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4171. MENDESIA Joanii. 



* 4034-1 echiella Joann. [Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1902. 231-2 tft'. (1U02)]~ 

 Monte Pellegrino, Palermo, 2. Ili; new to Sicily. 



The genus, altliougii quite distiuct in t'orm and nennition esiìe- 

 cially as to its -widei- and more obtnse hind-wings , is constantly 

 tbiind in collectioiis, confused witli « Elachista ». Tliis species mudi 

 resembles 4024 argentclla CI. ( ^ cijgnipennella Hb.). 



LYONETIADAC. 



433. OPOSTEGA Z. 



*4283. spatulella H8. — Ficuzza, 14. IV., three hibernated speui- 

 meus, taken l)y Signor Ragusa and myself, on Windows in tlie house 

 at the Station; this had not been recorded from Siciiij'. 



STIGMELLIDAE (= Nepticulidae). 



435. STIGMELLA Schrk. (1802) [ = ]SrEPTiGULA Hdn. (1843)]. 



Schrank, in 1802, inadvertently omitted to give a cross-reference 

 to bis Type of this genus, but Oken, in 1815, redescribed the genus 

 Stigmella and cited the Type, which is anomalelìa Goeze, tluis , an ■ 

 ticipatiug what I wrote in 1908 (Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1907. 1008-!)), when 

 nnaware that Oken had already done this [LB. Natnrg. Zool. 1. 

 pp. 651, 655, 667, xxiii (1815)]. Stigmella Schrank thus precedes the 

 more commonly used name Nepticula Hdn., Z. 



*4416. euphorbiella Stn. — Monte Pellegrino, Palermo, larvae abun- 

 dant on Eupliorhia dendroides, in Marcii; also taken on Ihe wing 27. 

 HI. It seems remarkable that this common sptcies shouid not bave 

 been observed before in Sicily. 



TINEIDAE. 



464. MONOPIS Hb. 



4529. imella Hb. -Palermo, 23. III.; Syracuse, 23. IV. 



