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APLOTA ROBERTSONELLA. 



The Wanstead Grev. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tineidifi. 



Type of the Genus, Tinea bicostella Linri. 



Aplota Step., Curt. — Palpula and Rhinosia Och. — ^Macrochila Step. 

 — Ypsolophus Haw. — Alucita Fab. — Tinea Linn., Fab., Hub. 

 AntentKB concealed in repose, inserted close to the eyes and a 

 little before them, as long as the body, very slender, setaceous, 

 clothed with scales above, pubescent beneath (1). 

 Maxilla slender, spiral, nearly as long as the antennte, scaly 

 outside at the base (3). 



Labial Palpi very long, porrected, divaricating (7, 4), com- 

 pressed, densely clothed with scales, triarticulate, basal joint 

 small, 2nd very long, cylindrical, the scales projecting far be- 

 yond the apex and forming a brush, 3rd joint long, very slender 

 acute and naked, more or less elevated and looking like a spine 

 amongst the long scales at the apex of the 2nd joint (4). 

 Head small, the scales meeting on the crown, and projecting in front 

 over the forehead (7 and 7*). Thorax subglobose. Abdomen slender, 

 tufted at the apex. Wings very ample, much longer than the body, 

 convoluted or decumbent, superior lanceolate ; inferior ovate, with 

 long cilia. Legs, anterior the shortest, ivith a long spine on the in- 

 side near the apex, the others terminated by a pair of long spurs, the 

 hinder stout and clothed icith long scales outside, with a pair of spurs 

 a little below the middle, longer than those at the apex : tarsi long 

 and 5 -jointed: claws and pulvilli minute (8 f)- 

 Larvae unknoxvn. 



RoBERTsoNELLA Curt . Guidc, Gen. 1005. 1''. 



Maxillae rather short : palpi with the scales projecting very far 

 beyond the apex ; 3rd joint nearly as long as the 2nd, recurved : 

 delicate light grey with a slight ochreous tinge ; antennae dotted 

 with black ; superior wings freckled with pale brown, the costa 

 slightly concave, with oblique brown spots, the apex and pos- 

 terior margin with three fine brown lines ; a few black dots along 

 the disc ; apex of abdomen ochreous : Obs. some specimens are 

 much darker. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Robertson, the Author, S;c. 



The numerous shades of difference in the length and relative 

 proportions of the palpi in this group have led to the formation 

 of several sections, which if regarded as such are undoubtedly 

 valuable, as nothing tends more essentially to the accurate in- 

 vestigation of groups ; but it is only adding a dead weight to 

 science to give them names, if they be not entitled to such a 



