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a little further back near the costal margin, another on the dorsal margin 

 about the middle, and a small costal one opposite to it, and a wide band 

 around the apex of the ciliae, of the same iridescent brown with the head 

 and thorax. Ciliae dark brown, of a different hue from the band at their 

 base ; this band and the costal and dorsal spots are margined by some 

 deep maroon brown scales. Sides and under surface of the thorax red- 

 dish orange. Abdomen and legs of the same hue with the head and 

 wing spots, and the metathoracic legs have a reddish orange patch on the 

 anterior surface of the tibiae. Al. ex. ^ inch. Season, August. A very 

 pretty little species. 



Perhaps I am wrong in placing Aetole among the Elachistidas, as I 

 am not certain that it does not more properly belong with Tinagma, 

 Perittia, Douglasia, &c, which Mr. Stainton, in Ins. Brit, v. 3, has placed 

 in the family Glyphipterygidce. But neither in the brief accounts there 

 given, nor in the figures can I discover any reason for separating these 

 genera from Elachistidse ; nor, from the formation of such a heterogenous 

 group as Mr. Stainton's Glyphipterygidae seems to me to be, Acrolepia, 

 Roslerstammia, Glyphipteryx and even Aechmia seem to me to belong as 

 properly in Gelechidae as Butalis does, and more properly than do either 

 Pleurota or Harpella. On the other hand, Douglasia, Perittia and 

 Tinagma might be placed in Elachistidse with perhaps as much propriety 

 as Heliodines, Bedellia, Chrysoclista or Asychna. As to some of these 

 genera, as Tinagma, Perittia, Antispila, &c.,it seems to me there is much 

 force in the suggestion of Dr. Clemens in one of his letters, published by 

 Mr. Stainton in his edition of the Clemens' Papers, to separate them from 

 Glyphipterygidas, and form, by their combination with some genera now 

 included in Lyonetidae, a new and more homogenous genus. As before 

 hinted, Lyonetidas does not seem to me to be a much more homogenous 

 group than the Glyphipterygidae. 



But I do not pretend to criticise the work of much better Micro- 

 Ledidopterists than I ever expect to be. These are simply my reflections 

 on reading some of the writings of Mr. Stainton and Dr. Clemens, the 

 only authorities within my reach. Glyphipteryx impigritella Clem., two, 

 or at most, three species of Lyonetia, a few of Antispila and Butalis, are 

 the only genera above named which are known to be represented in this 

 country ; and for the other genera above named I have no authority to 

 consult but Mr. Stainton. Aetole bella resembles closely the European 

 Chrysoclista lineella. 



