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dark brown, except at the tips, which are broadly dark brown. 

 From the base passes a silvery streak, and there is a silvery 

 mark below the costa, and two on the inner margin. The 

 hind-wings are dark purple. The fringes of all the wings are 

 blackish. 



The larva lives under the bark of lime trees, and is yellowish- 

 white, with a light brown head. 



GENUS ANTISl'ILA. {HellOZelidcB.) 

 Antispila, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 419 (1826); 

 Stainton, Man. Brit. Butt. & Moths, ii. p. 366 (1859); 

 id. Nat. Hist. Tineina, xi. p. 298 (1870) ; Von Heinemann 

 & Wocke, Schmett. Deutschl. (2) ii. (2), p. 515 (1877). 



This genus includes a iew species with rather stout bodies, 

 short antennae, broad fore-wings, and lanceolate hind-wings, 

 with long fringes. 



The footless larv?e mine in leaves, and pupate in flat cases 

 on the surface of the ground, or hang suspended by a thread 

 to a leaf. 



ANTISPILA TREITSCHKIELLA. 



{^riate CLVIIL, Fig. 7.) 



CEcophora ireitschkiella, Duponchel, Lepid. France, Suppl. iv. 



p. 319, pi. 77, fig. I (1842). 

 Elachista ireitschkiella, Fischer von Roslerstamm, Abbild. 



Schmett. p. 297, pi. 100, fig. 4 (1843); Stainton, Ins. 



Brit. Tineina, p. 250 (1854). 

 Antispila treitschkielia, Stainton, Nat. Hist. Tineina, xi. p. 318, 



pi. 8, fig. 3 (1870) ; Von Heinemann «S: Wocke, Schmett. 



Deutschl. (2) ii. (2), p. 515 (1S77). 



This is a small bronzy-brown moth, not more than a 

 quarter of an inch in expanse, with a silvery band towards the 

 base ot the fore-wings, and two silvery spots beyond, that 



