lln GELECHID^. 



gato disci in medio, punctoque rotuiido pone medium nigris. Exp. 

 al. 8i lin. 



Head and face pale grcyish-oclireous. Palpi fuscous, iiitcrually pale 

 greyish-oclireous ; terminal joint pale grcyish-ochreous, with a fuscous 

 ring before the apex. Antennse dark fuscous. Anterior wings pale 

 grei/ish-ocJireous, toith nearly all the veins indicated hy dark fuscous 

 streaks, those below the apex of the wing most strongly marked and 

 sometimes confluent, forming a dark fuscous blotch ; on the disc in 

 the middle is an elongate black spot, and beyond the middle is a nearly 

 round black spot ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous, tinged with fuscous. 

 Posterior wings pale grey, with pale fuscous cilia. 



But few specimens have yet occurred, aud all those in the 

 Cambridgeshire fens in July. 



18. sororculella, lliib. Tin. 440 (181G); Treit. ; Prey; Zell. ; 

 Dougl. Alis anticis f/riseo-fnscis, dorsum versus saipe dilutioribus, 

 puncto uigro elongato plic.c ante medium, linea loncjitudinali disci nigra, 

 ocello albido ante, punctoque albido post medium interrupta, fascia postica 

 angulata, vix indentata, cincrea. Exp. al. 7 lin. 



Head and face greyish-fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, interually pale 

 ochreous. Antenna? dark fuscous. Anterior wings (jreijisJi-fuscous, 

 with the inner margin usually paler, with an elongate black spot on the 

 fold before the middle, a longitudinal hlacli line on the disc interrupted 

 before the middle bg a whitish ocellus, and begond the middle by a ivhitish 

 spot ; the hinder fascia is somewhat cinereous, angulated and slightly 

 indented ; the hinder margin and apex of the costa arc spotted with 

 dark fuscous and whitish ; cilia greyish-fuscous. Posterior wings pale 

 greyish-fuscous, with paler cilia. 



Not rare among sallows in July. The larva, wliich is more 

 easily met with, feeds in the shoots of the sallow in May and 

 June. 



19. cusieatella (Zell.), Dougl. Ent. Trans, i. n. s. 243 (1853). 

 Alis anticis griseofuscis, striis longiludinalibus cuia'ifori/iibus nigris, 

 cpiatuor in medio conspicuoribus, oblique pone squamas albidas positis, 

 fascia ])allida angulata, plicam versus cxtroi'sum curvata. Exp. al. 7^ 

 lin. 



Head greyish-fuscous. Pace whitish. Palpi grcyish-fnscous, inter- 

 nally whitish ; terminal joint internally whitish, with a dark fuscous 

 ring before the apex. Antennro greyish-fuscous. Anterior wings 

 gregish-fuscous, with several longitudinal dark fuscous wedge-shaped 

 streaks; of which four in the middle of the wing placed oblicpiely be- 

 yond some whitish scales arc conspicuous ; beyond some rather con- 

 spicuous streaks near the costa beyond the middle is the pale angulated 

 fascia, which towards the fold bends outwardly ; the hinder margin 

 and apex of the costa arc spotted with black ; cilia i)ale greyish-fuscous, 

 I'osterior wings pale fuscous, with paler cilia. 



