276 HAUSTET.I.ATA. LEl'IDOPTEK A. 



Sp. 4.. fuscoaenea. Alts anticisfusco-wneis, lucidis, tinctiira cvpri, posiicis atris. 



(Exp. Alar. 7 lin.) 

 Ti. fuscoaenea. Haworth.—Va.. fuscoaenea. Steph. Catal. ii. 209. No. 7362. 

 Anterior wings brassy-brown, with a coppery tint, and very glossy : posterior 



linear-subulate, deep black and shining. 



Very scarce near London : I have a fine pair that was taken at 

 Darenth wood, in June. 



Sp. 5. fusco-cuprea. AUs anticis fusco-cnpreis, immaculatis, posiicis fuscis, 



nitidis. (Exp. Alar. 5^—6 lin.) 

 Po. fusco-cuprea. Haworih. — Pa. fusco-cuprea. Steph. Catal. ii. 209. N'o. 7363. 



Anterior wings rather broad, of an immaculate coppery -brown, and very 

 glossy ; posterior brown and shining. 



Very rare ; found near London : I have taken it at Ripley, and 

 in June 1827 I found two examples there. 



Sp. 6. Merianella. AUs anticis nig7'is,fasciis tr ibus argenteis trausvers'e divari- 



catis. (Exp. Alar. 6 lin.) 

 Ph. Ti. Merianella. Linn^. — Pa. Merianella. Steph. Catal. ii. 209. No. 7364. 



— Argyresthia, H'lthner. 

 Anterior wings brown-black, with three transverse divaricating silvery fasciae, 



the first simple and near the base, the second flexuous and towards the 



middle, the terminal one widest and bifid, expanded into a triangular blotch 



on the costa : on the extreme tip of the wings is a silver spot : posterior 



wings and cilia fuscous. 



Very rare near London, but more abundant in the New Forest in 

 June. 



Genus CCCXLIX. — Cam.isto* mihi. 



Palpi longer than the head, slender, divaricating, curved upwards, sparingly 

 clothed with short metallic scales, the basal joints stoutest, the terminal one 

 longer than the preceding, and very acute : maxiUtz short. Antenna; about 

 half the length of the wings, slender and simple: Aeac? small, subglobose, 

 clothed with imbricated smooth metallic scales : eyes small : thorax ovate, 

 not crested: wings slightly convoluted during repose; anterior elongate 

 sublinear-triangular, the hinder margin a little indented towards the apex, 

 which has a roundish spot, the disc generally metallic and immaculate, 

 with sometimes a few interrupted paler metallic markings on the costa and 

 inner marghi at the apex ; cilia rather short ; posterior whigs sublanceolate, 

 with moderately long cilia: bodi/ rather long, but slender. 



* KaXXiTa, pidcherrima. 



