198 SPECIES COLLECTED BY THE REV. H. BURNEY AT MENTONE. 



but when I refer to Herrich-Schaffer's * Netie Schmetterlinge ' I 

 find that he compares it with curpinicolella and Messanulla, 

 whereas Mr. Burney's insect should be compared with kmtelht 

 and with pomifdiella : and of a white central line on the thorax 

 mentioned by Herrich-Schaffer I see no trace ; and it chances that 

 Mr. Burney's specimens are well adapted for showing the thorax, 

 eight specimens not being pinned, but mounted on gummed card, 

 and the ninth, though pinned, has the pin inserted behind the 

 thorax. The figure of belotella in Herrich-Schaffer's * Neue 

 Schmetterlinge' (f. 116) would certainly lead one to expect an 

 insect nearly allied to leucographella. 



Sublautella, as the name implies, is certainly most nearly allied 

 to lautella; it has the same rich red-orange colour, only not quite so 

 dark ; it possesses the short basal streak, the two dorsal spots, the 

 three distinct costal spots, and the fourth smaller and much less 

 distinct ; but the small silvery spot below the black apical streak so 

 characteristic of lautella is entirely wanting : moreover the posi- 

 tion of the first dorsal spot is much more oblique, and the first 

 costal spot is much shorter than in lautella ; the apex of the wing 

 is not suffused with dark as in lautella, but a beautiful iridescent 

 hinder marginal line intersects the cilia. From the brightest spe- 

 cimens of pomifoliella it can be immediately separated by the far 

 more brilliant colouring, more silvery tone of the pale markings, 

 and total absence of the third dorsal spot. 



I describe this species as follows : 



Exp. 3|'". Alls anticis Icete rufo-aurantiacis, linea basali abbreviata 

 albide-arqentea costam versus niyro-marginata, strigulis quatuor costce 

 breviusculis (ultima interdum obsolete), duabusque dorsi albido-ar- 

 genteis, introrsum nigro-margituttis, striola apicis ovata nigra, ciliis 

 linea iridescente intersectis. 



Head and thorax dark saffron, the latter with no pale central line. 

 Face and palpi whitish. Antennaa dark fuscous, faintly annulated 

 with paler (not black with white tips as in lautella}. Anterior 

 wings bright reddish orange, with a short silvery-white basal streak, 

 which becomes gradually broader for some distance, and then is 

 rather abruptly pointed ; it is bordered with black on its upper 

 side, then follow four costal silvery- white spots ; the first, obliquely 

 placed, is very short (scarcely crossing the subcostal nervure), the 

 second is less obliquely placed, and is rather longer, the third is 

 placed nearly perpendicularly, and reaches to the black apical streak, 

 being by far the longest of the costal spots ; the fourth is much 

 smaller, and sometimes scarcely perceptible, it lies just over the 

 further end of the apical black streak ; all these spots are margined 

 with black towards the base of the wing : on the inner margin are two 

 silvery-white spots ; the first, obliquely placed, reaches half across 

 the wing, and has its apex nearly midway between the apex of the 

 first costal spot and that of the second ; the second dorsal spot is 

 more triangular, and is posterior to the second costal spot; the 

 apical black streak is an elongate oval, behind it an iridescent 



