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Tineid^. — Freyer (Beitr. 378-384) has separated from each other the 
nearly allied species of Ypomeneuta : Jielicella, Fr. {rorella, Hiib.), 
padella, malinella, cognatella, evonymella. He has also (ibid. t. 404) 
figured a new species, Phycis wagnerella, from Turkey. 
Fischer von Rosslerstamm (Abbild. Ft. 20) has illustrated Lita 
terella, W. Vz., Rhinosia juniperella, L., Palpula rostrella, Hiib., 
and the following new species : Lampros monastricella, found on high 
hills at Vienna ; Elachista treitschJciella, at Vienna, flying over the 
Cornus mascula ; Ypsolophus dolosellus, hinotellus, separatellus, impa- 
rellus, also from the neighbourhood of Vienna. 
The same author (Ent. Zeit. p. 200) has also shown, that many species 
have been confounded under Ochsenheimeria ( Phygas ) taurella, which 
he has carefully separated and amply described : 0. taurella, W. Vz,, 
and urella, Heyd. (new species), have rough scaly antennas : vacculella, 
Heyd. [taurella, Hiib. f. 188), has smooth ones ; the last has been con- 
founded with the true taurella, W. Vz., by Treischke, Duponchel, and 
Zeller ; a fourth species, still more deviating, but allied to taurella, is 
0. huhalella, Hiib. f. 376 (erroneously 276). The earlier states of all 
the species are unknown. 
The history of the development of the Gelechia lapella, Linn., has 
been given by Loew (Entom. Zeit. p. 257), and a very full description 
of the fly by Zeller (ibid. p. 259). The latter is of importance, as the 
insect varies greatly. The fly of the same name of the Vienna Catal., 
Hiibner, Fabricius, and Stephens, belongs to Tin. ganomella, Tr. On 
the other hand, Qel. oistivella, Mtzn., Zell., is identical with G. lapella, 
Linn. Loew found the caterpillar in the heads of burs ; but Zeller found 
the fly in places where no burs were near, where, therefore, the cater- 
pillar must, in all probability, have had some other nidus. 
Von Heyden spoke, at the meeting of Naturalists at Mainz, upon the 
genus Nepticula, Heyd., and Fischeria, Zell. To the former belong 
T. aurella, F., argentipedella, Zell., centifoliella, Heyd., sericopeza, 
Zell., sociella, Heyd. Their caterpillars have only two pairs of in- 
complete legs, and six pairs of abdominal props. The caterpillar of 
the N. centifoliella, already known by Degeer and Goze, has lately 
erroneously been taken for a parasitical larva. In some species the 
caterpillar has not arrived at its full growth in autumn ; when the other 
leaves wither, these still retain their necessary nourishment, so that the 
cellular tissue in the circumference of their habitation remains green. 
The caterpillars of Fischeria are quite destitute of feet (Amtl. Bericht., 
&c. p. 208). 
Eversmann has described some new species from the west of Russian 
Asia (Bull. Mosc. 1842, p. 563) ; Chilo acutellus, Phycis squalidella, 
propinquella, Adela auropulverella. 
Guerin and Perrotet have laid before the Parisian Academy a paper 
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