MICROSETIA. 



LITHOCOLLETIS SPINOLELLA. 

 {Plate CLVI/L, Fig. 6.) 



Phalana hlancardella, Donovan, Brit. Ins. xi. p. 90, pi. 392, 



fig. 2 (1806) nee Fahricius. 

 Argyromiges sylvella, Duncan in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Brit. 



Moths, p. 262, pi. 30, fig. I (1835) ''^^ Curtis. 

 Elacliisfa spiiiolcUa, Duponchel, Lepid. France, xi. p. 535, 



pi. 308, fig. 8 (1838) ; Herrich-Schiiffer, Schmett. 



Eur. V. p. 332, fig. 797 (1854). 

 Elachista Iiihur/Ia, Zetterstedt, Ins. Lapp. p. 1010 (1840). 

 LithocoIIetis spinoldia, Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 273 



(1854); id. Nat. Hist. Tineina, ii. p. 136, pi. 3, fig. 2 (1857). 

 LiihocoUeiis spinkokUa, Von Heinemann & Wocke, Schmett. 



Deutschl. (2), ii. (2), p. 671 (1877). 



This Moth is found throughout Central Europe. It expands 

 from three lines and a half to four lines and a half. 



The fore-wings are saffron-yellow, more or less suffused with 

 grey, with a straight basal streak, a slightly curved transverse 

 band, three hooks on the costa, and two on the hind margins, 

 silvery-v/hite. The hind-wings are grey. 



The larva mines the under-surface of the leaves of Salix 

 caprea and S. silesiaca, &:c. 



GENUS MICROSETIA. {NeptlcitUdcE?) 

 Miavseiia, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 263 (1834). 

 Nepticula., Zeller, Linn. Ent. iii. p. 301 (1848); Stainton, Ins. 

 Brit. Tineina, p. 295 (1854); id. Nat. Hist. Tineina, 

 i. p. 2 (1855) ; Yon Heinemann & Wocke^ Schmett. 

 Deutschl. (2) ii. (2), p. 727 (1877). 



The head is hairy, the antenna; rather thick, and not more 

 than two-thirds as long as the fore-wings ; the labial |)alpi are 



