104 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Coleophora Genista, n. sp. 



Alls anticis brunneo-ochreis, postice saturatioribus, casta 

 postice dilatata, linea tenuissima plica, dorsoque 

 anguste niveis; antennis albis nigro-annulatis, articulo 

 basali incrassato, vix penicillato, grisescente. 

 Exp. al. 51— 6J lin. 



Head whitish-ochreous, darkest in the middle. Face and 

 palpi whitish. Antennae white, annulated with black, the 

 basal joint greyish-ochreous, slightly thickened, with a few 

 projecting scales beneath (rather more than in Discordella). 

 Anterior wings brownish-ochreous, darker towards the hind 

 margin, the space between the fold and inner margin paler ; 

 the costa white, narrowly at first but more broadly beyond 

 the middle and continued almost to the extreme apex (thus 

 extending much further than in Discordella) ; in the fold is 

 a slender white streak (just similar to that in Discordella) ; 

 and the inner margin is narrowly white (the white scales 

 going further towards the apex than in Discordella) 3 cilia 

 brownish at the apex, shading into greyish-ochreous ; hind 

 wings pale grey, with pale grey cilia. 



Distinguished from Discordella, which it very closely re- 

 sembles, by the longer costal streak being broader beyond 

 the middle, the white scales along the inner margin reaching 

 further towards the apex, and the apical portion of the wing 

 thus contracted in width being darker in colour. 



The larva of this species was discovered early in May, 

 near Newcastle, by Mr. Wailes. It feeds on the Genista 

 anglica, in the leaves of which it makes white blotches ; the 

 case is formed of little bits of leaves added alternately in 

 front and behind, and is pale greyish-ochreous. Mr. Miller 

 subsequently met with the larva at VVanstead, and Mr. Boyd 

 found it at Lyndhurst in the New Forest. It appears to 



