tennie, which upon dissection proves to be a bundle of scales 

 attached to the joints : as however the females and many of 

 the other sex have simple antennae, the recurved palpi will be 

 a more constant character to distinguish our genus from 

 Crambus, to which it is nearly related. Phycis having been 

 long employed to designate a group of fishes, it cannot be re- 

 tained with propriety. 



The following are our British species, but those with * 

 being desiderata, I may be mistaken in their affinities. 



A. Superior wings whitish spotted with black. 



1. nebulea Harv., Hub. — Sand-hills near Christchurch, 



Hants, August? 



2. Cardui Ha'w. — Cribella Hiib., Goda. — May, June, m. 



August. Thistles. 



B. Superior wings not white. 



* Antennse of males dilated near the base. 



3. sanguinea Haw., Hiib. — carnella. Don. 5. 153. 5. — May, 



b. Aug. Meadows near Dover. 



4. carnea Linn., Fab., Hiib. — Found with the last flying at 



sunset. 

 *5. decuriella. Hiib. pi. 11. y^ T-i. — 10 July, amongst dry 

 cones of Fir-trees, Parley Heath, J. C. Dale, Esq. 



6. legatea Haw. — legatella Hiib. 



7. cristea Haw. — spicicella Hiib. 



8. spissicornis Fab., Haw. — spicicella Fab. — Cristella Hiib. 



— ^June, Epping Forest. 



9. fusca Haw. — New Forest, Charles Lyell, Esq. 



1 0. contubernea Hiib., Haw. — June, b. July, dry chalky fields. 



11. diluta Haw. — dilutella Hiib. — undella Fab. ? 



12. formosa. Haw. 494. 9. 



** Antennae of males not dilated near the base. 



13. consociella. Hiib.pl. 48./ 328. 



14. verrucea Haw. — verrucella Hiib. 



15. fascia. Haw. 4:96. 15. 



*16. obtusa Haw. — obtusella Hiib. 



17. palumbea Haw. — ^palumbella Fab. P Hiib. 



18. marmorea Haw. — var. abietella Fab. ? 



19. porphyrea Curt. MSS. 



20. pinguis Haw.— Curt. Brit. Ent. 233. — The female figured 



was taken 5th July upon the trunk of an Elm-tree in 

 the Green Park by Thomas Marshall, Esq. 



21. bistriga Haw. — B. June, July, skirts of Woods. 



22. angusta iafow.— angustella Hiib. 



23. elutea Haw. — elutella Hiib. 

 *24. semirufa Haw. — Near London. 



*25. rufa Haw.—0\(\. shady pales near London. 



The plant is Orchis {Habenaria) bifolia (Butterfly Orchis), 

 communicated by Sir John Tylden. 



