Sicilian PTEROPHORINA, TINEINA, and MICfìOPTERYGINA. 

 By the Right Hon. LORD WALSINGHAM, M. A., LL. D., F. R. S., etc. 



Arriviug at Palenuo oii March lO'li. 191S, I boped to adcl to my 

 small knowledgi^ of the Microlepidoptera of kSicily in sudi tiuie as 

 could be spared t'ov collectiiig, but tlie bospitality of frieuds and otber 

 attractions of the city occnpied niy days so pleasantly that the op- 

 portunity was greatly neglected. It was, luoreover, too early in tlie 

 year to expect that many specics wouid be fonnd. 



Dnring my stay of live weeks at the charmiug hotel «Vilhx Igiea ». 

 I was able to explore the h)ver sh)pes of Monte Pellegrino in early 

 inorning and late evening, withont being long absent troni head- 

 quarters, thiis a few iuteresting species were observed. At La Favorita 

 I was fortunate in meeting Signor Enrico Ragusa, a collector as keen 

 as myself, with wlioiu I bave siuce been in Constant correspondence; 

 he afterwards sliowed me bis coUections and gave me niucb intbrma- 

 tion and assistance. I am indebted to bis Icindness for separate copies 

 of bis Catalogne of the Lepidoptera of Sicily, part. 2, to wbicb List 

 a few species, hitberto unobserved in (he Islaud, may now be added. 



It will probably be conveiiient to record in systematic order the 

 very limited numbor I was able to collect during my short stay in 

 .Sicily. Tliis terininated on May 4tli after a basty visit to Taormina, 

 Syracuse being the only otlier locality where specimens had been 

 obtained; there the weatlier was most unfavoarable, and the seutries 

 excnsably sas[»icious of a stranger with net, boxes, and bottles. 



It sbonld be mentioned that betore leaving Palermo Signor Ra- 

 gusa took me to some very good collecting ground at Kicuzza, bui 

 on that high level it was tar too early to fimi more tlian a very few 



