OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 7 



Herricb-ScbafTer's description of Himmiglwfenella. Tbese 

 specimens are not Rhodochrella, but are certainly only a 

 variety of tlie species witb whicb I found tbem. When I 

 now look at tbe SuhpropinqueUa received from you, it seems 

 to me to agree better with Sublatella than with my Suhpro- 

 pinquellaj so that I feel ratber doubtful which of my two 

 species is tbe English Suhp)ropinquella.'" 



Herr V. Heinemann sent me specimens of his two insects 

 and begged my opinion on them. His Suhlutella agreed 

 very fairly witb our SuhpropinqueUa, and when I was look- 

 ing through Dr. Staudinger's collection at Dresden in the 

 summer of 1868, I made a memorandum that " tbe original 

 specimen of D. suhlutella is very near to SuhpropinqueUa ;^' 

 but the insect Herr v. Heinemann sent me as his Suhpro- 

 pinqueUa, wbich he had bred from thistle, differed essentially 

 from our SuhpropinqueUa in the shape of the anterior wings j 

 they had much more the cut of the anterior wings of De- 

 pressaria atomeUa, and, as I wrote to Herr v. Heinemann, 

 " had I seen the insect without any notice of the larva, I 

 should unhesitatingly have pronounced it AtomeUa.'' I added, 

 *' I suspect that a black thorax sometimes occurs in several 

 species, so that I do not look upon it as a specific cha- 

 racter." 



Quite lately Mr. Fletcher of Worcester sent me a speci- 

 men of a Depressaria bred from a larva feeding on the upper 

 side of the leaves of the burdock (Arctium lappa), which 

 from the dark thorax he supposed to be RhodochreUa : this 

 had the same AtomeUa form of wing as Herr v. Heine- 

 mann's insect, and the question will hence arise whether we 

 have not two allied species confused as SuhpropinqueUa, 

 both of which in the larva state feed on Composites. 



Depressaria WeireUa, Stt. This species occurs near 

 Brunswick, whence I have received a specimen from Herr 



