264 BKITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



trunks of oak, elm, and poplar, in April and May in the Dept. du 

 Nord. 



Time op appearance. — The last week in June and commencement 

 of July. July 10th, 1877, from case obtained in Worcestershire 

 (Stainton) ; a male on July 31st, 1888, at Merton (Walsingham) ; 

 June 20th and July 2nd, 1899, a ? on each day (Tutt) ; June 30th a 

 male, July 1st a male, July 6th a female, July 8th a female (Bacot) ; 

 June 28th a male, July 3rd two males, July 5th two females, July 14th a 

 male (Chapman) ; July 15th-30th, 1869, in the Netherlands (Snellen). 

 July in Nassau (Bossier) ; larvae in May, imagines in July, in Han- 

 over (Glitz) ; the larva pupates about the end of May or beginning of 

 June, the imago emerging at the end of July (Zeller) ; pupates in 

 June, the imago appearing towards the end of July (Bruand) ; 

 generally distributed in Baden in July (Beutti) ; larvse on lichen- 

 covered palings in May and June, imago in July, at Munich 

 (Hartmann). 



Distribution. — Austro-Hungary : Galicia — Lemberg (Garbowski), Vienna 

 (Lederer teste Speyer). Belgium: Louvain, Brussels (Fre). Denmark: (Hedeman). 

 France : North France (Const, coll.), Dept. du Nord, common (Paux), Aube (Jourd- 

 heuille), Doubs (Bruand), Douai (Foucart), Besancon (Guenee), Chevigney-sur- 

 l'Ognon, Seuley near Grand- Vaire, Foret de Chaux near Fraisans (Bruand). 

 Germany : Bavaria (Const, coll.), Munich (Hartmann), Upper Saxon Lusatia — 

 Bachlau (Schiitze), Nassau (Bossier), Arolsen, Brunswick, Silesia, Baden (Heine- 

 mann), Frankfort-on-Main, Wetterheim (Koch), Waldeck, near Ehoden, Wildungen, 

 Bamberg, Coburg, Karlsruhe, Freiburg (Speyer), Bremen (Behberg), Silesia, Dresden, 

 Blasewitz (Wocke), Wiirtemberg, Breslau (Hofmann), Batisbon (Schmid), Alsace 

 (Peyerimhoff), Elberfeld, Trier (Jordan), Hanover (Glitz), Hildesheim (Grote). 

 Netherlands : common N. Brabant, Gelderland, Betuwe, Wageningen en Keppel 

 (Snellen), Breda (Heylaerts), Arnhem (Brants). Boumania : Kloster Neamtz, 

 Grumazesti (Caradja). Bussia : St. Petersburg (Erschoff). Switzerland: Zurich 

 (Frey). 



Localities. — Probably much more widely distributed than British collectors 

 suspect. Essex: Epping Forest (Doubleday teste Tompkins). Hants: New Forest 

 (W. H. B. Fletcher). Norfolk: Merton (Walsingham). Surrey: Mickleham 

 (Tompkins). Worcester: Old Hills (J. E, Fletcher). 



Group II : MACEO-PSYCHINA. 



Having finished our study of the more generalised section of the 

 Psychides, we have now to consider the more specialised. As we have 

 already pointed out, there is no very sharp line of demarcation dividing 

 the Micro- and Macro-Psychids, the Bttffiidae and Fumeidae presenting 

 characters in some ways intermediate" between them, and as we have 

 selected the structural pupal characters and general appearance of the 

 larval case to retain the Luffiids in the former group, so we shall 

 maintain these characters to justify our retention of the Fumeids in 

 the latter group ; at the same time we may note that Chapman points 

 out that there is a good neurational distinction between the two, since 

 the Micro-Psychids always have the small cell in the apical angle of 



* Dissoctena is another intermediate form, which Chapman considers to repre- 

 sent " a side branch from Taleporia but with some characters that might tempt one 

 to place it a little above Proutia and more on the direct line to Psyche than Fumea 

 is. It is really a Micro-Psychid, the male with a very large apical cell, within the 

 discoidal cell. It has also the accessory cell (due to the branching median), as 

 have Proutia, and the Oiketicids. Its antennas have long pectinations scaled to the 

 tips, and it has lost the anterior tibial spines (an occurrence one scarcely expected 

 to observe in a genus still possessing an araneiform iemale whose pupa emerges as 

 in the lower Micro-Psychids). One can only look upon these vagaries of evolution 



