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Mr. H. T. Stainton's Monograph of the 



/3 Head blue-black. 

 6. Mansuetella. Anterior wings greenish golden, with three 



very indistinct reddish fasciae. 



7. Subpurpurella. 



8. Semipurpurella. 



9. Sparmannella. 



B. 



a Head grey. 



Anterior wings greenish golden, with a faint 

 paler spot towards the anal angle. 



Anterior wings purple, irrorated with pale 

 golden ; antennae more than half the length 

 of the anterior wings. 



Anterior wings golden, with numerous trans- 

 verse purple fasciae. 



/3 Head dark fuscous. 

 Antennae less than half the length of the anterior wings. 



10. Purpurella. Anterior wings golden, with numerous irre- 



gular purple fasciae, and the veins purple. 



11. Unimaculella. Anterior wings golden purple, with a con- 



spicuous whitish spot at the anal angle. 



Sp. 1. Calthella, Linnaeus. (Plate III. fig. 1 — 4.) 



Capillis ferrugineis ; alis anticis aureo-brunneis bast purpureo, a 

 cosla usque ad marginem interiorem ; alisque (post mortem) 

 sulcatis. 



Calthella, Linn. S. N. 895, 422; F. S. 367, 1432; Wien. Ver. 

 144, 36; Fabricius, Ent. Syst. 3, 2, 3±0 ; Haworth, Lep. 

 Brit, (o $ & y $), 573, 43; Treitschke, ix. 2, 117; Ste- 

 phens, 111. iv. 361, 18; Duponchel, xi. 401, pi. 302, fig. 6; 

 Curtis, Brit. Ent. vol. xvi. folio 751; Zeller, Isis, 1839, 

 p. 185; Zetterstedt, Ins. Lapp. 1008, 12; Eversmann, Fauna 

 Lep. V. U. 587, 2 ; Stainton, Cat. Tin., p. 8. 



Pusilella, Hiibner, 341 ? 



Sulcatella, Bentley, Zoologist, 1086. 



Exp. alar. $ S\ lin., 2 4| lin. 



Head of the male luteous, of the female ferruginous. Antennae 

 dark fuscous, about half the length of the anterior wings. Thorax 

 golden brown. Abdomen, legs and tarsi dark fuscous. Anterior 

 wings golden brown, with the base purple from the costa to the 

 inner margin; when the insect is dead the win<rs have a sulcated 

 appearance. (Zeller states that when alive they are even and 



