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Micro-Psychids, as it certainly is the one in which the greatest con- 

 fusion prevails as to the species described by various authors. No real 

 critical attention has been paid to the family in Britain, although with 

 the " Zeller," " Frey," and " Stainton " collections, one would sur- 

 mise that the material for such a study is available ; yet, in the two 

 last-named collections, at least, one is not always quite able to follow 

 the species as there named, nor to agree that the insects bearing 

 different names are always really distinct species. Details, however, 

 bearing on this, will be considered at length when dealing with the 

 various species. 



Subfam : solenobiinae. 



Tribe : solenobiidi. 



Genus : solenobia, Duponchel. 



Synonymy. — Genus: Solenobia, Dup., in part, " Hist. Nat.," supp. iv., pp. 197, 

 201,428-430, 512 (1842) ; " Cat. Met.," p. 358 (1846) ; Zell., "Linn. Ent.," vii., pp. 

 332, 343 (1852) ; H.-Sch., " Sys. Bearb.," v., p. 26, pi. xi., 5-6 (1853), p. 88 (1854) ; 

 Frey, " Die Tineen," &c, p. 13 (1856) ; " Lep. der Schweiz," p. 335 (1880) ; Sta., 

 "List Br. An. B. M.," xvi., 5 (1854) ; "Ins. Brit.," p. 19, pi. i., Sa-c (1854) ; 

 "Man.," ii., p. 285 (1859); ? " Tin. N. Amer.," 181 (1872); Hofni., " Berl. Ent. 

 Zeits.," iv., pp. 35-40 (I860) ; ? Clemens, " Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil.," i., p. 132 (1862) ; 

 Wocke, " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," xxiii., p. 68 (1862) ; Hein., " Schmett. Deutsch. 

 Tin.," p. 21 (1870) ; " Tin.," 2, Tab. p. 1 (1876) ; Nolck., "Lep. Fn. Est.," p. 467 

 (1871) ; Staud. and Wocke, "Cat.," p. 266 (1871) ; Mill., " Cat. Lep. Alp.-Mar.," 

 p. 295 (1875) ; Wallgrn., " Bih. Vet.-Ak. Handl.," iii., p. 32 (1875) ; ? Chamb., 

 "Bull. U. S. G. Surv.," iv., p. 162 (1878) ; Sand, " Cat. Lep. Auv.," p. 154 (1879) ; 

 ?Pack., "Guide," 7th ed., pp. 345-6 (1880); Snell., "De Vlind.,'' pp. 416, 444-5 

 (1882) ; Pey., " Cat. Lep. Als.," 2nd ed., p. 83 (1882) ; Sorh., "Die Kleinschmett. 

 Brand.," p. 140 (1886); ? Riley, "Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am.," p. 95 (1891); 

 Meyr., "Handbook," p. 774 (1895) ; Barr., "Ent. Mo. Mag.," xxxi., p. 163 (1895); 

 xxxiii., p. 125 (1897) ; Chapmn., Ibid., xxxii., p. 79 (1896); Drnt., Ibid., xxxiii., 

 p. 220 (1897); Beutti, "Lep. Bad.," 2nd ed., p. 305 (1898). Taleporia, in part, 

 Hb., "Verz.," p. 400 (1826). Talaeporia, in part, Zell., " Isis," 1839, p. 182 ; 

 Pritt., " Ber. Schles. Tauschver. Schmett.," iv., p. 15 (1843) ; Hoyell, Ibid., viii., 

 p. 13 (1846) ; Sta., "Cat.," p. 6 (1849) ; " Ent. Comp.," pp. 10, 16, 27, 28 (1852) ; 

 "Zool.," 1849, p. lxi ; 1850, p. 2788. Talocporia, Gn., " Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.," 

 2nd ser., iv., p. 12 (1846). Psyche, in part, Brd., " Mon. des Psych.," p. 107 (1853). 



This genus was named by Duponchel, who diagnosed it as follows : 



Solenobia, Dup. (Psyche et Fumea, Steph. Psyche, Curt., Ochs., Treits. Talae- 

 poria, Zell.). Antennes des males tres rinement ciliees ou pectinees ; antennes des 

 femelles h'liformes. Palpes droits, longs, velus. Trompe nulle. Les quatre ailes non 

 transparentes, et brievement frangees ; les superieures en ovale allonge ; les infe- 

 rieures plus courtes. Femelles absolument apteres." He then goes on to say: 

 " This genus is analogous with that of the Psychids (p. 65), and perhaps the 

 greater part of the species contained in section A (pulla, plumella, nitidella, 

 radiella, bombycella, pectinella, calvella, nudella, pseudobombycella, politella, muri- 

 nelia) of this last genus would be better placed in this than in the one in which 

 they find themselves. Although this is so, the Solenobias differ from the (Macro-) 

 Psychids, not only by their well-developed palpi and their more elongated and non- 

 transparent wings, but also by the food-plant of the larvae, which consists of lichen, 

 and by the appearance of their cases which are smooth in place of the clothing of 

 pieces of leaves or stems as in the Psyches. On the other hand the cases vary 

 inter se, some form capuchons, others are elongated, some cylindrical, others 

 tr on 1, md souie tetragonal" [Duponchel, Cat. Met., p. 358 (1846)]. 



i 1 he species included by Duponchel in the genus are : " clathrella, 

 Tr., Lichenella, Linn, {triquetrella, Hb.), lapidieella, Zell. (lichenum, 

 Schrank), pseudobombycella, Hb. (jjlabrella, Ochs.), anderref/yella, D., 

 left'bvriella, D., minorella, D., pectinatella, D., undulella, F. v. K." 

 U i ugh not diagnosed until 184G, Duponchel used the name at least 

 four years previously. Thus we find that he describes {Hint. Nat., 



