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OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 



in Corsica — as his Neue Sclimetterlinge (of which onl}' three 

 parts have yet appeared) is probably to be found in few 

 libraries. I annex a translation of his description : — 



*^ Like the smallest specimens of Silacellaj but certainly 

 distinct ; the posterior wings narrower than the anterior wings^ 

 the costa and inner margin parallel. The head, palpi, back 

 of the thorax, the inner margin of the anterior wings as far as 

 the fold, the hind margin narrowly, and the costa from the 

 middle broadly, leaden grey. At one-third of the length of 

 the wing a deep black longitudinal streak on the fold; at 

 two-thirds a browT. g^ey triangle from the inner margin to 

 the middle of the wing. Cilia dark grey, with the divisional 

 and marginal lines blackish. The antennoD are sharply an- 

 nulated black and white." 



The ground colour of the anterior wings, omitted by 

 Herri ch-Schaffer, is bright ochreous. 



Ypsolophus verbascelhis, W. V, The larva of this species 

 seemed very common everywhere about Cannes, on the 

 ■plavits of Vej'hascum ; I began collecting them on the 1st 

 of March, of various sizes, and my friend, the late Mr. 

 Henry Wade Battersby, collected some on the 6th of March, 

 without my having indicated to him that there were larvas to 

 be found on the Verhascum. In this countrj^ it has hardly 

 been noticed out of the county of Norfolk; perhaps we 

 rather overlook the species. 



CEcophora fuscescens, Haworth. I met with several of 

 this species (which, like Gelechia muUnella has a great ten- 

 dency to run about with its wings a little raised, and almost 

 invariably dies with them over its back) at Pitlochrie in 

 Perthshire. I always imagine that the larva is a rotten 

 wood-feeder, but I am not aware that the species has ever 

 been bred. 



Tinagma rcsplendelhim, Stainton. I met with the larva? 



