364 PYRALIDINA [anekastia 



Ammophila, Aira, Festuca, etc. ; 5, 6. On the Continent this 

 larva has sometimes been exceedingly destructive to rye. 



2. Gymnancyla, Z. 



Face smooth. Antennae in (J shortly ciliated, with sinuation 

 above base. Labial palpi rather long, porrected, with dense 

 appressed scales, terminal joint short, hardly pointed. Maxillary 

 palpi in <$ terminating in a long pencil of hairs, in 5 moderate, 

 tolerably filiform. Forewings : 4 and 5 rather approximated. 

 Hindwings : cell not reaching middle, 3 and 4 stalked, 5 absent, 



7 closely approximated to 8 to near middle. 



Contains only the one species. Imago with forewings narrow, 

 costa hardly arched. 



1. G. canella, lib. 21-23 mm. Forewings greyish-ochreous, 

 terminally whitish-sprinkled ; a pale suifused costal streak ; 

 first line hardly pale, edged posteriorly by three dark fuscous 

 dots on veins ; two dark fuscous transversely placed discal dots ; 

 second line pale, edged anteriorly with some dark fuscous 

 scales, posteriorly with pale rosy-ochreous. Hindwings light 

 grey. 



Kent to Dorset and Suffolk, E. Ireland, on coasts, local ; 

 C. Europe; 6, 7. Larva blue-green to reddish-grey; dorsal 

 line dai'k green or rosy ; subdorsal and supraspiracular pale ; 

 3 and 12 with pale pinkish-ochreous black-ringed lateral spots; 

 head pale brownish-ochreous, blackish-marked : mining in stem 

 until nearly full-grown, finally in a slight web on Salsola hdi ; 

 8, 9. 



3. Pempelia, Hh. 



Face with rounded-conical projection of scales. Antennae in 

 S shortly ciliated, with sinuation above base, filled with dense 

 projecting scales. Labial palpi moderately long, ascending, 

 with tolerably appressed scales, terminal joint short, hardly 

 pointed. Maxillary palpi in S terminating in a long pencil of 

 hairs, in $ moderate, tolerably filiform. Forewings : 4 and 5 

 approximated. Hindwings : cell not reaching middle, 3 and 4 

 stalked, 5 absent, 7 closely approximated or anastomosing with 



8 to near middle. 



A rather generally distributed genus of limited extent. Imago 

 with forewings narrow, costa scarcely arched. 



Forewings more or less mixed with crimson . 1. diluk/la. 



,, not mixed with crimson . . 2. ornatella. 



1. P. dilutella, lib. (adornatella, Tr. ; subornatella, Dup.) 



