OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 

 By H. T. Stainton, F.L.S. 



In the Annual of last year tlie " Observations on Tineina" 

 were excluded from want of space, and were afterwards pub- 

 lished in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, vol. iii. 

 pp. 54-57 and 78—82. 



This year I have put this chapter earlier in the volume, 

 but, in order not to trespass too much on the space which 

 may be required for other matters, I have given only a selec- 

 tion from the observations of the past season. 



My visit to the South of France in the month of March 

 last (where I was at Cannes from the 9th to the 13th, and 

 at Mentone from the 13th to the 28th) opened to me quite a 

 new field of observation. But much that was then noted is 

 omitted here, as it will at some future date find a place in 

 a work I am proposing on the Tineina of Southern Europe. 



The species marked * are not yet known as British. 



* Hyponomeuta egregiella, Duponchel, " Lep. de France," 

 xi. p. 345, pi. 299, fig. 9. This conspicuous species, placed 

 by Duponchel in the genus Butalisy and by Wocke in the 

 genus Swammerdamiay was first bred by Dr. Staudinirer 

 when in the South of Spain in 1857 and 1858. Its true 

 place is evidently near H. Stannellus, Thunberg {Rufimi- 

 trellay Z.); but whereas that has the anterior wings entirely 

 of a unicolorous leaden grey, in Egregiella the costa is 

 whitish beyond the middle, and a conspicuous white streak 

 1867. c 



