schrkckensteinia] 



ELACHISTIDAE 



691 



America ; 5, 6, 8. Larva pale green ; dorsal line darker ; 

 head and plate of 2 green : beneath leaves of Jinhns ; 7, 9. 



25. Epermenia, 7/6. 



Antennae |, in (? evenly ciliated. Labial palpi long 

 curved, thickened with loose 

 scales, terminal joint about half 

 second, rather obtuse, l^osterior 

 tibiae rough -haired. Fore wings 

 with one or more dorsal scale- 

 teeth : lb furcate, 7 and 8 some- 

 times stalked, 7 to termen. 

 Hindwings -j, elongate-lanceolate, 

 cilia 2-4; 6 and 7 a})proximated 

 or stalked. 



Though not numerous in 

 species, this genus is nearly cosmopolitan. Im 



NeuraHon and lipad of Ejiermen'a 

 cliaeTophyllellu. 



with fore- 

 wings more or less narrowly elongate, pointed. Pupa in an 

 oj)cn network cocoun. 



1. Forewings witli four dorsal scale-teetli . . 2. 



,, ,, two dorsal scale-teeth . . 3. 



2. Dark line of cilia subfalcate at apex 2. charrophyllelhi. 



,, ,, ,, not subfalcate . . 3. daucella. 



3. Forewings pale ochrcous . . .1. illigerella. 



,, gi'ey ■ . • .4. insecurella. 



1. E. illigerella, Hb. 12-14 mm. Forewings pale ochreous ; 

 costa fuscous on anterior half ; an indistinct fuscous streak 

 from base of dorsum to beneath ^ of costa ; a rather dark 

 ochreous-fuscous fascia from middle of costa obliquely inwards, 

 dilated on costa, emitting from dilation a streak to tornus ; an in- 

 wardly oblique dark ochreous-fuscous spot on costa before apex : 

 second discal stigma dark fuscous ; two black dorsal scale-teeth ; 

 dark line of cilia subfalcate at apex. Hindwings dark grey. 



S. England to Worcester and Norfolk, local ; C. Europe ; 

 6, 7, 8, 9. Larva yellow -green ; dorsal line darker; head 

 yellowish-brown : amongst spun leaflets or umbels of Angelica 

 and Aegopodiuvi ; 5, 6, 8. The threads spun by the larva of 

 this and the following species are covered with minute drops of a 

 sticky secretion. 



2. E. chaerophyllella, Gz. 12-13 mm. Forewings brown, 

 mixed with whitish and more or less sprinkled with black, on 

 costa strigulated with black ; a black inwardly oblique fascia 

 from costa before middle, followed by a darker brown suffusion ; 



