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is diffused outward and downward, sometimes following the whole 

 contour of the terminal margin. O. electella is a smaller species, and 

 of lighter colouring {i. e., less suffused with dark fuscous shading), 

 moreover, it has the antennae distinctly annulated instead of uniformly 

 coloured, as in apolectella. Another point of distinction is that in 

 electella there is no distinct pale lino along the cilia of the fore-wings 

 on the under-side. 



1916 (2). Gklechia ltciella, sp. n. 

 Antenna fawn-brown, with pale fuscous .annulations. Palpi pale cinereous 

 on their inner sides, fawn-brown and fuscous externally. Read and thorax fawn- 

 brown. Fore-wings fawn-brown, speckled with pale fawn-ochreous, an ill-defined 

 transverse streak of the latter indicated beyond the end of the cell ; at about one- 

 third from the base is an obscure patch of blackish scales, narrowly connected with 

 a small spot of the same on the costa nearer to the base ; beyond this, and again 

 about the end of the cell the fawn-brown scaling shows strongly in small patches, 

 unmixed with paler speckling, assuming an almost chestnut-brown tinge, one spot 

 at the upper angle of the cell being nucleated with black ; beyond the pale trans- 

 verse bar, which is angulated a little outward beyond the costa, the apical and 

 terminal area with the basal third of the cilia is rather distinctly black-speckled ; 

 cilia fawn-ochreous, without parallel shade-lines. Exp. al., <J,12; ?,10mm. 

 Hind-tvings shining, pale grey, with fawn-ochreous cilia. Abdomen pale greyish 

 fuscous. Legs pale fawn-ochreous, tarsi faintly speckled. 



Type, S (84427) ; ? (84428), Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. : S. France, Perpignan (Pyr. Or.). Larva, Lycium 

 europcBum, 22, V, excl. 14 — 17, VI, 1899. Four specimens. 



The larva feeds on the leading shoots of Lycium europcsum in the 

 latter half of May in roadside hedges near Perpignan. It spins 

 together the young leaves among which its presence is easily notice- 

 able. Mr. Stainton received and had figured (D. 88) a larva from 

 M. Milliere, from Hyeres, having the same habits, and although I 

 omitted at the time to make any note of the larva I have little doubt 

 that this is the same species. It must not be confused with OelecJiia 

 micradelpho, a closely allied species feeding at the same time on the 

 same plant, but of which the larval habits are widely different. 



191G (3). Gelechia micradelpha, sp. n. 

 Antenna whitish ochreous. Palpi whitish, with a fuscous shade externally 

 along the middle of each joint. Head and thorax whitish ochreous. Fore-wings 

 pale brownish ochreous, with scattered blackish speckling ; this appears in a very 

 faintly indicated oblique transverse band, leaving the costa at about one-fourth and 

 crossing the fold between two minute spots of raised blackish scales — the first below 

 the fold, slightly anterior to that on the cell ; another pair of minute raised spots 

 is situated one at the end of the cell, the other a little beyond it, above the outer 



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