SYNOPSIS OF THE BRITISH PLANIPENNES. 29 



lowisli ; fore wings ashy-grey, the veins dotted with 

 brown, the intermediate spaces with brown clouds ; 

 hind wings with faint brown fascia and the tip edged 

 with brown. 

 Habitat England, June. 



b. Outer margin of the wings scolloped. 



Genus Drepanopteryx, Leach. 



29. D. PHAL2EN0IDES, L. ; St. 100, 1. 



Exp. 15 lin. 



Clay-coloured ; back brownish ; about 12 sectors ; fore 



wings with two brown fasciae traversed by a third ; a 



white streah at the anal angle. 

 Habitat Scotland, local 5 England. 



Genus Coniopteryx, Curtis ; Coniortes y Westwood. 



Small ; the entire creature, wings and all, with a white 

 mealy covering. Antennas moniliform; last joint of 

 the labial palpi very long ; neuration very simple ; 

 2 sectors. 



Larva aphidivorous, on fir trees ; cocoon oval, of close- 

 spun silk. 



30. Coniopteryx tineiformis, Curt. ; Steph. 116, 1. 

 Exp. 3 lin. 



Whitish-grey; antennae shorter than the body; abdomen 

 ochreous; hind wings hardly smaller than the fore 

 wings. 



Habitat England, common in June. 



31. C. aleyrodiformis, Steph. 116, 2. 

 Exp. 4 lin. 



Snow-white ; antennae evidently longer than the body, 

 brownish ; abdomen piceous ; hind wings rather 

 smaller than the fore wings. 



Habitat England, in June. 



