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NEW BRITISH TINEINA. 

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



In the past season three novelties have been detected in this 

 country, and been added to our list of Tineina. These are 

 Solenobia conspurcatella, Zeller (an Italian species, though 

 also found latterly in Belgium), Ypsoloj)hus ustulellus, Fa- 

 bricius (a species by no means uncommon near Brussels, and 

 now found in the cabinets of two zealous Entomologists of 

 Worcester), and Opostega reliquella, Zeller, a small white 

 species, with the dull inert flight of its congeners. 



Solenobia conspurcatella, Zeller. (Fig. 3.) 

 This pretty species, first detected in Tuscany by Herr 

 Joseph Mann in 18-16 (see Stettin. Ent. Zeitung, 1850, 

 p. 59), was met with near Brussels in 1861 by ni}^ friend M. 

 Fologne, who thus wrote to me, March 15th, 1861 : " I 

 have bred a species of Talmporia distinct from Incoiispi- 

 cuella, I found the cases containing pujooe three weeks aoo. 

 (Inconspicuella is now still in the larva state.) They were 

 under the bark of a dead tree." 



On the 28th of the same month he wrote to me : '^ I now 

 send you this Talceporittf which I take freely on the wing at 

 the place where I had found the cases — the specimens are all 

 very similar to that which I send and the species does not 

 seem to vary much." Subsequently, on passing through 



