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TAPERS BY DR. B. CLEMENS. 



toAvard the end, shorter than the third, 

 loner as the thorax beneath. 



Tongue scaled, as 



(l'h. hfX C. ? gemmiferella* Labial palpi dark greenish -brown, 

 with a silvery stripe on the front of the third joint, and another 

 behind, continued to the second joint. Face, head and 

 thorax dark greenish-brown, with a narrow, central, silvery 

 line continued to the thorax^ and one of the same hue above 

 the eyes on each side. Antennas dark greenish-brown, with 

 tAvo silvery lines on the basal joint, the stalk annulated- with 

 silvery, and a broad, silvery ring before the tip, AA'hich is 

 likewise silvery. Fore-wings dark greenish-broAvn to the 

 middle, and from the apical third to the tip, with an orange- 

 coloured patch rather beyond the middle of the Aving, extended 

 across the wing, and a little produced along the costa behind, 

 having a large, transverse, oval, smooth patch of elevated 



* The following remark has already appeared in the 9th volume of "The 

 Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer," p. 31: — "Dr. Clemens has yery liberally 

 forwarded me six specimens of his Cosmopteryx; but I find ontclose examina- 

 tion, that only four of them truly belong to Gemmiferella, thewther two being 

 manifestly a distinct, though closely allied, species, which, though possessing 

 the three short longitudinal streaks near the base in place*»f the fascia, differs 

 in the following respects: — The ground colour of the anterior wings is darker, 

 the orange fascia is paler, not so reddish, its margins/are pale golden, instead 

 of silvery-violet and its hind margin is almost straight, and thus very different 

 from that in C. gemmiferella ; finally the apical streak -is continuous, not inter- 

 rupted, and of a silvery-white throughout. I have much pleasure in naming 

 this species, after its captor, Cosmopteryx ClemensellaQ 



The exp. al. of Clemensella is 4J lines. H. T. S. 



