90 LEPIDOPTERA. 



by Curtis in the "Annals of Natural History," 1850, p. 116, 

 from a specimen taken in the New Forest by Sir C. Lyell. 



Gelechia albipalpella, Herrich-SchafFer. 

 Alis anticis nigris, maculis duabus oppositw albidis pone 

 medium. 



Exp. al. 5 lin. 



Head and face grey. Palpi greyish-white, externally with 

 a dark grey line. Antennae blackish, annulated with whitish. 

 Anterior wings black, rather glossy, with two small whitish 

 opposite spots beyond the middle, which seem to have a 

 tendency to form a straight interrupted fascia ; the tip of the 

 wing is a little irrorated with pale grey scales ; cilia dark 

 grey, intersected by a blackish hinder marginal line. Pos- 

 terior wings fuscous, with pale fuscous cilia. 



This insect may be readily distinguished from Anthyllidella 

 and Atrella by the position and colour of the spots. In Coro- 

 nillella the position of the spots is the same, but in that species 

 they are dull yellowish, instead of conspicuously whitish ; 

 besides that, in Coronillella, both the anterior and the pos- 

 terior wings are much broader than in Albipalpella. 



I bred three specimens of this from larvae I found near 

 Horsell, June 20th, on Genista anglica ; the larva drew 

 several leaves together round the stem, and then ate them half 

 through, thus discolouring them and forming conspicuous 

 clusters of yellowish white leaves. The larva had consider- 

 able resemblance to that of G. tceniolella, and I was uncertain 

 whether it would not produce that species. Mr. Scott has 

 this autumn collected the same larva near York. 



