— (i — 



Lepidoptera on the wiiiy, aud these were for tbe rnost part liìbernated 

 specimens. In tbe iiioutb of June and latov tbis neigbboiirbood wonld 

 certaialy yield a ricb barvesfc to tbe collector. 



Tbe folbiwiiii»- are the species toUected. Tbe list .slioubl be com- 

 pared with Sif^iior Eurico Ragiisa's « Catalogo dei Lepidotteri di Sicilia 

 esisteuti nella collezione di Enrico Ragusa » Parte Seconda (Natura- 

 lista Siciliano 18: 1905. 10 24 Palermo, 1005) to wbicb I venture to 

 suggest a few sligbt correctious. Species new to Sicily are niarked ». 



LEPIOOPTERA. 



PTEROPHORINA. 



PTEROPHORIDAE. 



209. PLATYPTILIA Hb. 



1339. acanthodactyla Hb. — Taormina, 1. V. 



210. ALUCITA L. 



« Alucita Wlsgb. » sbonbl be corrected to Alucita Linnè. (I object 

 to the Geriuan contraction of n\\ name to «Wlsgbm» — « Wlsm. » 

 snflices and is usuai). 



1353. xanihodactyla Tr. — larvae observed on thistles in the ce- 

 metery near Palermo in March. 



13G(j malacodactyla Z. (misprinted « melacodactyla ») — Taormina, 

 3. V.; Syracuse, 23. V. 



215. STENOPTILIA Hb. 



1417. stigmatodactyla Z. — Taormina, 1. V. 



AGDISTIDAE. 



210. AGDISTIS Hb. 



1427. paralia Z. — common at Syracuse, 26. IV., aniong Statice 

 lunoììhnn , on wbicb plant our Englisb species hennetii also feeds. 

 I sboulil bave expL'cted to lìnd them tbe same, but paralia seeius to 



