﻿OXYPTILUS 
  PARVIDACTYLA, 
  417 
  

  

  the 
  hinder 
  edge 
  ; 
  at 
  both 
  places, 
  latticed 
  with 
  a 
  couple 
  of 
  black 
  scale- 
  

   patches. 
  As 
  these 
  small 
  scale-areas 
  are 
  larger, 
  he 
  says, 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  purer 
  

   white, 
  than 
  in 
  our 
  specimens, 
  and 
  must 
  be 
  even 
  more 
  conspicuous 
  in 
  fresh 
  

   specimens, 
  one 
  suspects 
  that 
  the 
  Asiatic 
  specimens 
  may 
  possibly 
  form 
  

   a 
  distinct 
  species. 
  Later, 
  in 
  1852, 
  Zeller 
  {Linn. 
  Knt., 
  vi., 
  p. 
  855) 
  

   referred 
  this 
  specimen 
  to 
  marginellus, 
  as 
  noted 
  by 
  Staudinger 
  (postea). 
  

   Zeller 
  also 
  notes 
  (op. 
  cit., 
  p. 
  355) 
  that 
  a 
  $ 
  of 
  P. 
  dentellus, 
  Mann, 
  

   from 
  Fiume, 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  black 
  scale-tuft 
  on 
  the 
  3rd 
  plumule 
  of 
  the 
  

   hind 
  wing 
  is 
  triangular, 
  is 
  not 
  specifically 
  distinct 
  from 
  obscurus 
  ; 
  he 
  

   says 
  that 
  examples 
  of 
  this 
  kind 
  occur 
  among 
  the 
  ^ 
  s 
  at 
  Glogau. 
  This 
  

   specimen, 
  he 
  says, 
  belongs 
  to 
  var. 
  p, 
  diagnosed 
  as 
  " 
  digiti 
  tertii 
  medio 
  

   albido." 
  Of 
  this 
  form 
  Snellen 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  3rd 
  plumule 
  is 
  always 
  

   paler 
  before 
  the 
  black 
  scale-tuft, 
  but 
  sometimes 
  white, 
  when 
  it 
  forms 
  

   the 
  var. 
  p 
  of 
  Zeller." 
  [Rossler 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  specimens 
  from 
  Lorch 
  

   and 
  the 
  Dennelbachthal, 
  near 
  Wiesbaden, 
  appear 
  to 
  belong 
  to 
  a 
  

   different 
  species 
  ; 
  in 
  size 
  they 
  sometimes 
  approach 
  that 
  of 
  hieracii, 
  

   although 
  usually 
  smaller, 
  and 
  the 
  grey 
  colour 
  is 
  more 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  

   tristis 
  ; 
  otherwise 
  they 
  agree 
  with 
  obscurus, 
  except 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  

   distinguished 
  by 
  the 
  black 
  margins 
  to 
  all 
  the 
  white 
  marks 
  on 
  their 
  

   inner 
  edge 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  3rd 
  plumule, 
  in 
  comparison 
  with 
  

   that 
  of 
  obscurus, 
  is 
  beset 
  to 
  a 
  greater 
  extent, 
  on 
  both 
  sides, 
  with 
  

   black 
  scales 
  ; 
  and 
  they 
  are 
  certainly 
  larger.] 
  Zeller 
  records 
  it 
  from 
  

   Sicily, 
  in 
  May 
  and 
  July, 
  Asia 
  Minor, 
  near 
  Macri, 
  and 
  Brussa 
  ; 
  

   the 
  $ 
  in 
  Zeller's 
  possession, 
  from 
  Brussa, 
  was 
  caught 
  in 
  July. 
  

