of Five New Species of Co/eop/tora. 41 I 



Piilpi, face, head and thorax shining golden brown. Antennae 

 white, annulated with fuscous; the basal joint, scarcely thickened, 

 is, with the next, golden-brown. Anterior wings shining golden- 

 brown, rather narrow and slightly falcate at the tijos. Cilia (costal) 

 shining golden-brown, extending to the anal angle ; the remainder 

 purplish, mixed with golden brown. Posterior wings bronze- 

 coloured, witli greyish-brown cilia. All the legs and underside of 

 the abdomen of a shining pale golden-brown colour, having a 

 silvery lustre. Underside of all the wings purplish-fuscous; the 

 tips of the anterior pair golden-brown. Cilia of the anterior pair 

 golden-brown at the anal angle and along the costa; the remainder, 

 as well as those of the posterior pair, purplish-brown. 



This insect is allied to and very much resemh]es C. fuscedinella, 

 but the wings are much narrower than in that species, and are 

 besides falcate at the tips. These characters will enable any one 

 to separate it from fuscedinella. 



The larva lives in a singularly stumpy case, reminding one of a 

 miniatfire J'iminelella, but it is rather stouter and only about one- 

 half its length. The specimens from which my description has 

 been made were bred from cases found by Mr. Eedles on nut-trees. 

 The perfect insect appears in July. 



Coleophora Wilkinsoni. 



Antennis distincte fusco et albido annidatis, apice albo arti- 

 culo basali incrassato, nitidulo ; alis anticis fusco-murinis, ni- 

 tidis. 



Exp. alar. 5 — 7'". 



Head and face mouse-coloured grey, metallic. Palpi white. 

 Antennae distinctly annulated with fuscous and white to beyond 

 the middle, the remaining portion white ; basal joint of the antennse 

 thickened, mouse-coloured grey. Anterior wings mousQ-coloured 

 grey, shining. Posterior wings the same. Cilia of all the wings 

 unicolorous. Hinder legs silvery white. 



This insect belongs to the iccifolia group of the genus, in which 

 the perfect insects assumf more or less n Icad-colouied appear- 

 ance, so that when they are captured, and not bred, so great is 

 their similarity to each other that the most experienced eye has a 

 difficulty in distinguishing them. The insect which I have de- 

 scribed as Coleophora Wilkinsoni is nearly allied to siccifolia, but 

 may be distinguished from that species by the annulations on the 

 antennae being only continued for about half their length, whereas 

 in siccifolia the annulation is carried throughout. Again, in 6icci- 



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