858 BRITISH LEPlDOPTERA* 



Lancashire : Preston (Hodgkinson) . Sussex : nr. Brighton (Fletcher). West- 

 morland (? Laxcs.) : Dutton (Hodgkinson). 



Distribution. — Asia Minor : Brussa (Mann). Austria: nr. Vienna 

 (Zeller), Oberfeld in Carniola, Fiume (Mann), Carinthian Alps, nr. 

 Steltzing, at 4,500 feet above the sea (Zeller) . France : Cannes, 

 pentes boisees et herbues des Vallergues, du Vallon des Tignes, etc. 

 (Milliere). Germany: Altenburg (Krause), Silesia (Wocke), Hanover 

 (Sorhagen), Eatisbon (Herrich-Schiiffer). Italy: Tivoli. Pisa, Palla- 

 gutta valley in Sicily (Mann). 



TRIFURCULA ATRIFONTELLA, 



Stain ton. 



Synonymy. — Species: Atrifrontella, Sta., " Supp. Cat. Tin.," p. 11(1851); 

 "Ins. Brit.," p. 306 (1854); " Man.," ii., p. 438 (1859); H.-Sch., "Sys. Bearb.," 

 v., p. 360 (1855) ; Staud. and Wocke, " Cat.," p. 335 (1871); Hein. and Wocke, 

 "Schmett. Deutsch.," p. 726 (1877); Hartm., " M. T. Miinch. Ent. Ver.," iv., 

 59, no. 2973 (1880) ; Threlfall, " Ent. Mo. Mag.,",xvi., p. 230 (1880) ; Sorhgn., " Die 

 Kleinschmett. Brandbg.," p. 344 (1886); Meyr., " Handbook," etc., p. 727(1895). 



Original description. — Atrifontella, n. sp. Expanse 4 lines. An- 

 terior wings ochreous, almost entirely suffused with coarse dark grey 

 scales ; head black. Two specimens in Mr. Bedell's collection 

 (Supplementary Catalogue of British Tineidae and Pterophoridae, p. 11). 



Imago. — Head black. Anterior wings 8 mm. in expanse ; yellowish- 

 white, almost entirely suffused with dark fuscous scales, the base of 

 costa remaining of ground colour ; cilia greyish. Posterior wings 

 pale grey, with paler cilia. 



Life-history. — Threlfall notes (E.M.M., xvi., p. 230) that he bred, 

 in June, 1879, a specimen of this species from hawthorn leaves collected 

 the previous October, probably from blotch-mines, which he noticed as 

 differing from those of N. pt/gmaeella and N. ignobilella. Sorhagen 

 says : " Larva in April and May, under the bark of Genista (Glitz)," 

 which is possibly an error, or Glitz may have made a mistake in the 

 identification. If Threlfall be correct, the species undoubtedly wants 

 removing to Nepticida, with N. pulverosella ; if Glitz be correct, then 

 it is probably rightly placed here. 



Food-plant. — Doubtful: ? Crataegus oxyacantlia (Threlfall), Genista 

 (Glitz). 



Time of appearance. — The species appears to be double-brooded, 

 imagines appearing in June and August. Stainton obtained an imago, 

 beaten from oak, on August 13th, 1851, atLewisham. Barrett records 

 it as occurring on oak-trunks at Haslemere, in August, 1864, and 

 Bower, on a fence, at Bexley, August 12th, 1892. Cambridge notes 

 the species as flying in a wood at Bloxworth, at the end of June, 1889, 

 and he captured another at the commencement of August, 1891, whilst 

 Threlfall reports breeding the species in June, 1879, from hawthorn. 

 Heinemann and Wocke note it as occurring at the end of July and in 

 August, at Breslau, and in Saxony. 



Localities. — Dorset: Bloxworth (Cambridge). Kent: Lewisham (Stain- 

 ton), Bexley (Bower). Lancashire : Preston (Threlfall). Surrey : Haslemere 

 (Barrett). 



Distribution. — Germany : Breslau and Saxony (Heinemann and 

 Wocke), Hanover (Sorhagen). 



Genus : Scoliaula, Meyrick. 

 Synonymy.— Genus: Scoliaula, Meyr., " Handbook," etc., p. 727 (1895). Nep- 

 ticula, Boheman, "Ent, Ant.," etc., p. 167 (1851) ; Sta., "Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond.," 



