OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 



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



Having been unavoidably prevented from contributing a 

 chapter to the Annual of last year, my readers will expect a 

 double crop of observations in the present volume. I fear, 

 however, they will be disappointed. 



The species unknown as British are, as formerly, indicated 

 by an asterisk. 



TalcBporia puhicorniSy Haw. The capture of a specimen 

 of this insect at Howth, in Ireland, by Mr. Gregson, has 

 been recorded by Mr. Hodgkinson (Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 78). 

 When I was at Frankfort in the summer of 1868, 1 received 

 from Herr Eppelsheim, of Griinstadt, two specimens of an 

 insect which I was at first disposed to refer to Talceporia 

 pubicornis, but one of them, clearly a female, had the wings 

 as well developed as the male; then I felt for a time doubtful 

 whether the specimens might not be referred to Incurvaria 

 tenuicornis. On reaching home and comparing them with 

 my Yorkshire specimen of TalcBporia pubicormisj received 

 many years ago from Mr. Allis, the male German specimen 

 agreed in form, size, glossiness, &c. well with the Bi-itish 

 specimen, but the colour was different — it was a greyer insect; 

 the anterior wings are greyer, the posterior wings greyer, and 

 the posterior legs are greyer ; still I can quite conceive that 

 this may be no more than a climatic difference, but if the two 

 insects are specifically identical, clearly our Puhicornis can 

 no longer be VQ^wle^ ^Talceporiay owing to the winged form 



1870. B 



