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Birkenhead (Gregson). Derby: Burton-on-Trent (Mason). Essex: Colchester 



SHarwood). Gloucester: Bristol, Durdham Down, Stapleton, Almondsbury 

 Hudd). Hants : Bingwood, New Forest (Bankes), Basingstoke (Hamm). Here- 

 ford : Tarrington (Wood). Hertford: Cheshunt (Boyd), Broxbourne (Bacot). 

 Kent : Local and uncommon, Eltham, Lee, Chislehurst, Bexley, Green- 

 hithe (Bower), Dartford Heath (Stainton). Lancashire : Manchester (Stainton). 

 Leicester : Leicester (Sang). Middlesex : near Hampstead Boad Station (Healy). 

 Norfolk: King's Lynn (Atmore), Mer ton (Durrant). Somerset: Cheddar Gorge 

 (Griffiths). Suffolk: Brandon (Walsingham). Surrey: Addington, near Shirley 

 (Douglas), Haslemere (Barrett), South Lambeth (Stephens), West Wickham (Stain- 

 ton), Bipley (Westwood), Bichmond Park (Warren). Sussex : Bersted, Bognor 

 (Fletcher). Yorks : York (Stainton). 



Distribution. — Austria : Vienna, Fiume (Mann), Prague (Frey coll.), Briinn 

 (Gartner), Lavantthal (Hofner). Belgium: Brussels (Lambillion), Louvain (Fre). 

 Denmark : North Zealand, Falster (Bang-Haas). France : North France (Constant 

 coll.), St. Florent, Nohant (Sand), Aube (Jourdheuille), Douai (Foncart), Doubs 

 (Bruand), (?) Alpes-Maritimes (Milliere). Germany: Generally distributed in woods 

 and on fences (Heinemann). near Dantzig (Tiedemann), Glogau (Zeller), Branden- 

 burg, Frankfort-on-Oder, Brunswick (Heinemann), Ueberlingen, Heiligenberg, 

 Freiburg, Lahr, Karlsruhe, Spires, Wertheim (Beutti), Alsace (Peyerimhoff), Bonn 

 (Frey), general in Brandenburg, Finkenkrug, Potsdam, Friedland, Stettin 

 (Sorhagen), Munich (Hartmann), Bhine Palatinate (Bertram), Frankfort-on- 

 Main (Koch), Waldeck and Arolsen (Speyer), Nassau (Bossier), Wurtemberg 

 (Hofmann), Batisbon (Schmid), Silesia, generally distributed (Assmann), 

 Dessau (Bichter), Krefeld (Jordan), Hanover (Glitz), Pomerania (Biittner), 

 Frankfort-on-Oder (Kretschmer). Italy: ? Alps of the Valtellina (Curo). Nether- 

 lands : Not rare in drier parts, South Holland, Utrecht, Arnhem in Gelderland, 

 Venlo in Limburg, Breda in North Brabant (Snellen). Bussia : Sarepta (Christoph). 

 Switzerland: Up to 5,000ft. (Frey), Bremgarten(Boll), Upper Engadine, Samaden 

 (Pfaffenzeller), Pontresina (Killias). 



Family : diplodomidae. 



This family is probably (with the last) the most generalised of 

 those that undoubtedly belong to the Psychides. Both sexes are 

 winged, and the imago has distinct ocelli at the base of the 

 antennae, a character that is maintained by the Taleporias, which 

 originate some distance above the genus Diplodoma, on the Psychid 

 stem. The family seems to be restricted to the Palaearctic area, only 

 two species at present being known to represent this stranded remnant 

 of the early Psychids. It is quite possible, however, that some of the 

 genera mentioned ante, p. 132, belong to this family. 



Subfam. : diplodominae. 



Tribe : diplodomidi. 



Genus : diplodoma, Zeller. 



Synonymy. — Genus: Diplodoma, Zell., "Linnaea Entomologica," vii., pp. 

 332, 359 (1852) ; Sta., " Insecta Britannica," p. 20, pi. i., figs. 6a-d (1854) ; 

 "List Br. An. B. M.," xvi., Lp., p. 0(1854); "Ent. Ann.," 1856, p. 49 (1855); 

 " Man.," ii., p. 286 (1859) ; " Ent. Ann.," 1861, p. 103 (1860) ; H.-Sch., " Sys. 

 Bearb.," v., pp. 30, 96 (1853) ; Hein., " Schmett. Deutsch. Tin.," p. 33 (1870) ; 

 Ibid., 2, Tab. 2 (1876); Nolck., "Lep. Fn. Estl.," p. 469 (1871); Staud. and 

 Wocke, "Cat.," p. 267 (1871); Bang-Haas, "Nat.Tids." (3), x., p. 2 (1875); Wallgrn., 

 " Bih. Vet.-Ak. Handl.," iii., p. 33 (1875) ; Sand, " Cat. Lep. Auv.," p. 154 (1879) ; 

 SnelL, "Tijd. v. Ent.," xxii., p. 129 (1879), " De Vlinders, &c," pp. 416,448 

 (1882); " Tijd. v. Ent.," xxxvii., p. 13 (1894) ; Hart., "Mitt. Miinch. Ent. Ver.," 

 iii., 196 (1879); Frey, "Lep. der Schweiz," p. 335 (1880); Boss., "J.-B. Ver. 

 Nass.," xxxiii-iv., p. 228 (1881) ; Peyer., " Cat. Lep. Als.," 2nd ed., p. 84 (1882) ; 

 Curo, " Bull. Soc. Ent. It.," xv., p. 5 (1883) ; Bou., " Cat. Chen. Eur.," 142 (1883) ; 

 Sorh., " Die Kleinschmett. Brand.," p. 142 (1886) ; Heyl., " Tijd. v. Ent.," xxxiv., 

 p. xxvi (1891); Meyr., "Handbook," &c, p. 776 (1895); Beutti, "Lep. Bad.," 

 2nded., p. 304 (1898). [ Tinaea, Geoff., " Hist. Ins.," ii., p. 198, no. 41 (1762) ; Wer., 

 " Beitr.," 2, p. 315 (1864).] Tinea, Geoff.," Ent. Paris.," ii., p. 332 (1785); Zell., " Isis," 



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