200 GRACILAKIID.^. 



plmnheUa, Diip. ? Alls nnticis saturate ceneo-griseis, maciilis qiiatnor 

 a/treis, prima clorsl basall, secunda ante medium j)rope costani, tertia 

 dorsi ante angulum analem, qiiarta costac; ante apiccm. Exp. al. 4-4 .^ 

 lin. 



Head and face shining bronzy-grey. Pali^i brown-grey, the extreme 

 tip white. Antcnnaj dark fuscous, with the tip white. Anterior wings 

 (lark tjronzij-ijn'jj, with four unmargined gotdeii. yellow spots, one at the 

 base on the biver luaryhi, a second near the costa before the middle, a 

 third on the inner margin before the anal angle, and a foiu'th on the 

 costa before the apex ; cilia greyish-fuscous. Posterior wings fuscous, 

 with grey cilia. 



Common in ]\Iay, and again in July and August; among Iljjpe- 

 ricnm. The larva feeds on several species of II//j)ericum {])n\\c\- 

 l)a\\y pcrforalmn), in June^ and in September and October ; when 

 very young it mines the leaves^ giving them a slight pucker ; it 

 afterwards rolls the leaves up into cones, of which it eats the inner 

 substance, whereby the cones, which are at first green, become 

 whitish or brownish ; when full-fed, it I'olls up a short leaf longi- 

 tudinally, and therein spins its cocoon, and assumes the pu]ia 

 state. 



14. qtiadruplella, Zell. Isis, 183'J. p. 209 ; Sta. Ent. Trans, i. n. s. 

 pi. 15. f. 5. — aurognttella. Step. Alis anticis nitidlft tntescenle-fnscis, 

 maculis quatuor sidjjUurcis, fiiaco-marglnatis, prima dorsi prope basini 

 triangulari, secunda costce ante medium obliqua, tcnui, plicam fere tan- 

 gente, tertia dorsi pone medium triangulari, quarta cost;c ante apicem 

 brevi. Exp. al. \\ lin. 



Head yeUowish-brown. Face paler. Palpi yellowish-brown ; tlie 

 base and apex of the terminal joint whitish. Antennae fuscous, with 

 paler anuulations. Anterior wings rather shining yellowish-brown, 

 with four sulphur-coloured dark viargbied spots; the hrst on the inner 

 margin near the base, rather triangular, the second on the costa before 

 the middle, obliquely placed and slender, reaching nearly to the ibid, 

 the third triangular on the inner margin beyond the middle, and the 

 fourth rather short on the costa before the apex ; cilia of the apex i'us- 

 cous, of the inner margin grey. Posterior wings grey, with paler cilia. 



A single specimen is in the collection of the British JMusenm, 

 being that formerly in the collection of the late ^Ir. Stephens, 

 who took it at Ivipley, in June, 1827. (Twenty-seven years ago, 

 and still uni(jue \)^' 



1.5. Ononidis, Zell. Isis, 1839. p. 209 ; Sta. Ent. Trans, i. n. s. 

 1)1. 15. I'. 7. — Oiionlellci, Dup. — MoiiiUella, Tengstr. — argvulipunctella, 



* Since vvritinji; the above, luiving liail an opportunily of coiiiijaiiii!;' fliis speeiuien 

 vvitli some brii;hfly-inark('(l sjiccimeiis of phaslaulpoDH'lln, \ am (jf opinion that 

 quadrup/('/t((. is not a distinet species, Imt merely' a stnmsi'ly-marked variely of p/ia- 

 sianipemidla. 



