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the imago appearing in May and June. Wilkinson bred it on May 

 23rd, 1862, at Scarborough, and Griffith captured imagines on Betty 

 Hill, Sutherlandshire, on June 3rd, 1885. The larva was common 

 in the leaves of mountain-ash from September lst-October 12th, 

 1891, at Eichmond, Yorkshire (Bower). It also occurs in these 

 months in Switzerland, although the first specimen of the species 

 observed emerged in Prey's room, in February, 1856. Sang 

 found mines on September 1st, 1856, at Harrogate ; October 7th, 

 1857, and September 29th, 1871, October 9th, 1873, September 28th, 

 1878, at Barnard Castle ; September 12th, 1873, at Stanhope ; 

 October 2nd, 1878, October 7th, 1879, at Richmond, Yorks. 



Localities. — Cheshire: Bowdon (Edleston). Durham: Barnard Castle, 

 Stanhope, High Force (Bower). Hereford: Tarrington (Wood). Lancashire: 

 Preston and Grange (Threlfall). Leicester: Market Harborough (Matthews), 

 Whitwick (Sang). Norfolk : King's Lynn, rather common (Atmore). Sutherland : 

 Betty Hill (Griffith). Westmorland: Witherslack and Windermere (Hodgkinson). 

 Yorkshire: Eichmond (Bower), Ingleborough (Bankes), Doncaster (Corbett), 

 Scarborough (Wilkinson), Harrogate (Sang). 



Distribution. — France : Nohaut, Indre (Sand). Germany : San- 

 dsee, Alt Damm, Friedland (Hering), Alsace (Peyerimhoft), Brunswick, 

 Silesia (Heinemann), Brandenburg, Hanover (Sorhagen). Nether- 

 lands: Friesland (Snellen). Russia: Livonia (Sorhagen), Pich- 

 tendahl (Nolcken). Switzerland: Zurich (Frey). 



nepticula minusculella, Herrich-Schiiffer. 



Synonymy.— Species: Minusculella, H.-Sch., " Sys. Bear.," v., p. 348 (1855); 

 Frey, " Die Tineen," etc., p. 373 (1856); "Linn. Ent.," xi., p. 377; Sta.,"Nat. 

 Hist. Tin.," vii., p. 162, pi. viii., fig. 1 (1862) , "Ent. Ann.," 1870, p. 159; Staud. 

 and Wocke, " Cat.," p. 336 (1871) ; Hein. and Wocke, " Schmett. Deutsch," p. 735 

 (1877) ; Sand, " Cat. Lep. Auvergne," p. 200(1879); Peyer., " Cat. Lep. Alsace," 

 2nd Ed., ii., pp. 165-166 (1882); Snellen, " Vlinders," etc., ii., pp. 979 (1882) ; 

 Sorhagen, "Die Kleinschmett. Brandenburg," p. 303 (1886); Meyrick, "Hand- 

 book," etc., p. 715 (1895). 



Original description. — N. minusculella. Magnit. 4 ; cilia non 

 squamiformia ; capilla foeminas olivaceo-fusci, lateribus sordide lutei. 

 Vierte Grosse, Franzen ohne Auszeichnung, die Kopfhaare des Weib- 

 chens in der Mitte olivenbraun, ausserden schmutzig lehmfarben. 

 Eine der kleinsten Tineinen, in den Farben der vorigen gleich, aber 

 die Schuppen der Vorderrliigel viel grober, daher weniger glanzend, 

 gegen die Spitze kaum kupferig. Die Franzen nicht weisser, Fuhler 

 schwarz, Augendeckel und Nackenschopfe weiss. Kopfhaare schwarz, 

 beim Weibe mit olivengriinlichem Lehmgelb unten und seitlich stark 

 gemischt, in der Mitte mehr olivenbraun als schwarz. Im Mai und 

 Juni an Birnbaumen, funf Exemplare. VonH. Dr. Wocke, in Breslau. 

 (Herrich-Schaffer, Sys. Bear, der Schmett. von Europa, v. (1855), 

 p. 348). 



Imago. — Head black ; anterior wings 4-5 mm. in expanse, rather 

 narrow ; shiny, pale bronzy-green, with a faint purple tinge at apex; 

 cilia scarcely paler than the ground-colour of the wings. Posterior 

 wings and cilia dark grey. 



Comparison of N. minusculella with N. aucuparle, N. atrica- 

 pitella, etc. — This species is readily distinguished by its small size 

 and pale green colour from all its congeners except N. aucupariae, 

 but that species has a yellow head ; in N. minusculella, the head seems 

 to be always black. It may be also readily distinguished from N. 

 atricapitella by its much smaller size, narrower anterior wings, and 



