156 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



Bohemia (Treifcschke) ; near Lauban, in Silesia (Wiesehiitter) ; Livonia, 

 in the Duna district (Lienig), Kiel (Fabricius) ; Forest of Soignies, 

 Belgium (Stain ton). Staudinger and Wocke give : Livonia, Galicia, 

 Germany, Switzerland and England. Constant adds : Burgundy. 

 Meyrick writes : England (in woods, common) ; Central Europe. 

 The following is a more complete list : Austria : Bohemia (Treitschke), 

 Vienna (H.-Schaffer), E. Galicia. Belgium : Soignies (Stainton). 

 Denmark (B.-Haas). France : Saone-et-Loire (Constant), Cher and 

 Indre (Sand). Germany : Landsberg, Brandenburg, Stettin, Hamburg 

 (Sorhagen), Wiirtemberg (Hoffmann), Riesengebirge (Zeller), Strelitz, 

 Ratisbon (H.-Schaffer), Nassau (Bossier), Thuringia (Knapp). Russia : 

 Livonia, Duna dist. (Lienig), Bielsteinshof (Nolcken). Sweden : 

 Vestrogothia (Thunberg), Scania, Bahusia (Wallengren). Switzerland : 

 nr. Zurich (Frey), Lausanne (Laharpe), nr. Schiipfen (Rothenbach). 



MICROPTERYX AUREATELLA, Scop. 

 Synonymy.- — Species: Aurcatella, Scop., " Ent. Cam.," pp. 2-54-255, no. 662 

 (1763); Goze, "Beitr.," iii. (4), 149, no. 192 (1783); Stdgr. and Wocke, "Cat.," 

 p. 108 (1861) ; Const., " Cat. Lep.," p. 311, no. 1128 (1866) ; Stdgr. and Wocke, 

 "Cat.," p. 340 (1871); Nik., ■' Lp. Fn. Estl.," etc., pp. 495-7, no. 426 (1871) ; 

 B -Haas, " N.H. Tdsk.," x., 47 (1875); Wallengren, " Bih. Svensk. Vet.," etc., iii., 

 82, no. 430 (1875) ; Hein. and Wk., " Schmett. Deutsch.," 774, no. 6 (1876) ; Zell., 

 " Stett. Ent. Zeit," xxxix., pp. 161-2 (1878); Sand, "Cat. Lep. France," p. 203, 

 no. 3099 (1879) ; Snellen, " Vlinders," etc., p. 1064 (1882) ; Curo, " Nat. Sic," i. p 

 p. 89 (1882); Wallengren, "Ent. Tids.," 1883, 214; Sorhgn., " Kleinschm. M. 

 Brandenbg.," p. 314 (1886) ; Meyr., " Handbook," etc. p. 806. Allionella, Fab., 

 "Ent. Syst.," iii., pt. 2, p. 321, no. 148 (1794) ; Zell., "Isis," 1839, 185; Lienig, 

 "Ms," 1846, p. 274; Tgstrom., "Not. Sallsk. Fn.," etc., i., 115 (1847); Sta., 

 " Cat. Br. Tin.," p. 9 (1849); " Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond.," 1850, p. 31, pi. iii., fig. 7 ; 

 Zell., " Stett. Ent Zeit.,"xi.,p. 63 (1850) ; "Lin. Ent." {vars. a and b only), v., pp. 

 330-1 (1851) ; H.-Sch., " Schmett. Eur. Microp.," pi. i., fig. 6 (1851) ; Ghil., "Fn. 

 Ent. Ital.," 78 (1852) ; Sta., " Ins. Br.," pp. 43-4(1854) ; H.-Sch.," Schmett. Eur.," 

 v., p. 392 (1856) ; Frey, " Die Tineen," etc., pp. 49-50 (1856) ; Sta , " Ent. Ann.." 

 1857, 123; "Man,," ii., p. 303 (1859); Frey, "Ent. Ann.," 1858,142; Eosslr., 

 " Jahrbuch Nassau," etc., xix.-xx., no. 1324 (1866) ; Sta., " Tin. S. Eur.," 56, no. 

 27, 91, 284 (1869); Sta., "Ent. Ann.," 1874, 6 ; Frey, "Lep. Schweiz," 427 (1880) ; 

 Porritt, "List Yorks. Lep.," p. 137 (1883) ; Walter, "Jena Zts.," xviii., pp. 751- 

 807 (1885). Amoenella, Stphs., "Cat. Br. Ins.," ii., p. 227, no. 7582 (1829). 

 Ammanella, Curt , " Guide," 188, no. 1037, 19 (1831); Stphs., " 111.," iv., p. 362 

 (1835); Zett., "Ins. Lapp.," p. 1008, no. 10 (1840); Koch, "Isis," 1848,950; 

 Hdnrch., " Lp. Eur. Cat.," p. 80, no. 139 (1851) ; Westwood and Humph., " Br. 

 Moths " (2 Ed.), ii., p: 1 254 (1854). Tricinctella, Costa, " Fauna Napoli," p. 11, pi. ii., 

 fig. 2 (1834). Paykullella, Werneburg, " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," xx., p. 67 (1859). 



Original description. — Long. lin. 2^. Alas antica? rubro-aurata? ; 

 fascia maculisque aureis. Macula aurea in limbo et alia ad basim, 

 fascia intermedia. Caput runs pilis pubescens. Oculi fusci. In 

 sylvestris locis (Scopoli, Ent. Camiolica, pp. 254-255). 



Imago. — Fore-wings 8-11 mm. ; purple, with a pale golden fascia near 

 the base, another in the middle, and a pale golden costal spot near the 

 apex. Hind-wings pale ashy, with a purple tinge towards the apex. 



Variation. — This species, so far as may be judged from purely 

 British specimens, would be considered a constant species with two 

 golden fasciae, one basal, the other central, and a costal spot towards 

 the apex. Continental specimens, however, are referred to this species, 

 which frequently have an extra golden spot within the normal costal 

 apical one, sometimes small, at other times much larger. There is also 

 some slight difference in the direction of the central fascia, which is 

 straighter in our British examples. Our own experience of the latter form 

 was obtained at Cannes, on April 19th, 1898, when Dr. Chapman 



