AHCYRFSTTTTA. 1 S3 



spots on tlic costa ; cilia greyisli-oclu'cous. Posterior wings grey, witli 

 paler cilia. 



In the variety ossea the anterior wings arc creani-eolour, the inner 

 margin remaining white, and the dark basal streak and dark spot on 

 the inner margin becoming rather obsolete. 



Tory abmulaut aniong hawthorn in Juno and July. 'I'jie larva 

 feeds ill the leaf-buds of the hawthorn in May. 



3. purpurascentella , Pta. Zool. IStU. App. v. Alis anticis 

 jjurpuriucode-grheh, costam versus dilutioribus, dorso albo, macula 



obliqua fusca in apicem obsolctius producta, poiu^ medium interrupto, 

 punctis duobns costjp apicem versus albis. Exp. al. 5 lin. 



Head white, with a few grey hairs. Face and palpi white. Antenna' 

 white, annulated with dark hiscous. Anterior wings (jrcijhlt-purplo, 

 paler on the costa, with the inner margin while, interrupted beyond 

 the midtUe by an oblicjucly placed fuscous spot, which, tiiough very in- 

 distiuetly, appears to be continued towards the apex of the wing ; on 

 the costa before the apex are two or three small white spots; cilia 

 greyish-purple. Posterior wings grey, with paler cilia. 



I have only two specimens taken near Shelilehl and in the 

 south of Scotland, in July. I do not feel quite coniident that it 

 is distinct from nilhlella. 



4. semitestacella. Curt. Ent. Mag. i. 191 (1S33); Id. B. E. fo. 

 719 ; Step. ; Sta. — parcnlhesella, 'A. g. S. ? Alis anticis ocJireis, dorso 

 usque medium nivco, macula saturate oehrca terininato. Exp. al. ()- 

 6 1 hn. 



Head white, with a few yellowish hairs. Eace white. Palpi yellow- 

 ish. Antennae! white, annulated with dark fuscous. Anterior wings 

 ockreo/is, with the inner margin white to the middle, where there is a 

 dark oehreous spot, beyond which are only a kw whitish scales on the 

 inner margin ; cilia greyish-oehreous. Posterior wuigs grey, with paler 

 ciha. 



Common among jjeeches in August and September. 



.5. spiniella, Zell. Isis, 1839, p. 204; Sta. Alis anticis l//teo- 

 Inou/eis, dorso albo, macula saturate I'usca (sa^pc 7(1 fascia obliqua obso- 

 lete producta) pone medium interru])to, costa albo fuscoquc punctata, 

 strigulis duabus ante apicem albidis. Exp. al. C-G,^ lin. 



Head whitish. I'ace and pal])i pale yellowish. Antenna; white, 

 annulated with dark fuscous. Anterior wings yellotcish-brown, with the 

 inner margin white, interrupted by a dark fuscous s])ot beyond the 

 middle, which can sometimes be traced indistinctlij across the ici>tg as an 

 oblique fascia ; the costa is delicately spotted alternately white and 

 fuscous, with two larger whitish spots before the apex ; cilia greyish- 

 brown, at the anal angle grey. Posterior wings grey, with paler cilia. 



Occurs in the north of England and Scotland, among mountain- 

 ash, in August and September. 



