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OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 

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



A SECOND visit to the South of France— where I arrived at 

 Cannes on the 27th of February, and left Mentone on the 

 27th of March — has added largely to my stores of observa- 

 tion, respecting the Tineina of that sunny country ; but a 

 few only of tiiesc observations are noticed here, as the whole 

 ■will find a place in the forthcoming volume on " The Tineina 

 of Southern Europe." 



I must beg the true, exclusive, Biitish collector not to 

 suppose that he is in no way concerned with the South of 

 Europe ; insects from that part of the world are constantly 

 turning up on our shores. The conspicuously beautiful, nevr 

 Solenoh'ia, already noticed in this volume, was first detected 

 in Italy, and even the original specimen of Ypsolophus us- 

 tulellus, described by Fabricius, was an Italian one. 



But, altogether independently of the occurrence amongst 

 us of insects only previously known as occurring on the 

 banks of the Mediterranean, it is no slight matter to have 

 opportunities of studying the habits of species allied to, or 

 congeneric with, those of this country, whose mode of life 

 still remains a mystery to us. Of this we have a note- 

 worthy instance in the genus Zelleria; this genus was 

 created in England, and we have three distinct species ; and 

 though there is a tradition that I actually bred a specimen of 7. 



