580 TINEINA [aphanaui.a 



Forewings with broad white fascia . . 2. leucatella. 



,, without such fascia . . 1. nanella. 



1. A. nanella, Hh. 11-12 mm. Forewings dark grey, 

 whitish-sprinkled, especially beyond dark markings ;. an oblique 

 narrow fascia rather near base, a spot on costa before and 

 another beyond middle, stigmata, a spot below second discal 

 and sepai-ated from it by a white inark, a spot on tornus, 

 another in disc beyond it, and one at apex black, variable in 

 development ; an indistinct fine whitish sharply angulated 

 ti'ansverse posterior line. Hind wings grey. 



Kent to Gloucester and Essex, local ; C. Europe ; 7. Larva 

 brown-reddish ; head and plate of 2 black : variously said to 

 feed on flowers and in shoots of pear, or on lichens growing on 

 the trunks ; 5. 



2. A. leucatella, L. 12-13 mm. Head ochreous- white. 

 Forewings dark fuscous ; a broad white or ochreous-white fascia 

 at J ; stigmata and a dot below second discal indistinctly 

 blackish, somewhat raised ; a white spot on tornus, and another 

 on costa opposite ; some white terminal scales. Hindwiugs 

 grey. 



England to York, not uncommon ; Europe, Asia Minor ; 7, 

 Larva light brown to whitish-green, more or less rosy-tinged ; 

 head and plate of 2 black : between joined leaves of hawthorn 

 and apple ; 5, 6. 



8. Epithectis, n.g. 



Second joint of labial palpi thickened with rough scales 

 beneath, terminal nearly as long as second, somewhat roughened 

 anteriorly. Forewings : 7 and 8 out of 6. Hindwiugs 1, 

 trapezoidal, apex pointed, termen somewhat sinuate, cilia 1 ; 3 

 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 and 7 stalked. 



A small northern temperate genus, correlated with the pre- 

 ceding. Imago with fox'ewings elongate, pointed. 



Forewings yellow . . . .1. hithi/ri. 



„ light brownish . . .2. moiiffttella. 



1. E. lathyri, Stt. [nigricostella, Dgl., non Dup.) 9-12 mm. 

 Forewings pale oclu'eous-yellowish, suffused with deeper yellow 

 in disc ; a thick dark grey costal streak from base to |, includ- 

 ing a yellow sti'cak near base ; an irregular sDuietimes inter- 

 rupted dorsal streak and an apical patch dark grey ; a black 

 discal dot near base ; first discal stigma and a small round spot 

 above tornus black. Hindwiugs light grey. 



Norfolk, Cambi'idge, Cheshire, Perth, local ; not rccoi'ded 



