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Sp. 5. tripunctelhi. Alls anticis perfuscis maculis trihus ulbix aut Jlavis in 

 triangulum . (Exp. Alar. 6 — G\ lin.) 



Hec. tripuncta. Haworth. — In. tripunctella. Steph. Caial. ii. 226. No. 7554. 



Anterior wings deep fuscous, with three white ochreous or yellowish spots, 

 placed triangularly, two being on the costa, the first near the middle, the 

 second behind; the third is almost on the inner margin, near the hinder 

 angle; cilia yellowish, with fuscous clouds, the latter colour sometimes 

 predominating. 



In some instances there are one or two yellowish spots on the hinder margin. 



Taken, but rarely, within the metropolitan district, towards the 

 end of May and the beginning of June. " Pales and gardens, 

 Chelsea."" — Mr. Iiigpen. 



Genus CCCLXXIX. — Amaurosetia* mVii. 



Palpi four ; maxillary very minute and slender ; labial rather Jong, slender, 

 diverging, straight and depending, clothed with short scales, the terminal 

 joint most slender, subacute ; maxillce very short. Aniennw shortish, 

 slender, during repose incurved beneath the wings ; simple in both sexes : 

 head small ; front convex, and furnished with decumbent glossy scales : 

 eyes small : thorax not crested : ivings incumbent during repose ; anterior 

 elongate-sublinear, rounded at the hinder margin, colours very simple and 

 plain, usually with some faint pale (yellowish) markings; cilia short: 

 posterior wings subtriangular, also with short cilia: body moderate, rather 

 slender, with a small tuft at the apex in the males ; obtuse in the females : 

 legs moderate. 



I divided the species contained in this genus from their allies from, 

 the general poverty of their colouring, combined with their slender, 

 short, depending palpi, their smooth head, incumbent anterior wings, 

 of which the cilia are short, small posterior ones, also with short cilia, 

 not extending along the costal edge : the species are found in woods 

 and gardens rather early in the summer. 



Sp. 1. oppositella. Alis anticis fuscis, maculis duahus oppositis Jlavis, posticis 



fuscescentibiis. (Exp. Alar. 5 — 6.^ lin.) 

 Ti. oppositella. Fabricius.—N. G. oppositella. Sieph. Calal. ii. 226. No. 7555. 



Anterior wings fuscous, with a metallic tinge, and with two yellow spots of 

 equal size towards the apex, one on the costa, the other nearly opposite on 



* Aftavpoc obscuruSj aijc tinea. 



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