24 fJiine, 



small black spot between 2iicl and 3rcl segments, and one between eacli of the segments 

 from the 'Ith to the 11th. These spots are not noticed in my note book, and might 

 be invisible in the living larvae, but ai'e very evident in preserved specimens. 



The silken case measures f-in. x ^^-in., and is distinctly larger than those of 

 the other species alluded to above. It is of a pale yellow or dirty white colour, 

 with from three to five yellow or brown longitudinal stripes of variable width, a 

 dark stripe sometimes running down a paler one. These stripes are more or less 

 conspicuous in the cases of many Coleophora, and may be seen in those of the species 

 mentioned above, and also in those of C. apicella, C. artemisiella, &c. I take them to 

 be extra breadths of silk woven in to make the old gown fit its quickly growing wearer. 

 They are, however, more distinct in the case of the C. Jlavaginella of Lienig than in 

 those of its nearest allies, owing to its case being clean and not covered like theirs 

 with sand or other foreign substances. The mouth is bent round so that the case is 

 carried nearly flat, and the anal end is 3-lobed. — W. H. B. Fletchee, Tairlawn 

 House, Worthing: May 4th, 1887. 



Coleophora 3Iiihligiella, n. sp. (formerly known as flavaginella of MukUg). — 

 Nearly 30 years ago (for it was in February, 1859), I received from Herr Or. Or. Miihlig, 

 of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, bred specimens of a Coleophora (nearly allied to annu- 

 latella) under the name of flavaginella. 



It was in the very same year, 1859, but in July, that I received from 

 Dr. Nylander specimens oi flavaginella, labelled "Lienig," which had come to him 

 from Dr. af Tengstrom, who I suppose had received them direct from Madame 

 Lienig herself, as representatives oi the flavaginella described by Zeller in the Isis of 

 1846, from Madame Lienig's specimens. These specimens do not appear, however, 

 to be identical with the flavaginella received from Herr Miihlig, and hence for some 

 years we have been speaking of the flavaginella of Lienig, and the flavaginella of 

 Muhlig. 



It is time this trinomial confusion should cease. Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, who 

 has been breeding rather freely from Suceda maritima, an insect which I take to be 

 the true flavaginella of Lienig, has furnished us with the life-history of that species. 

 For the insect I had received from Herr Muhlig I would now propose the name of 

 Coleophora Muhligiella. 



Milhligiella is a narrower-winged, browner insect, with a straight costa barely 

 edged with whitish beyond the middle, and with numerous scattered dark scales 

 along the veins ; its short ease (very like that of annulatella) is of a nearly uniform 

 grey-brown tint, frequently well covered with grains of sand. 



Flavaginella is a broader-winged, greyer insect, with the costa more curved, 

 more or less distinctly white edged from before the middle, sometimes almost from 

 the base, and rarely with the slightest trace of any scattered dark scales along the 

 veins ; the case of this species has been well described by Mr. Fletcher above. 



Herr Anton Schmid, in his Ratisbon Lepidoptera (Die Lepidopteren-Fauna der 

 Kegensburger Umgegend), ii, 117, gives, as the habitat of his flavaginella, which 

 is doubtless identical with Miihlig's species (as the two Entomologists worked 

 together at Frankfort for so very many years) : — 



" Imago in July and August. 



" Case in September and October on the seeds of Chenopodium album, bonus 



