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8. L. MINIMELLA, 11. Sp. 



The Lavennice, that is species which are allied to Laverna proper, 

 and which for want of a better location, we at present place in 

 Laverna, do not form an altogether homogenous group. Such species, 

 as b-cristatella above, and L. gleditschiceella differ structurally, as well 

 as in the presence of tufts on the wings of b-cristatella. Other species 

 have the palpi mnch thicker, or clothed with spreading scales, and 

 wide differences prevail in their ornamentation, b-cristatella and 

 gleditDchiceella, are dark, bronzy-brown, others, as L. sahalella, Cham., 

 are 3^ellowish, with a silky lustre ; others are white, marked more or 

 less with 3^ellowish ; others as CEnotheroisemineUa, are mainly ochreous, 

 and others as L. murtfeldtella, have the basal part of the wings white, 

 with the remainder ochreous, mottled with brown, and with scales of 

 other colors. But with all this variet}', and with considerable differ- 

 ences in the forms of the wings, and size of the antennae, there is yet a 

 remarkable agreement among them in the character of the neuration of 

 the wings. There are also great differences in the size of species. 



This small species, as to ornamentation, belongs to the same group 

 with the European L. propinquella, and our murffeldtella, except that 

 its wings are not clothed with tufts of scales, and the neuration of the 

 wings is Very similar to that of L. staintoni, as figured in Ins. Brit., 

 vol. iii., but the wings are narrower. 



Head and palpi, white; antennae, brown; legs, sordid whitish, 

 marked with brown on their anterior surfaces. Basal third of the fore- 

 wings white, stained with fuscus along the fold, and bordered behind 

 on the costal margin b}" a dark brown line, which extends half way 

 across the wing, thence to the tip the wing is yellowish ochreous, with 

 short but distinct brownish, costal streaks, opposite to the second of 

 which, but scarceh^ touching the dorsal margin, is a brown streak, con- 

 cave toward the base of the wing; there is a blackish, longitudinal line 

 in the middle of the apical part of the wing ; costal and apical cilia, 

 white; dorsal cilia, fuscus, three hinder marginal brown lines in the 

 costal and apical cilia, placed respectiveh' at their base, middle and tip. 

 Al. ex.. one fourth inch or a little more. Amherst, Goodell. 



ELACHISTA. 



9. E. ALBAPA.LPELLA, U. Sp. 



Palpi, wbite; head, antennae, and fore-wings, brownish. The palpi 

 are slender, and if recurved would reach the vertex. Before the middle 



