12 IN MEMORIAM. 



angle. On the costa towards the apex of the wing is a spot 

 of the same colour. When the fasciae are interrupted, the 

 wings show five pale spots. The cilia are yellowish, mixed 

 with a few dark scales, especially towards the anal angle. 



Posterior wings narrow, lanceolate, pointed, silky-grey, 

 with yellowish cilia. 



On the underside all the wings are silky-grey^ with the 

 cilia unicolorous yellowish. 



Tinea Roesslerella is not easily to be confused with any 

 other of the smaller species of the genus, and comes nearest 

 to the group of Granella, by its long narrow wings. 



I have named this species after its discoverer, Dr. Rossler, 

 of Wiesbaden, to whom the Lepidopterology of the father- 

 land is much indebted; he found five specimens in that 

 neighbourhood in May, amongst Silene nutans. But I do 

 not imagine that this is the food-plant of the larva. (1864.) 



Tinea parietariella, Bruand ; Nigripunctella, Hey- 

 <len (E. Z. 1861, p. 33), non Haworth. I found the case 

 abundantly on the walls of the vineyards, at Rudesheim, on 

 the Rhine, also sparingly at Mayence ; always on, or at any 

 rate near, the turf-like growing mosses, Grimmia j)ulvi' 

 nata and Barhula muralis. It is found both in oblique 

 and perpendicular positions. I have collected a great number 

 of these cases, and, placing them in a cage, have furnished 

 them with the above-named mosses, often obtained moist; 

 but I have not observed that the larvae fed upon them. On 

 the other hand, they have eaten up all the refuse, with the 

 parts of insects ; hence, it is probable that they only con- 

 sume animal food. They were very restless, and many 

 crawled about almost constantly till the middle of June. I 

 had already given up all for lost, when some moths made 

 their appearance from the beginning to the middle of July, 

 the pupae protruding out of the cases as far as the ends of the 



