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disposed to separate from N. eurema specimens bred from Dorycnium 

 hirsntum, by Waisingham, at Hyeres ; in these, however, the spots are 

 widely separated, and rarely tend to coalesce and form a fascia. It is 

 probable that another species is indicated by these specimens, and 

 the N. cryptella, bred by Stainton and Milliere from Dorycnium, at 

 Cannes and Mentone, are almost certainly the same as Walsingham's 

 specimens from Le Try as and Hyeres." 



Cocoon. — Pale greenish on Lotus ; brownish-ochreous on Dorycnium 

 (Durrant). 



Food-plants. — Lotus corniculatus, Dorycnium hirsutum. 



Time of appearance. — Double- brooded. Sang took larvae on 

 Lotus, on July 11th, 1858, at Castle Eden, June 28th, 18G2, June 

 14th, 1872, September 7th, 1873, at Darlington, July 15th, 1873, 

 September 26th, 1878, at Scarborough (teste Gardner) . Hodgkinson 

 also notes larva? on Lotus in the last week of September, at 

 Scarborough. Threlfall bred imagines June 28th- July 6th, 1879, 

 from larva? obtained at Durham, on Lotus, September 15th, 1878, and 

 Waisingham bred others on September 21st, 1886, from larvae on 

 TMus, obtained the previous month at Melvish, in Sutherland. 

 Milliere notes imagines as emerging, at Mentone, in March, and 

 Stainton bred specimens on March 17th, 1867, from larva? found at 

 Cannes, on January 31st, on Dorycnium. Waisingham obtained 

 imagines at Le Tryas. on April 14th, 1881, and bred others July 7th, 

 August 10th, 14th, 21st, 1890, from larva? found at Hyeres in 

 October and November, 1890, on Dorycnium. 



Localities. — Dorset: Purbeck (Bankes). Durham: Castle Eden, Darling- 

 ton (Sang). ? Lanark : Langside (King). ? Lancashire (Hodgkinson). Suther- 

 land : Melvish (Waisingham). Westmorland : Arnside (Threlfall). Yorkshire : 

 Scarborough (Wilkinson). 



Distribution. — France : Cannes (Stainton), Mentone (Milliere), 

 Hyeres, Le Tryas (Waisingham). 



nepticula cryptella, Stainton. 



Synonymy. — Species : Cryptella, Sta., " Ent. Ann.," 1856, p. 41 ; " Man.," 

 ii., p. 432 (1859) ; " Nat. Hist. Tin.," vii., p. 148 (1862) ; Frey, " Die Tineen," etc., 

 p. 378 (1856) ; " Linn. Ent.," xi., p. 389 (1857) ; Stand, and Wocke, " Cat.," p. 340 

 (1871); Hein. and Wocke, "Schmett. Deutsch.," p. 769 (1877); Meyr., "Hand- 

 book," etc., p. 726 (1895). 



Original description. — Nepticula cryptella, Frey, n. sp. Alis 

 anticis angustulis albidis, saturate-griseo-squamatis ; capillis ochreis, 

 fusco-mixtis. Exp. al. 21 lin. Head and face dark ochreous, mixed 

 with fuscous ; palpi whitish ; antennae fuscous, basal joint whitish. 

 Anterior wings with coarse dark grey scales upon a whitish ground ; 

 cilia pale grey. Posterior wings pale grey, with paler cilia (Stainton, 

 Ent. Ann., 1856, p. 41). 



[Although both Stainton and Frey published descriptions of this 

 species in 1856, there can be no doubt that Stainton's was the earlier, 

 for Frey (Die Tineen, etc., p. x) includes The Ent. Ann., for 1856, in 

 his list of the " Literatur," to which reference has been made. Frey's 

 diagnosis refers undoubtedly to Stainton's species. It reads : Capillis 

 runs, antennarum conchula alba ; alis anter. grosse squamatis, nigris, 

 squamis multis albis intermixtis, ciliis dilutissime griseis, anguli analis 

 saturatioribus ; tarsis posticis unicoloribus, albidis. 3-2J'" (Frey, 

 Die Tineen, etc., p. 378)]. 



