cl Pomeranian Species 



Art. XXVI. — A List of the Pomeranian Species of the Genus 

 Lithocolletis ; together with Descriptions of some Species of 

 this Genus not mentioned in Zeller's Monograph. By G. von 

 Nicelli, of Berlin.* 



The genus Lithocolletis will now number nearly fifty species, which 

 are all distributed over Germany, Scandinavia, Livonia, England, 

 France and Italy. The Italian Lithocolletides, as also the Italian 

 Microptera generally, have been made known by German naturalists. 

 Of the French authors, Duponchel was the first who, in his Cata- 

 logue of 1844, after Zeller's example, placed the Lithocolletides sepa- 

 rate from the Elachistae ; and in England, Stainton first placed them 

 as a separate genus in his e Systematic Catalogue of Britsh Tineidse,' 

 after, even in 1848, he had described them in the ( Zoologist' mixed 

 with Lyonetiae and Cemiostomse, &c, under the generic name Argy- 

 romiges. Of other European countries, the larger Microptera are 

 hardly known to us, much less these small species, which appear to 

 require so much care and trouble. Even in Germany, the treatment 

 of the lower groups of Tineidae is much neglected, since only a few 

 individuals venture upon them, whose labours are however crowned 

 with such astonishing success. 



In my note on the Pomeranian species, I am obliged to confine 

 myself to my own observations, which naturally cannot be very nume- 

 rous ; yet, I lay before the reader a catalogue of twenty-six species, 

 the result of two years' labour, 



Were I not shortly leaving our rich localities, I might expect in 

 some years to find out a still greater number. 



I have permitted myself to alter slightly the arrangement of the 

 species, in consequence of the introduction of some species omitted 

 in Zeller's Monograph (Linn. Ent. i. 166), which are described in the 

 annexed treatise. 



The species met with are as follows : — 



Lithocolletis. 



1. roboris, Z. 5. coryli, [m.) 



2. Saportella, Dupch. 6. pomifoliella, Tischer. 



3. AmyotelJa, Dupch. 7. pomonella, Zell. 



4. distentella, F. v. R. 8. ulmifoliella, Hiibn. 



* Translated from the Stettin ' Entomologische Zeitung' for February, 1851, pp. 

 34 —f> 1 . By fl. T. S i a i n j o \ , Esq. 



