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dried) yellowish-brown, the ovipositor and dirty yellowish-white anal 

 tuft (wool) are on the underside of the anal segment (Zeller). 



Comparison of S. mannii with S. clathrella and S. pineti. — Most 

 like S. clathrella, but with smaller head, lighter body, less rounded, 

 more closely and distinctly reticulated fore wings. It differs from S. 

 pineti in its somewhat larger size, stronger build, and the somewhat 

 larger whitish-grey spots with narrower dividing lines, giving the 

 markings a distinctly latticed appearance. S. mannii is less than 

 S. clathrella in size, and is also of more delicate appearance. Head 

 shaggy with grey hairs on the crown and face ; the antennae as in S. 

 clathrella (Zeller). Chapman notes that the S. mannii in Constant's 

 collection are "rather smaller and paler, slightly reddish, very delicate, 

 otherwise not unlike, superficially, a small T. tubulosa ; the case, how- 

 ever, smaller, indistinctly trigonal, except at one end." 



Case. — The cases in the Stainton collections are 9 , 4mm. long and 

 2-3mm. wide, almost cylindrical in outline, covered Avith particles of 

 stone, &c. Zeller says that " the cases are formed almost alike in both 

 sexes ; that of the $ is 4^'" long, that of the ? is 4'". The surface 

 is covered with black particles of earth and lichen and with small grains 

 of sand, sprinkled amongst them. The cases are somewhat long, 

 bluntly trigonal (but with rounded ends) slightly spindle-shaped, with 

 a more distinct dorsal edge and flattened ventral side, at the hinder 

 end somewhat more pointed than in front. They consequently differ 

 extraordinarily from the cases of S. clathrella, and from those of S. 

 triquetrella by their greater length and more slender form. That the 

 cases belong to the species here described as S. mannii is certain, for 

 from a $■ case which I received from Mann, the imago, having failed to 

 emerge, had one of its forewings fully-developed, hanging from the 

 pupa-case, whilst the other wings, crippled, were sticking partly in the 

 pupa- case." 



Time of appearance. — March and April, 1863, flying in the morning 

 sun at Vienna (Mann). Mann also took the species in middle April 

 flying in the morning sunshine in bushy places on mountain ridges near 

 Brussa. Staudinger doubts whether these were really quite identical 

 with the Austrian S. mannii. He adds that the single Macedonian 

 Solenobia he has, appears to be S. inconspicuella. Cases on rocks in 

 April near Vienna (Herrich-Schaffer), May 23rd, 1865, in woods near 

 Lemberg in Galicia (Nowicki), end of March and April at Colmar 

 (Peyerimhoft).* Cases on trunks and palings in April and May at 

 Grumazesti (Caradja). 



Distribution. — Asia Minor : Brussa (Mann). Austro-Hungary : Vienna, 

 Modling (Mann), Galicia — Lemberg (Nowicki). ? France (Duponchel). Ger- 

 many: Alsace — Florimont, near Colmar, limestone hills of the Vosges(Peyerimhoff). 

 Roumania : Grumazesti (Caradja). 



Solenobia pallida, Staudinger. 



Synonymy. — Species : Pallida, Staud., '• Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross.," xv., p. 268 

 (1879). 



Original description. — Talaeporia pallida, Stgr., n. sp. Ich brachte 

 ein am 10 Mai, wahrscheinlich hinter unserem Hause gefangenes 

 frisches Stuck mit, das einer neuen Art angehort, und sandte Johann 



* Peyerimhoff says that Heinemann's description agrees with the Alsace speci- 

 mens except for the colour, which is slaty-grey and not clear grey. 



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