1879,] 177 



" Head, face, and palpi fuscous. Antennas fuscous. Anterior wings fuscous, 

 " with three indistinct whitish spots, one on the inner margin before the middle, 

 " one at the anal angle, and one rather beyond it on the costa ; cilia pale fuscous. 

 " Posterior wings grey, with paler cilia. 



" Taken by Mr. Edleston, on moors near Manchester, in August." 



The fuscous colour, tile fact of the first fascia being so abbreviated 

 to be spoken of as a spot, and the position of the two spots (so far as 

 it is given, for nothing is said of the direction in which they point), 

 all rather seem to indicate here the species which has been bred by 

 Mr. Sang from Carex, but to me the description made from cavight 

 and worn specimens is too unsatisfactory to make it desirable to retain 

 the name of aJpineUa, and, fortunately, in Wocke's continuation of 

 von Heinemann's work on " Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands und der 

 Schweiz," at p. 495, we have an Elachisfa monticola, Wocke, described, 

 which to me seems quite applicable to Mr. Sang's insect, except that 

 the ground colour is given as black. I translate the description, as 

 follows : 



" Monticola, Wocke. Anterior wings broader posteriorly, black (with the basal 

 'portion paler in the 9);''^ith slightly curved or angulated white fascia (much 

 ' bi'oader in the ? ), and two opposite hinder spots obliquely placed, cilia grey, with 

 ' a line of black scales before the middle ; head of the $ black-grey, of the $ whitish. 

 'Length of wing, 2 — 2i lines (45 times as long as broad). 



" Near to Kilmunella,* the anterior wings narrower at the base, with the hind 

 margin more oblique, darker, less glossy, the fascia in the $ likewise narrow, ob- 

 tusely angulated in the middle, above the fold more or less obsolete, in the ^ broad, 

 ' but with the edges ill-defined, not so much angulated as very faintly curved. In 

 ' the $ the colour of the basal portion of the wing varies considerably, sometimes 

 ' owing to scattered whitish scales it is only a little paler than the rest of the wing, 

 ' or it is only whitish or brownish-white along the inner margin, and sometimes, as 

 ' in Kilmunella, it is entirely whitish, only with a greyish tinge along the costa and 

 ' in the fold, and then, as in that species, the pale portion runs into the fascia. The 

 ' opposite spots are more or less triangular, smaller and narrower in the $ , broader 

 ' in the ? , the dorsal spot points to two-thirds of the costa. Cilia paler grey, 

 ' scarcely paler towards the apex, thickly scaled with black at the base, the dividing 

 ' line thick, likewise far from the ends of the cilia. 



" Posterior wings half the breadth of the anterior wings, dark grey, the cilia 

 ' more than three times the length of those of the anterior wings. 



" The head of the <J almost black, with the face scarcely paler, in the $ dirty 

 ' white, only on the neck rather grey. The palpi internally of the colour of the face, 

 ' externally grey, darker in the ^ , the abdomen and the legs as in Kilmvnella. 



" On the Upper Harz, from the middle of July, the larva in June in the stems 

 " of Carex fulva, mining into the root." 



* It must be borne in mind as being very doubtful which species I actually sent to v. Heine- 

 mann as Kilmunella. 



