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BRITISH LEPIDOPTEKA. 



Killarney (Barrett). Lancashire: Manchester (Stainton), Chat Moss (Chappell), 

 Grange (Threlfall). Northumberland: Newcastle (Stainton). Perth: Aberfoyle 

 (Evans), Pitlochry (Beaumont). Somerset : Clevedon (Mason). Staffordshire : 

 Cannock Chase (Barrett). Stirlingshire: Torwood, Airthrey (Stainton). Surrey: 

 Haslemere (Barrett), West Wickham Wood (Douglas), Seale, nr. Farnham (Digby). 

 Sussex: Tilgate Forest (Vine), Ore (Bloomfield). Warwick: Near Birmingham 

 (Stainton). Westmorland: Windermere and Witherslack (Threlfall) . Wicklow : 

 In the Wicklow Mts. (Barrett). Yorkshire : York (Stainton), Scarborough 

 (Wilkinson), Huddersfield (Porritt), Richmond (Sang), Wilsden (Butterfield). 



Distribution. — Widely distributed throughout the whole of the 

 British Islands — England, Scotland and Ireland. It is also recorded 

 from many countries on the Continent — from Finmark to the Medi- 

 terranean, and from Ireland to Russia. It is recorded from : Denmark 

 (B.-Haas). France: Chateaudun (H.-Schaffer), Saone-et-Loire (Con- 

 stant), Cher (Sand), Savoy (Ghiliani) , Cannes (Walsingham). Germany 

 and Austria: Carniola (Scopoli), Vienna, Croatia and Fiume (Mann), 

 Dalmatia (Stainton), Pomerania (Hering), Kiel (H.-Schaffer), Branden- 

 burg and Hamburg (Sorhagen), Thuringia (Knapp), Oberharz (Hoff- 

 mann), Riesengebirge (Zeller), Frankfort (Koch), Krain, near Laibach 

 (Schmid), Bohemia (Fischer von Roslerstamm), Harz (Heinemann), 

 Bergiin, Beneschau, and the Silesian Mountains (Zeller), Saxony, near 

 Schandau (Tischer) , Alsace (Peyerimhoff) . Lapland : Stensele, Lycksele, 

 Wilhelmina, Lapponia Umensis, Bjoerkvik Nordlandiae, Dalecarlia 

 (Zetterstedt). Norway: Ostrolandia,Finmarken(Wallengren). Sweden: 

 Smolandia, Ostrogothia, Vermlandia, etc. (Wallengren). Finland 

 (Tengstrom). Switzerland : Schiipfen, Swiss Alps, Briischalp in Wiiggi- 

 thal (Frey). Between Friitigen and Kandersteg (Jordan). Russia : 

 Livonia (Lienig), Helsingfors, Sodra Karelen, Abo, Uleaborg (Teng- 

 strom), Riga, TursaMoor (Nolcken), Bundelwald, Kokenhausen (Lienig), 

 St. Petersburg (Erschoff). Italy : Piedmont (Fabricius), Tuscany 

 (Mann), Liguria (Ghiliani). Naxos (Mann). Meyrick also records the 

 species as occurring at Phillipeville and Bougie, in Algeria, but one 

 suspects the species was really M. alrjeriella, Rag. Specimens in 

 Constant's collection came from the Pyrenees and Burgundy. 

 Notes on genera of exotic Micropterygides. 



In order to complete the descriptive portion of this superfamily, it 

 may be well to quote Meyrick's descriptions of the Australian genera, 

 Palacomicra and Mnesarchea , and to give Walsingham's diagnosis of 

 the American genus Epimartyria. These are as follows : — 



Palaeomicra. — Imago: Head with long rough hairs; ocelli present; tongue 

 obsolete. Antennas § — §, in male filiform, pubescent, basal joint small, concealed. 

 Labial palpi extremely short, rudimentary. Maxillary palpi long, folded, loosely 

 scaled. Abdomen in male with rounded terminal plate above, valves large. 

 Middle tibise without spurs ; posterior tibias somewhat rough beneath. Fore-wings 

 with vein 1 a with long basal furcation, lower fork sometimes {chalcophanes) 

 again basally furcate, 1 b well-defined, connected with lower margin of cell by a 

 bar near base, 2 and 3 from point of angle, transverse vein sometimes {chalcophanes) 

 obsolete between 3 and 4, forked parting-vein well-defined, rising out of lower 

 margin of cell near base, sometimes {chalcophanes) connected with upper margin of 

 a bar near base, terminating in 4 and 5, between which the tranverse vein is absent, 

 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to hind margin, secondary cell well-defined, 9 and 10 out of its 

 upper margin, 11 from I of cell, giving rise to an additional vein and connected 

 with 12 by a bar above (chrysargyra) or below (chalcophanes) connected with 

 upper margin of cell at base, giving rise to an additional vein above in middle, and 

 sometimes {chalcophanes) a second near base. Hind-wings rather narrower than 

 fore-wings ; ovate-lanceolate, cilia f , neuration identical with that of fore-wings, 

 except as follows : 1 b rising out of upper fork of 1 a, not connected with cell, 2 



