STERRHOPTERIX HIRSUTELLA. 



431 



(Speyer),* Hanover (Glitz), Alsace (Peyerimhoff), Steigerwald, near Erfurt (Werne- 

 burg), Brunswick (Heinemann), Gottingen, Hanau, Aix, Krefeld, Elberfeld, 

 Nordhausen, Osterode (Jordan), Baden, distributed, Nassau (Reutti), Prater (Zell. 

 coll.), Lissa (Mann), Osswitz near Breslau, Bohrau near Oels, Leubusch near 

 Brieg, Panten near Liegnitz, Parchwitz, Freiburg (Standfuss), Munich 

 (Hartmann), Erlangen, Etterhausen near Ratisbon, Marksteft in Unterfranken 

 (Hofmann), Grubenhagen (Paul and Plotz), Cranz (Riesen), Hildesheim 

 (Grote), Bavarian Palatinate (Bertram), Heeswaldungen (Stolhverck), Wildpark near 

 Carlsruhe (Gauckler). Italy: Val Bregaglia, &c. (Curo), Lombardy — Brianza, 

 Milan (Turati), Modena, Casinalbo (Fiori), Piedmont (Herrich-Schaffer), south 

 side of Simplon (Wackerzapp). Netherlands: Eastern provinces of Holland — 

 Breda, &c, rather common in woods (Heylaerts), Oisterwijk (Oudemans), Empen 

 near Zutphen (Snellen). Rodmania : Slanic (Caradja). Russia: St. Petersburg 

 (Erschoff), Baltic Provinces (Sintenis), near Kokenhusen, Neuhof (Nolcken), Wolmar 

 (Lutzau), Livonia (Zell. coll.), Lappea (Petersen), Dorpat, Neu Kasseritz, St. 

 Petersburg, Finland (Sintenis). Scandinavia: Norway and Sweden, rare — Dovre 

 in Norway (Wocke), Arctic Norway (Petersen). Switzerland : Up to 5000ft. 

 (Frey), Grisons (Killias), Prad (Speyer), Simplon (Jaggi), Chasserol (Couleru), 

 Bernese Alps (Rothenbach), Engadine (Zeller-Dolder), Bechburg (Riggenbach- 

 Stehlin), Oftringen (Wullschlegel), Zurich (Frey), Hottingen (Riihl), ?Bergun 

 (Zeller). 



Explanation of Plate VI. 

 We have in various places in our account of the Psychids shown 

 the importance of the antennal structures in their classification (see, 

 ante, pp. 273, 299-300, 337, 371, 413). Plate vi (for which we are 

 indebted to Dr. Chapman) exhibits the main characters of the Psychic! 

 antenna. The antenna? shown are : 



Fig. la-b. — Portion of antenna of Luffia 

 lapidella. There are two pectina- 

 tions to each joint arising near its 

 base and rather ventrally than 

 laterally. The pectinations are 

 slightly clubbed and clothed on all 

 aspects with sense-hairs. The 

 scaling is confined to the shaft on 

 its dorsal aspect, four rows of scales 

 not very strictly arranged to each 

 segment or joint. 



Fig. 2. — Portion of antenna of Bacotia 

 sepium. Agrees with preceding, in 

 arrangement of scales and hairs, the 

 pectinations are more nearly lateral 

 out still nearer the venter than 

 opposite each other ; the pectinations 

 are clothed so as to give a special 

 square aspect to the divisions of the 

 antenna. 



Fig. 'da-b. — Portion of antenna of Proutia 

 betnlina. Similar distribution of 



hairs and scales as in the two 

 preceding, the pectinations are 

 longer and have little or no clubbing. 



Fig. 4. — Portion of antenna of Fumea 

 casta. The antenna is very like the 

 last in general form, but has scales 

 instead of hairs along the whole 

 dorsum of the pectinations, making 

 them look thicker and even some- 

 what clubbed, due, however, to the 

 scales being rather more abundant 

 apically. 



Fig. 5. — Portion of antenna of Acantho- 

 psyclie opacella. The pectinations 

 are much longer and more flowing 

 than in last. In Psychinae such 

 pectinations are scaled (often hair- 

 scales) as in Fumea. In Acantho- 

 psychinae such scaling has been 

 lost and the dorsum is naked except 

 for an occasional tactile bristle. 



PsYCHIDES. 



Catalogue of the PALiEARCTic Psychides.+ 



Naryctidae. 



* Standfuss considers that the elevated localities — Trafoi 4000ft., Styrian 

 mts., Altvater and Leiterberg — given by Speyer (Geog. Verb. Schmett., ii., p. 278) 

 are possibly incorrect, and thinks that they may perhaps all be referred to stand- 

 fussi. This he asserts is certainly so in the case of Altvater and Leiterberg, whence 

 he himself has specimens. 



f In compiling this list we have been much hampered by the incomplete state 

 of the material in this group in the British Museum collection, and by the fact that 

 some species are erroneously placed, and many of the cases evidently attached to 

 imagines to which they can scarcely belong. We found, for example Ptiloeephala 

 atra, Linn, (plumifera, Ochs.), united in the same series with Ptiloeephala angustella, 

 H.-Sch. (alra, Esp.), the latter species not even having a specimen above the name 

 in the collection. The position we have given some species, especially among the 

 Oreopsychids has been determined by reference to figures and descriptions only. 



