NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1856. Ill 



terior wings dark olive to beyond the middle ; considerably 

 beyond the middle is a nearly straight pale-yellowish fascia, 

 broadest on the inner margin, and often not reaching to the 

 costa; the apical portion of the wing is violet, the apical 

 cilia pale yellowish ; posterior wings grey, with paler cilia. 



By the dull yellow non-metallic fascia, on the olive- 

 coloured wings, this may be immediately distinguished from 

 every other known species. 



In June, 1852, I took several specimens of this on the 

 Dartford Heath fence. This season Mr. Boyd has suc- 

 ceeded in rearing the species from one of the birch-mining 

 larva — I believe from that larva which makes a long, not 

 much contorted gallery, in which the black excrement 

 forms merely a central line. Such a larva I have found at 

 Lewisham, and not uncommonly at Mickleham, but never 

 reared it. 



Nepticula Regiella, Frey. 

 Alis anticis dilute aareo-brunneis, postice saturate pur- 

 pureis cupreo-mixtis f fascia pone medium lata, ori- 

 chalcea, obsoleta ; capillis rufis. 



Exp. 21 lin. 



Head and face reddish-yellow ; palpi whitish ; antennse 

 fuscous, basal joint whitish. Anterior wings pale golden- 

 brown, tinged with purple, a broad dull golden or brassy 

 fascia, beyond the middle not sharply defined ; immediately 

 beyond the fascia are some coppery scales in the deep purple 

 apical portion of the wing ; cilia greyish, whitish at the tips. 

 Posterior wings grey, with paler cilia. 



Distinguished from all its allies by the indistinctly mar- 

 gined brassy fascia on the pale golden brown anterior 

 w T ings. 



I have a specimen taken on the Dartford Heath fence 



