642 Mr. H. T. Stainton on the 



and golden lustre. Anterior wings narrow, deep black, with the 

 entire base for a considerable breadth brassy, beyond which the 

 black ground colour first appears as a broad fascia expanded 

 towards the costa. In the middle of the wing is a golden trans- 

 verse line, often with reddish lustre, as a border to a broad, dull, 

 orange-red fascia, much expanded towards the costa, which is 

 bordered externally by a similar transverse line, only that on the 

 costa it changes to a snowy white. Both these edgings have between 

 them and the fascia some black scales. Beyond, the ground colour 

 is deep black up to the end of the cilia at the apex of the wing, 

 in which runs a slightly curved, comparatively thick, metallic 

 longitudinal line, shining with gold, silver, bluish or lilac. The 

 blackish-grey cilia are paler towards the anal angle. Posterior 

 wings very narrow, linear, a little broader at the base, grey, with 

 long cilia. The entire underside brown-grey; the middle of the 

 anterior wings is faintly reddish, and the costal cilia show a white 

 blotch before the apex." 



In this description we find the character furnished by the entire 

 basal portion of the anterior wings being brassy very distinctly 

 stated, but the form of the apical streak is not so decisively men- 

 tioned ; it is not stated to run from the anal angle, nor are we 

 informed whether it is entire or interrupted, whence, indeed, we 

 should rather be disposed to conclude that it was entire. 



As to the localities frequented by the insect, Zeller cites "Copen- 

 hagen (Fabricius), Westrogothia in Sweden (Zetterstedi), Dresden 

 and Gorlitz (v. Tischer), Glatz (Zebe), and Spitzberg at the be- 

 ginning of June, after sunset, sparingly amongst raspberry and hop- 

 bushes." This last locality is the same as that given in the " Isis " 

 of 1839, but at that time the hops were not mentioned. " Whether 

 the Zieglerella, taken in Italy by Mann (who, before Scribdiella 

 was specifically distinguished, included it under the former name) 

 and the Zieglerella introduced by Kollar, in his ' Catalogue of 

 South Austrian Lepidoptera,' p. dQ, are identical with Druryella 

 I cannot say, more probably they belong to Cosmopteryx Scribdiella, 

 Heyden in lit." 



Then follows a description of this new species, Scribdiella, the 

 third known Cosmopteryx: — 



*' Alis anticis fuscis, ad basim striolis plumbeis, fascia media 



aurantiaca aurato-marginata, linea adheerente in apicem 



perducta aurata." 



" Very similar to Druryella, rather larger, with the anterior wings 



