4, [June, 



1877) of C. Frischella, one is very apt to be misled, as in fact I myself 

 was, into thinking that the matter is at once set at rest because the 

 descriptions answer most accurately in every detail to the imago and 

 case of C. rnelilotella ; but Mr. Stainton informs me (1) that it is 

 extremely probable that those descriptions were written not by Yon 

 Heinemann himself, but by Dr. "Wocke, who completed the work 

 after the lamented decease of Von Heinemann ; and (2) that the 

 imago and case there described were in all probability those of C. 

 rnelilotella, to which the name Frischella was there given for the first 

 time. Frischella not having been previously known as occurring in 

 Germany or in Switzerland. 



G. rnelilotella first received its name in 1860, the larva? having 

 been found almost simultaneously at Stockton-on-Tees by Mr. John 

 Scott, and at Frankfort-on-the-Main by Herr Miihlig, in the previous 

 August. 



Very, very few specimens of the imago seem to have been known 

 in Germany until Sorhagen captured some at Berlin in 1878, nor does 

 any one in that country appear to have been successful in breeding 

 the insect. 



In conclusion, then, it seems clear that henceforth the name 

 rnelilotella must disappear from our lists, and must, with trifolii, stand 

 simply as a synonym of Frischella ; so that for the future the 

 synonymy will be : — 



Coleophoea Frischella, Linnaeus, Stn. 

 trifolii, Curtis, 

 rnelilotella, Scott. 



I have just learnt from Mr. Stainton, who has kindly furnished 

 me with all the extracts from German authors relating to this species, 

 that Herr Anton Schmid, in his "Lepidoptera of Regensburg," which 

 appeared in 1886, has already assigned rnelilotella, Scott, as a synonym 

 to Frischella, L., though he does not give any reasons for so doing.' 



The Rectory, Corfe Castle : 



April 20th, 1888. 



P.S. — Since the above notes were written, Mr. F. Bond has most 

 obligingly lent me one of the two reputed cases of C. Frischella, which 

 were given him by Mr. E. Shepherd, and, after making a most minute 

 and careful examination of it, I must honestly confess that I have 

 failed to trace the slightest difference whatever between it and the 

 cases of C conspicuella in my cabinet, and I have not the slightest 

 doubt in my own mind that it really belongs to that species. The 



