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sowie der Eaupensack ist mir unbekamit. Diese kleinste Talaeporia, die ich kenne, 

 ist vielleicht nur T. lapicidella, liber welche Guenee im 4ten Bande der neuen 

 Reihe der Annates de la Soc. Entom., p. 14, Folgendes schreibt : Talaeporia, B. 

 antennis [maris] valde pectinatis : Lapidicella [Lapicidella'], Zell., in not., 

 Reaum. [!], Geoffr. [!] * — Pectinella, Dup., Suppl. (non aliorum auctor). Statura 

 vix stelliferellae. Alae anticae albogriseae nitidulae, strigulis inaequalibus, puncto 

 cellulari maculaque apicali obscurioribus. Posticae albidae, corpus cinereum. 

 Follieulum [!] conicum, recurvum, breve, granis undique conspersum. Fern. 

 fusco-rubricans, scutulo brunneo. Das durch die Schrift Ausgezeichnete in der 

 Beschreibung weicht von meinem Exemplar der conspurcatella, ab. — Duponchel's 

 Abbildung (supp. iv., pi. 89, fig, 6, Solenobia pectinella) lasst sich aben so wenig 

 wie seine Beschreibung mit Sicherheit hierher bringen ; in beiden fehlt der dunkle 

 Fleck der Vorderrliigel] (Zeller, Stettin. Entomologische Zeitung, 1850, pp. 59-60). 



Zeller notes (Linn. Ent., vii., p. 356) conspurcatella as being as 

 small as S. inconspicuella, but very recognisable by its ochreous-yellow 

 colour and the strongly fringed antennae. The body yellowish-brown 

 with pale ochreous-brown hairs, antennae and legs. The antennae have 

 long joints, thickened at the ends, and in each thickening two tufts of 

 rather long, stiff, pale hairs, whereby they appear as two rows of inter- 

 rupted, tufted fringes!'. The forewings 2-f"', elongate, with a very 

 rounded anal angle, slightly convex hind margin and rounded apex, 

 pale dirty-yellow, very slightly glossy, with many rather coarse yellow- 

 brown spots, which, however, appear as spotlets (Piinktchen) to the 

 naked eye and are somewhat more closely placed at the hind margin 

 than elsewhere. A brown dot, increased to a patch by a lighter shade 

 surrounding it, forms the discoidal lunule. Fringes brown-grey, pale 

 yellow exteriorly. The hindwings narrow, scarcely widened beyond 

 the middle, with a slightly rounded apex, very pale grey in colour. 

 The underside of all the wings, shiny, unicolorous yellow-brownish- 

 grey (Zeller). Mann discovered the species in Tuscany, at Pratolino 

 and Pratovecchio near Florence, on a wall of overhanging rocks by 

 the Arno, capturing about twenty males in March, 1846, in the morn- 

 ing, in dull weather. 



Comparison of B. staintoni with B. vernella and B. montanella. 

 — Closely allied as are B. staintoni and B. conspurcatella, it would 

 appear that B. vernella and B. montanella are equally closely allied to 

 them. Stainton considered that specimens of a Bankesia obtained at 

 Fontainebleau were referable to B. staintoni. Constant now says (Ent. 



* Wenn Auctoren auf diese Weise hinter einem Namen aufgefiihrt werden, so 

 bedeutet dies doch wohl, dass der Name bei ihnen vorkomme. Dies ist aber weder 

 bei Reaumur, noch bei Geoffroi der Fall (Zeller). 



f Chapman notes the antennae of B. staintoni as being somewhat different from 

 the description of those of B. conspurcatella as here given, but suspects that, when the 

 difficulties of obtaining an exact account of them are taken into consideration, they 

 are really meant to refer to it. He notes : " In dry specimens (staintoni), it is not easy 

 to be at all sure where the joints between the segments of the antennas occur, but 

 the sequence of parts is not affected by this difficulty — the only difference would be 

 in placing the joint at a different point in the sequence. Assuming a certain darker 

 transverse line to be the joint, then, dorsally, a little beyond this is a transverse 

 row of several scales, not reaching to the end of the segment, whilst beneath the 

 ends of these arises another row reaching beyond the end of the segment and past 

 the joint to the base of the first row of scales of the next segment. Ventrally, the 

 segment is thickened basally, and again slightly distally. The basal thickening carries 

 seven or eight long pale hairs (If times the length of segment) in an almost exact 

 transverse line, whilst beyond this are two rather shorter hairs on the more slender 

 middle of the segment, one beyond the other, and again, two or three shorter on the 

 terminal thickening, one or two similar ones preceding them^and about one-fourth 

 the length of the segment." 



