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GJELECHIA SUPPELIELLA, sp. n., DISTINaUISHED FROM 

 PELIELLA, Te. 



BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. 



Referring to Mr. Currant's note on GelecJiia peliella {ante, p. 248) 

 a careful comparison of bred British and European specimens has 

 enabled me to find a character by which they can be easily and with 

 certainty distinguished from one another ; I therefore feel justified 

 in giving a name to the English species, which has not hitherto been 

 precisely described. It is possible, although improbable, that Douglas 

 wrote his description from Stainton's single British specimen, but 

 Meyrick probably had English specimens before him when his short 

 description [HB. Br. Lp., 602) was drawn up. 



GeLECHIA SUPPELIELLA, S]). n. 



AntenncB greyish-brown, faintly annulated witli whitish, a whitish spot at the end of 

 the basal joint above. 



Palpi, second joint cinereous, externally blotched with whitish on its basal half; 

 apical joint dull cinereous, streaked above and tipped with whitish. 



Sead greyish-brown, with a whitish streak along each side from the base of the 

 antennae. 



Thorax greyish-brown. 



Fore-wings greyish-brown with dark brownish-fuscous spots, yellowish-white costal 

 and dorsal spots at three-fourths the wing-length, and some whitish sprinkling 

 around the dark spots and about the apex ; near the base is an obscure 

 series of three small dark brown spots, the first costal and close to the base, 

 the second on the fold at about one-fifth from the base, the third dorsal a 

 little nearer to the base than the second ; beyond the plical spot is a larger 

 dark brown spot on the fold, preceded and followed by some whitish scales, a 

 second spot lies straight above it on the disc, a darkish length-streak almost 

 connecting this with a third spot, both followed, and sometimes preceded, by 

 whitish scales ; above and beyond the outer spot is a somewhat triangular 

 yellowish-white costal spot, a rather curved white dorsal spot lying scarcely 

 beyond it and sometimes closely approaching it across the wing; near the apex 

 is some whitish sprinkling, and the base of the grey mottled cilia are also some- 

 times delicately sprinkled with whitish. The pale costal spot is visible on the 

 under-side. Exp. alar., 13-15 mm. 



Hind-wings slightly sliining, greyish ; cilia brownish-grey. 



Abdomen brownish-grey. 



Mind-legs shaded with brownish-fuscous externally, tarsal joints banded with whitish- 

 ochreous, tibise and tarsi on their inner sides whitish-ochreous, the tibiae with 

 whitish-ochreous hairs above. 



Type : (^, ? . Mus. Wlsm. (eight specimens). 

 Sab. : England. Manchester (Stn.) ; Preston (Threlfall, Mus. 



Wlsm.) ; West Wickham (Dgl., Stn.), (? he.) Warren. 



