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CHAPTER IX. 



ITALIAN AUTHORS. 



THE present chapter contains a notice of two Italian publications 

 treating on the Tineina the first that of the late Professor Costa, 

 of Naples, published about 1836. Of this I have contented myself 

 with enumerating the species and their localities, suggesting which 

 of the species described as new are probably known to us by other 

 names ; but of eleven of the species I have quoted the entire descrip- 

 tions. But I conceive it quite possible that many of the others may 

 be eventually recognized when we are better acquainted with the 

 Neapolitan Micro-Lepidoptera. 



The next treatise is that of Cavaliere Ghiliani, of Turin, which 

 appeared in 1852. This, being a work of smaller compass, I have 

 given entire, with the annotations which follow it. 



In February last I had the pleasure of meeting Professor Achille 

 Costa, son of the late Professor Costa, and found him still eagerly 

 anxious to add to his collection ; and in March I had also the plea- 

 sure of seeing Cavaliere Ghiliani in good health ; and he most kindly 

 placed in my hands a box of Italian Micro-Lepidoptera, which I 

 have not yet, I regret to say, found time to examine critically. 



SECTION I. 



Fauna del Ilegno di Napoli, di Oronzio-Gabriele Costa. Lepi- 

 dotteri. Napoli, 1832-36. [The individual genera are paged 

 separately.] 



[I give here a list of the species, and between brackets I put my 

 interpretation of them when that differs from the name assigned by 

 Costa. Of the few species to which I have prefixed numbers I copy 

 the entire descriptions, and add after those descriptions my observa- 

 tions on them. H. T. S.] 



Tinea flavifrontdla, Fab. \_T. HseUiella]. Nel mio gabinetto, sebben 



rara. 



T. pellionella, L. Ne' gabinetti zoologici diviene infestissima. 

 T. tapezella, L. 

 T. yrandla, L. 



1. T.Leopo1deUa,Cost& [Tinea ?]. Vive sulle lane. Eassairara. 



T. M-ClementineUa, Costa [Dasycera Olivielld]. Vive fra i cercali. 



Non ancora ho discoperta la pianta dalla quale ritrae Pordinario 



alimento. Ignota mi e pure la larva e la crisalide, nonche i suoi 



costumi. 



