EPICHNOPTERYX] 



TINEIDAE 



773 



Kent to Hants and Essex, in salt-marshes, local ; Holland ; 6. 

 liavva pinkish-white ; head black ; 2-4 with dark brown plates : 

 case covered with frao-ments of grass and Conferva; on grass (?) ; 

 94. 



2. E. pulla, Esp. {radiella, Curt.) 11-14 mm. Forewings 

 and hindwings I'ather thinly clothed with dark fuscous hair- 

 scales ; 6 and usually 10 of forewings present. 



Kent to Hants and Essex, local ; C. and S. Europe, Asia 

 Minor ; 5, 6. Larva Avhitish, purplish-tinged ; head black ; 2-4 

 blackish-marked : case covered witli longitudinally placed frag- 

 ments of grass ; on grass ; 7-4. 



24. FuMEA, HI). 



Head rough. Tongue obsolete. Antennae in S |, bipectinatcd 

 to apex. liabial palpi short, porrected, densely hairy. Maxillary 

 palpi rudimentary. Posterior 

 tibiae smooth - scaled above. 

 Forewings scaled ; lb furcate, 

 7 to apex, 7 and 8 sometimes 

 short-stalked, 9 absent. Hind- 

 wings under 1, ovate, cilia \; 4 

 absent. ? apterous. 



A small European genus, of 

 which the species, from their 

 obscurity and similarity, are 

 still imperfectly xmderstood. 

 Imago with forewings elongate 

 or rather broad, costa moderately 

 arched, termen oblique. Larva 

 in a portable case covered with 

 refuse. 



1. Forewings with apex obtuse or rounded 



,, ,, distinctly pointed 



2. Forewings purplish-tinged, apex obtuse 



,, bi'onzy-tinged, apex rounded 



3. Forewings uniformly dark 



,, paler-mixed 



1. F. crassiorella, Brd. 6 14-15 mm. 



Neuration o[ Fumea intermcdiello 



. 1. crassiorella. 

 2. inter mediella. 

 3. hetulina. 

 4. sepitim. 

 Forewings rather 

 broad, apex tolerably obtuse ; dark fuscous, purplish -tinged. 

 Hindwings rather dark fuscous. $ with anal tuft grey-whitish, 

 brownish-mixed. 



Surrey, Middlesex, local ; SC. Eiu-ope ; 7. Larva light 

 purplish-brown ; subdorsal and spiracular lines on 2-4 reddish ; 



