourish too few larvae. Although at Leghorn the ground is also 

 assiduously cultivated, yet he had here a most favourable hunting- 

 ground, on the hills clothed with the most different kinds of trees, 

 from the thick-growing fences of the various properties (poderi), 

 amongst the tamarisk-bushes of the sea-coast, and the marshy 

 meadows which alternated with woods of leaf- trees towards Pisa, 

 in the pasture-fields so full of plants at Ardenza (three miles from 

 Leghorn), and on the heath- clad mountains between Antignano 



* Notices of the three Dalmatian journeys appear in the ' Verhandlungen der 

 zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien ' for I860, pp. 371-388. 



