298 _ Mr. H. T. Stainton's Syno-psis 



on the costa being rather ilie posterior), united by a spot on the 

 disc placed beyond them. 



The hirva, which is whitish with a faint purple tinge, mines the 

 leaves of a species of Carex, making narrow whitish raised blotches 

 in March and April. 



The perfect insect appears in June and July. It occurs pretty 

 generally in England, and has been noticed in Scotlarid ; also in 

 Finland, and at Zurich, Ratisbon and Vienna. 



7. Elachista Apicipunclella, Stainton. 



Distinguished by the silvery white marking and the apical spot 



beyond the two opposite spots. The male most resembles Albi- 



fronlella, but is distinguished by the apical spot ; the female, 



which has a basal silvery fascia (entirely wanting in the male), 



has great resemblance with Gle'icJienclln, but is larsjer : the mark- 

 is ' o ' 



ings are less golden, more silvery ; the opposite and apical spots 

 are not united to form a fascia, and the apical third of the antennae 

 is white. 



Male. — Expansion of the wings 5 lines. Head white; anterior 

 wings brownish black ; a curved central fascia nearest the base 

 on the costa ; two opposite spots beyond the middle (that on the 

 costa rather posterior), and an apical spot beyond them, silvery 

 white. 



Female. — Expansion of the wings 4| lines. Head white ; an- 

 tennae fuscous; the apical third white; anterior wings dark 

 brown-black ; a basal fascia, a central slightly oblique fascia, 

 two opposite spots beyond the middle (that on the costa rather 

 posterior), and an apical spot beyond them, silvery white. 



Larva unknown, 



The perfect insect appears in June, frequenting boggy places 

 in the south of Scotland. Herrich-Schaffer says it occurs at 

 Glogau and Weissenfels ; it also occurs at Lyons. 



8. Elachista AlbifronleUa, Hiibner. 



Distinguished from the preceding by the absence of the apical 

 spot, and by the white head and silvery white fasciae and spots 

 from Lut'tcomella, Flacicomella, Atncumella, &:c. 



Expansion of tiie wings 4 — i\ lines. Head silvery-white; an- 

 terior wings brown-black, with a slightly oblique fascia before the 

 middle, and two opposite spots beyond the middle (that on the 

 costa decidedly posterior), silvery-white. 



