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Anterior wings brownish-goldj the base immaculate, in the middle is a curved 

 silvery-white mark, common to both wings, and behind this on the margin 

 are about five short streaks of similar colour : on the tip of the costa is a 

 black spot, in which is a silvery pupil : posterior wings brown-black. 



More abundant than the last : found at the end of May in several 

 places within the metropolitan district, as at Coombe, Darenth, 

 Hertford, Ripley, &c.; also in Devonshire and the New Forest. 



Sp. 4. simpliciella. Alls anticis fusco-auratis, postice lineolis marginalibus 

 argenteis. (Exp. Alar. S^ — S^ lin.) 



He. simpliciella. Steph. Catal. ii. 207. No. 7322. 



Anterior wings brown-gold, with about five short silvery spots on the apex of 

 the costa, some of them extending towards the hinder margin, on which is a 

 rounded black dot, with a silvery pupil : posterior wings fuscous, with 

 paler cilia. 



Taken in plenty at Hertford at the end of May and beginning of 

 June : also found at Coombe. 



Sp. 5. cognatella. Alls anticis fusco-aureis. postice lineolis quinque ohliquis 

 argenteis, posticis cinereofuscis. (Exp. Alar, 3 lin.) 



He. cognatella. Steph. Catal ii. 207. No. 7323. 



Anterior wings golden-brown, with five obliquely-placed faint silvery streaks 

 towards the apex of the costa: posterior wings pale ashy-brown. 



I have a specimen of this insect, which was taken at Darenth 

 wood in June. 



Genus CCCXLVI. — Microsetia* mihi. 



Palpi rather long, slender, somewhat divaricating, incurved, clothed with 

 short scales to the apex, the terminal joint more slender than the preceding, 

 and shorter, with the apex acute : maxilla very short. Antennce short, 

 simple, in some of the minute species somewhat moniliform, and in all 

 faintly pubescent within in the males : head small, with a slightly elevated 

 tuft of scales between the antennae and the forehead : et/es small : thorax 

 slender : wings convoluted during repose, anterior elongate-sublinear, gene- 

 rally of dark colours, with two more or less distinct pale or silvery transverse 

 marks, of which the basal one is generally continuous, and the apical mostly 

 composed of two distinct spots; cilia short: posterior wings slender, with 

 rather long cilia : body rather short and slender, a little stouter in the 

 females. 



" MtKpoQ parvus, (T);c tinea. 



