144 LEPIDOPTERA. 



one specimen the space between the fascia and the first 

 transverse line is entirely dusted with black. 



This species occurs at Frankfort-on-the-Main (v. Hey- 

 den), in Bohemia, Hungary and Mecklenburg (F. v. R.), 

 and at Dresden (v. Tischer), around Vienna, and is not at 

 all scarce on the Alps (Mann). 



About Glogau it is not at all scarce in light, sunny places 

 in fir and birch woods, where thyme {Thymus serpyllum) 

 grows abundantly, at the end of June and beginning of 

 July ; it flies most readily towards evenings : only rarely 

 does it occur amongst Ovnatella and Adornatella, of which 

 it has the habit. The larva doubtless feeds on thyme, on 

 which I have already found it; however, I have not bred or 

 desciibed it. It lives in silken tubes upon the ground 

 amongst the plants of thyme, and is pale with some dark 

 longitudinal stripes. 



iVo^e. — Duponchel has figured this species incorrectly: 

 instead of the fascia of the anterior wings he represents an 

 interrupted transverse line, sharply angnlated in the middle, 

 without connection on the costa with the following transverse 

 line. I am sorry that he did not retain the name previously 

 given by me : since the similarity of the names, as Ornatellay 

 Adornatel/a, Subornatella, which could with equal right 

 be given to each of the three species in succession, only 

 increases the possibiHty of the confusion of allied species. 



{Translated from the Isis, 1846, p. 770.) 



Pempelia adornatella, Treitschke. 



Alis anterioribus rufo-luteis, costa strigisque duabus an- 

 gulatis albidis, priore obsoleta, posteriore subserrata, 

 punctis duobus nigris inteijectis albido-cinctis, serie 

 punctorum nigrorum marginali. 



Phycis adornatella jTr. x. 3, 172, 174 — Alis anticis fusco- 



