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735. 



LAVERNA OCHRACEELLA. 



Ochreous Laverna. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tineidae. 



Tyjie of the Genus, Laverna ochraceella Curt. 



Laverna Curt. — Anacampsis Curt. 



Antennce alike in both sexes, remote, inserted on each side of 

 the crown close to the eyes, rather longer than the body and 

 capillary, clothed with short scales, basal joint long and cla- 

 vate, the remainder short (1, a portion of the base). 

 Maxilla spiral, tapering, as long as the palpi, clothed with scales 

 externally at the base (3). 



Labial palpi much longer than the head, diverging, recurved but 

 not above the head, rather long, 2nd joint densely clothed with 

 scales (4) ; triarticulate, basal joint shortish, curved, clavate, 

 2nd very long, curved, slightly clavate, 3rd scarcely so long, 

 very slender, tapering and acute (4 a), clothed with very short 

 scales. 

 Head short and broad, clothed with small depressed scales (7 the face, 

 7* the profile) : eyes small. Thorax subglobose. Abdomen not 

 depressed, shortish, narrow and tufted in the males, the apex conical 

 in the females. Wings horizontal and incumbent ? when at rest, 

 longer than the body, superior linear, lanceolate, apex acute ; cilia 

 longish : inferior lanceolate, very narrow, cilia long and extending 

 round the wing. Legs, anterior short, hinder long and stout : thighs 

 short : tibiae, anterior small, intermediate with a pair of unequal 

 spurs at the apex ; hinder long, stout and hairy outside, with long- 

 ish spurs at the apex and a pair a little below the middle: tarsi 5- 

 jointed, basal joint the longest : claws and pulvilli minute. 



Ochraceella Curt. MSS. — Guide, Gen. 1009^. 



Pale ochreous ; antennae dotted ; superior wings with deep 

 ochreous or ferruginous clouds, forming several pale patches, 

 the cilia dotted at the apex with the same colour ; inferior wings 

 silky yellowish white, cilia ochreous. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Robertson, Mr. Bentley, and the Author. 



I ESTABLISHED the jrenus Anacampsis in the 4th vol. of this 

 Work, folio 189, and finding that a portion of that extensive 

 group differs essentially from the typical form, I am induced 

 to propose a new genus for them. Amongst the most pro- 

 minent distinctions are the much broader head, shorter and 

 less elevated palpi, rather longer and more slender maxillae, 

 more lanceolate superior wings, and very narrow and lanceo- 

 late inferior wings ; this last character at once distinguishes 