   Staudinger 
  states 
  (Hor. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Ross., 
  xv., 
  pp. 
  426-7) 
  that, 
  " 
  on 
  the 
  

   strength 
  of 
  eleven 
  specimens 
  captured 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  1875, 
  from 
  the 
  

   beginning 
  of 
  May 
  until 
  after 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  June, 
  and 
  found 
  in 
  great 
  

   variety 
  almost 
  everywhere, 
  in 
  Amasia, 
  and 
  forwarded 
  to 
  Wocke, 
  the 
  

   latter 
  determined 
  nine 
  to 
  be 
  parvidactyla, 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  two 
  to 
  be 
  new 
  

   species, 
  one 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  a 
  species 
  allied 
  to 
  obscurus, 
  the 
  other 
  to 
  

   hieracii. 
  In 
  1876, 
  he 
  (Wocke) 
  determined 
  seven 
  more 
  of 
  the 
  specimens 
  

   as 
  marginellus, 
  Zell., 
  but 
  stated 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  that 
  he 
  considered 
  the 
  latter 
  

   to 
  be 
  only 
  a 
  southern 
  form 
  of 
  parvidactyla 
  ," 
  and, 
  in 
  this, 
  Staudinger 
  con- 
  

   sidered 
  him 
  to 
  be 
  quite 
  right. 
  "Zeller, 
  too," 
  he 
  says, 
  "referred 
  the 
  

   specimen 
  caught 
  by 
  Loew, 
  near 
  Macri 
  [which 
  he 
  at 
  first 
  quoted 
  with 
  

   his 
  Asia 
  Minor 
  examples 
  as 
  obscurus 
  (parvidactyla)] 
  , 
  later 
  on, 
  in 
  his 
  

   Monograph, 
  to 
  marginellus, 
  and 
  thus 
  his 
  two 
  Asia 
  Minor 
  Oxyptilid 
  

   species 
  share 
  the 
  same 
  fate 
  as 
  his 
  two 
  Asia 
  Minor 
  Anchinia 
  (Pleurota) 
  

   insects, 
  in 
  not 
  being 
  the 
  species 
  as 
  quoted 
  by 
  him 
  at 
  first. 
  I 
  

   merely 
  mention 
  all 
  this 
  confusion 
  to 
  show 
  the 
  great 
  uncertainty 
  

   prevailing 
  about 
  these 
  Oxyptilid 
  species. 
  Moeschler's 
  hoffmannseggi 
  is 
  

   nothing 
  else 
  but 
  marginellus, 
  hardly 
  a 
  variety 
  thereof. 
  Brunneodactylus, 
  

   Mill., 
  like 
  didactylus, 
  and 
  even 
  pit 
  o 
  sell 
  ae, 
  hieracii, 
  and 
  ericetorum, 
  

   appears 
  to 
  me 
  to 
  be 
  far 
  from 
  having 
  been 
  proved 
  a 
  distinct 
  species: 
  

   maculatus, 
  Const., 
  too, 
  also 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  doubtful, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  teucni 
  

   sent 
  to 
  me 
  by 
  Jordan; 
  iind 
  tristis 
  and 
  kollari 
  require 
  very 
  oareful 
  in 
  

   vestigation, 
  e.g., 
  there 
  are, 
  in 
  Lederer's 
  collection, 
  examples 
  of 
  mar- 
  

   ginellus 
  from 
  Amasia 
  amongst 
  the 
  kollari, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  others 
  from 
  North 
  

   Persia, 
  also 
  placed 
  under 
  kollari. 
  Ahum 
  records 
  parvidactylus 
  as 
  being 
  

   taken 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  April 
  near 
  Amasia, 
  and 
  in 
  May 
  notscarcenear 
  Brussa." 
  

   Staudinger 
  further 
  notes 
  that 
  he 
  l< 
  also 
  received 
  a 
  somewhat 
  small, 
  

   typical 
  specimen 
  from 
  Kriiper, 
  taken 
  at 
  Smyrna, 
  which 
  is 
  referable 
  to 
  

   the 
  small 
  species 
  described 
  by 
  Mann, 
  or 
  Zeller, 
  as 
  dentellus, 
  hut 
  this 
  

  

  