a Genus of Tineidcc. 123 



Falconipennella, Hub. Tin. 317; Tr, ix. 2, S. 203; x. 3, S. 

 237 ; Zeller, Linn. Ent. 2, 323. 



Nearest allied to hemidactylella, but the anterior wings are 

 longer, narrower and darker, and the costal spots are generally 

 more distinct. The inner margin beyond the middle has also 

 some small brown spots, which in hemidactylella are entirely 

 wanting. 



Expansion of the wings 6 — G\ lines. 



Head and face greyish brown ; palpi on the upper side dirty 

 whitish, the terminal joint reddish brown (in all the three specimens 

 I have before me ; Zeller states in the Linn. Ent. that this joint is 

 frequently entirely whitish on the upper side), the apex whitish, 

 externally the palpi are entirely of a red brown, except the apex ; 

 antennae annulated yellowish and red brown ; thorax reddish, or 

 greyish brown ; abdomen dark grey, beneath white ; the two first 

 pair of legs have the femora and tibiae reddish brown, the tarsi 

 dirty yellowish, with the ends of the joints reddish brown ; pos- 

 terior legs, femora and tibiae dirty yellowish white at their bases, 

 and dirty brownish at the ends, tarsi dirty yellowish white, with 

 ends of the joints browner. 



Anterior wings reddish or grey-brown, darkest from the base 

 to the basal side of the costal triangle ; this triangle is hardly 

 perceptibly paler than the rest of the wing, it does not reach be- 

 yond the fold of the wing, and has dark margins on both sides ; 

 these, however, are not as sharply denned as in hemidactylella. 

 The costa itself, from the commencement of the triangle to imme- 

 diately before the apex, is whitish-yellow, with numerous dark 

 brown spots, and along the inner margin beyond the middle are 

 also some dark brown spots, and in the apical portion of the wing 

 there is generally a brown patch above the anal angle ; apical cilia 

 reddish brown, with the ends darker, inner marginal cilia grey. 



Posterior wings grey, with yellowish grey cilia. 



Scarce in this country ; specimens are in the collections of 

 Messrs. Stephens, Shepherd and Bedell. 



Zeller says that " it flies in oak, birch, and especially alder 

 woods, from the branches of which it is beaten out. Its proper 

 period of flight is the end of summer and entire autumn. It also 

 occurs in April, but has then usually the appearance of having 

 hybernated. It is nowhere abundant," but occurs in many parts 

 of the Continent. 



