Insects. 2273 



Additional Remarks on the Genus Argyromiges. By H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Two of Zeller's species of Lithocollelis have been added to our list as British 

 during the past season, — Amyotella, Dup. (see Zool. 2080, note, A, No. 4) and scopa- 

 riella, Heyden (see Zool. 2080, note, B, No. 24) ; and besides these, two others, not 

 noticed by Zeller, have been detected by the untiring energy of Mr. Sircom : full 

 dscriptions of these shall appear as a supplementary paper ere long ; but as it is very 

 probable it may not be ready to be published in the ' Zoologist ' this year, I send this 

 notice, with a few remarks on sundry errors in my Monograph, and also notices of such 

 species as I have myself met with. 



1. lautella. I beat a single specimen out of an oak at Lewisham, August 6th : it is a 

 variety, the first pair of opposite spots being united and forming a fascia. 



•2. Schreberella. I took a single specimen at Lewisham on the 12th of August, beat- 

 ing it out of oak. 



3. ulmifoliella. I took two specimens on the Dartford Heath fence, April 19th; I 

 beat one out of hedges at Lewisham, May 8th ; one (probably from birches) at 

 Wickham, May 9th ; and took a wasted one on the Beckenham fence, on the 

 18th of May. 



7. JEmberizcepennella. I have taken only two specimens ; one on the 11th, the other 



on the 30th of May ; both beaten out of honeysuckle at Lewisham. 



8. tristrigella. I took two specimens on the Beckenham fence, on the 18th of May. 



9. Fvozlichiella. I beat one out of a hedge at Lewisham, May 25th. 



10. trifasciella. I beat one out of honeysuckle, on the 30th of May, at Lewisham; 



and took a wasted one on the Beckenham fence, on the 9th of June. 



11, 12. Messaniella and quercifoliella. Abundant throughout the summer, principally 



on oaks; but I have often beaten them out of very dissimilar food, where no oak 

 was near. I beat two specimens of Messaniella out of buckthorn, in May. I 

 have bred both these species from oak leaves. 

 15, 16. pomonella and pornifoliella. Every specimen of these species that I have seen 

 I have taken ; and hope, by careful examination of them, to throw more certain 

 light on their specific distinctness : among them are some which are probably 

 new species. 



18. Junoniella. Of this species I have taken four ; one flying near an oak, May 5th ; 



one beat out of hawthorn, May 6th ; another on the 8th ; and the fourth on the 

 10th of May, likewise out of hawthorn. 



19. alnifoliella. Of this species I beat about twenty out of some alders overhanging 



a small stream near Maltby, Yorkshire, July 21st. 



20. Cramerella. Abundant in May and June, on oaks ; in August more sparingly. 



21. tenellc. The insect figured and described is not the tenella of Zeller, but bis 



Heegeriella. Its synonymy should therefore staud thus : — 



Heegeriella, Zeller, Linn. Ent. i. 233, f. 28. 

 tenella, Stainton (non Z.), Zool. 2152. 



It has a dark basal streak, and the apical spot is oval. Of this species I have 



