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liis ‘ EjitoniologiiB Faunoe Suecic® de- 
scriptionibus auctii;’ but from that time 
it was lost sight of till Professor Zeller, 
ill 1850, again brought it to light. 
About the year 1816 Hiibuer figured 
a Tinea Zieylerella, which clearly refers 
to some species of the genus Cosmopleri/x, 
but no reference to this figure occurs till 
the ‘ Isis’ of 1839. 
In 1829 Haworth, in his ‘ Lepidoptera 
Brilaunica,’ described a Gracillaria ex- 
imia, clearly a species of Cosmopteryx, 
but difficult to recognise with certainty 
were it not for the fact that one species 
has continnously done duty in our col- 
lections, from the time of Haworth to 
the present day, as the Eximia of 
Haworth. 
Haworth describes his insect as having 
the base of the anterior wings, “ with a 
broad changeable fascia, now gold, now 
black,” which accords with no known 
species of the genus. The apical streak 
he describes as going from the inner 
margin “ usque ad apicem,” which, if 
rigorously interpreted, would imply an 
uninterrupted streak. 
Stephens, in his ‘ Illustrations,’ gives 
a description of a Glyphipteryx eximia, 
remarking that “this description is drawn 
up from ‘Lepidoptera Britaunica,’ with 
slight alterations to agree with the only 
. known specimens.” He remarks, “ I 
have seen two examples only of this 
truly beautiful species; one of them was 
in the collection of the late Mr. Haworth, 
and was taken near London ; the other 
is in my own cabinet, having taken it in 
July, 1827, in Holme Wood Lane, near 
llipley.” 
Up to this time, 1834, two British 
specimens, the deseriptions of Hawoith 
and Stephens, Hubner’s figure of Ziey- 
lerella, and the Fabrician description of 
Drurella, was the sum total of what 
was known of the present genus Cos- 
mopteryx ! ! 
In 1839 Zeller observed, in the ‘ Isis,’ 
p. 210, of Zieylerella, Hiibner, “ I took 
six specimens of this wonderfully beauti- 
ful species (very badly represented by 
Hiibner) at Spitzberg, in Juue, in the 
evening, amongst raspberry bushes.” 
In 1844 Eversmann published his 
‘Fauna Lepidopterologica Volga-Ural- 
ensis,’ in which we find (p. 596) an 
CEcophora Zieylerella ; he refers to 
Hubner’s figure, but describes the an- 
terior wings as black, with the extreme 
base and a basal fascia “ shining brassy 
now Hiibner represents the extreme 
base black ! 
During all this time no one seems to 
have had the most remote suspicion that 
there were two or more closely allied spe- 
cies of Cosmopteryx, and hence the exist- 
ing descriptions and figures are so un- 
satisfactory that at present we cannot 
decide with any certainty what insects 
these older authors really had before 
them. But in the ‘ Isis’ of 1846, Zeller 
described the pretty Lieniyiella, and in 
the ‘ Entomologische Zeiiung ’ for 1850, 
he described minutely Druryella (the 
species which he had introduced in the 
‘ Isis ’ of 1839 as Zieylerella), and a new 
species, Scribaiella, which had occurred 
at Vienna. 
The character of his Druryella being 
“ anterior wings black, with the base 
brassy, an orange fascia in the middle, 
edged with golden, and a bluish silvery 
apical line.” 
The character of his Scribaiella being 
“ anterior wings brown, with leaden- 
coloured streaks at the base, an orange 
fascia in the middle, edged with golden, 
with a golden line prolonged to tho 
apex.” 
Scribaiella forms a connecting link 
