672 TINEINA [elachista 



27. E. paludum, Fr. 8-9 mm. Head in $ grey, in $ whitish. 

 Forewings rather dark fuscous or ochreous-grey, pale-sprinkled, 

 lighter in $ ; plical stigma elongate, black, preceded and 

 followed by whitish marks ; a small tornal spot, and lai-ger 

 triangular anteriorly dark-edged opposite costal spot white. 

 Hindwings dark grey. 



Dorset, Berks, Suffolk, Norfolk, Durham, local ; Holland, 

 Germany ; 5, 6. Larva grey ; head brown ; 2 pale yellowish, 

 with two brown spots : in leaves of Carex paludosa and C. 

 paniculata ; 4, 5. 



28. E. biatomella, -iS'^^. 7-8 mm. Head pale grey, face whitish. 

 Forewings ochreous - whitish, irrorated with grey ; plical and 

 second discal stigmata elongate, black, plical preceded and 

 followed by whitish marks ; in darker specimens an oblique 

 triangular white spot is visible on costa at |, in paler specimens 

 it is obsolete. Hindwings grey. 



England, leather common ; Holland, Switzerland ; 5, 6, 8. 

 Larva yellowish ; head brown ; 2 with two pale brown spots : 

 in leaves of Carex f/lauca ; 4, 7. 



29. E. eleochariella, Stt. 7-8 mm. Head grey. Forewings 

 grey ; plical stigma black, preceded and followed by whitish 

 marks ; a small tornal spot, and an oblique wedge-shaped mark 

 on costa opposite whitish. Hindwings dark grey. 



Cambridge, York to the Clyde, local ; Germany (?) ; 6, 7. 

 Larva in leaves of Eriophormn and Carex ; 5. 



30. E. rhynchosporella, Stt. 9-10 mm. Head white. Fore- 

 wings white, costa and sometimes doi-sum suffused with fuscous; 

 plical stigma large, elongate, black ; an angulated fuscous fascia 

 beyond middle, angle acutely produced towai'ds apex ; small 

 fuscous costal and dorsal spots near apex. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey. 



England, local ; C. Europe ; 6, 7. Larva greenish-grey, more 

 yellowish anteriorly; head dark brown: in leaves of Eriophorwn 

 and Carex; 5. 



3L E. scirpi, /S'^^. 9-12 mm. Head grey-whitish. Forewings 

 as in E. rhynchosporella, but fuscous markings more undefined, 

 apex of fascia not distinctly prodviccd, a distinct minute black 

 apical dot. Hindwings rather dark grey. 



S. England to Noi'folk and Pembroke, in salt-marshes, local ; 

 not recognised elsewhere; 6, 7. Larva pale greenish -yellow ; 

 dorsal line indistinct ; head pale yellow : in short broad galleries 

 in leaves of Scirpus maritimus and J uncus compressus ; 4, 5. 



32. E. cerusella, Hh. 9-10 mm. Head whitish. Forewings 



