244 HAUSTELLATA.— LEPIDOPTERA. 



hedges, and rendering them perfectly leafless in the midst of summer, 

 disfiguring them with their noisome webs. 



Far too abundant for the beauty of the foliage in the vicinity of 

 the metropolis : common also in other parts of the country. 



Sp. 6. plumbella. Alts anticis plumbeis macula media apiceque fuscis, punctisque 



numerosis nigris, posticisjuscis. (Exp. Alar. 8 — 9 lin.) 

 Ti. plumbella. Fabricius.—Y^. plumbella. Steph. Catal. ii. 203. No. 7274. 



Anterior wings pale lead-colour or whitishj with a fuscous spot in the middle 

 towards the inner edge, and a rounded spot of the same at the apex; the 

 disc with numerous minute black dots, disposed somewhat regularly in 

 longitudinal lines ; cilia fuscous on the anterior angle, pale on the hinder 

 one : posterior wings and body fuscous ; cilia the same. 

 Rather scarce: it occurs in July in the neighbourhood of London, 



at Darenth wood, Hertford, Coombe wood, Ripley, &c., and I found 



a single example last season at the Hermitage. 



Genus CCCXLI. — Telea* mihi. 



Palpi moderate, slender, slightly ascending and divaricating, subfiliform, the 

 two basal joints rather stoutest, the apical one elongate and a little atte- 

 nuated at the apex : maxillcs long and spiral. Antennae short, slender, 

 similar in both sexes, but rather pubescent within in the males: head 

 moderate, with a subquadrate raised patch of imbricated scales between the 

 eyes, the latter prominent : tho?-ax stoutish, rather elevated behind : wings 

 convoluted during repose ; anterior elongate, sublinear, generally pale, with 

 a more or less distinct dark patch on the anterior apex of the hinder 

 margin, occasionally with a central fascia ; cilia moderate : posterior sub- 

 lanceolate, dark, with ample cilia : body short, stout, more so in the females, 

 with a minute tuft at the apex. 



As neither of the insects belonging to this genus are included by 

 Latrcille in his genus Yponomeuta, and as the type of the genus 

 Erminea of Haworth is Yp. Evonymella, it is obviously improper to 

 apply either of the above names here ; and as this genus is com- 

 pounded of several of Hubner's genera, it appears preferable to pro- 

 pose a new appellation than employ either of his names, although 

 Pa. Cratsegella is the type of his Scythropia. From Yponomeuta these 

 insects differ in not having the anterior wings marked with simple 

 remote black dots, but in having them either transversely fasciated 



" Telea, nomen proprium. 



