330 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Ti. fuscelinella. Schrank.—Cr. fuscelinellus. Sieph. Catal. ii. 220. No. 7491. 

 PediasiAj Hubner. 



Anterior wings narrow, brownish, or slightly lutescent, with a short longi- 

 tudinal white streak, not branched behind, but edged on its costal margin 

 with black : posterior wings ashy-brown. 



Found in meadows and pastures, in June and July, within the 

 metropolitan district. 



Sp. 38. nigristriellus. Alls anticis perangusiis pallidis, fusco-irroratis strigd 

 longitudinali interruyta nigra, posticis cinereis. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. 1 lin.) 



Cr. nigristriellus. Steph. Catal. ii. 221. No. 7494.— Agriphila, Hubner f 

 Anterior wings very narrow, pale ochreous, irrorated, especially towards the 

 inner margin, with fuscous, with a somewhat interrupted black longitudinal 

 streak, a little branched at the apex, towards the hinder angle : posterior 

 wings ashy. 



Taken in July 1827 in meadows near Ripley. 



Genus CCCLXIX. — Chilo, Ziiick-Somer. 



Palpi four ; maxillary small; labial very long, about one-fourth the length of 

 the body, porrected forwards in form of a beak, compressed, uniformly 

 clothed with long scales, and gradually carinated to the apex, the terminal 

 joint short and slightly deflexed : maxiUce rudimentary. Aiitennoe short and 

 slender, simple in the females, faintly pubescent, or somewhat pectinated in 

 the males : head small, with a projection of scales in front : eyes large, sub- 

 globose : thorax not crested : luivgs deflexed, and slightly convoluted during 

 repose ; anterior broadish, with the apex very obliquely truncate, sometimes 

 faintly excised, so as to become subfalcate ; the disc generally tinted with 

 straw-colour or ochreous, and rarely with any other marks than a brownish 

 longitudinal streak, and a central spot or marginal row of dots: posterior 

 wings ample, faintly waved towards the apex: c//m short: body elongate, 

 slender in the males, with minute lateral tufts, and a short one at the apex; 

 rather short in the females, sometimes with a woolly apex ; at others acute, 

 and with the terminal segment very long : legs, especially the posterior, 

 long. 



The insects of this genus — which corresponds with Topeutis of 

 Hubner — are amongst the largest of the Tineidae, and may be 

 instantly recognised by the great length of their compressed palpi, 

 which are porrected forward horizontally, and are at least one-fourth 

 the length of the body ; the maxilhe are merely rudimentary ; and 

 the anterior wings are long, with the hinder margin more or less acute 

 or subfalcate ; the disc is very pale (generally of an ochreous or 



