a Genus of Tineidoe. 127 



gins of the trigonal costal mark, which is hardly any paler than 

 the rest of the wing ; there are also several scattered reddish 

 brown spots along the costa, and between the fold and the inner 

 margin, and a larger one across the fold towards the anal angle. 

 In var b the dark markings are less sharply defined, and appear 

 gradually to fade into the less ochreous ground colour. In var. c 

 the dark markings consist only of three very distinct brown spots 

 along the fold, and a few smaller spots along the costa and inner 

 margin. In var. d there is a brown spot on the fold a little 

 before the middle, and another in the middle, from the latter a 

 brown streak extends to the extreme apex of the wing. In var. e, 

 which in other respects resembles var. b, the costa from the com- 

 mencement of the trigonal mark is pale yellowish. In var. f, the 

 ground colour of the anterior wings is deep reddish brown, with 

 the pale costa of var. e, and also a pale inner margin. In var. g, 

 the anterior wings are unicolorous rufous, with a slight purplish 

 gloss, and entirely unspotted. 



Posterior wings shining grey, with greyish, slightly ochreous, 

 cilia. 



This insect, the critical examination of which has cost me a 

 great deal of time, has been taken in considerable numbers by 

 Mr. Cooke of Warrington, and it is owing to that gentleman's 

 extreme industry in capturing so many specimens, and to his great 

 liberality in sending me a splendid series of interminable varieties, 

 that I have been able to describe it so fully. I must candidly 

 confess to some still remaining doubts whether it be identical or 

 not with elongella. But elongella, not a scarce insect on the con- 

 tinent, appears never to have a costal triangle ; now in incon- 

 slans the costal triangle is generally present : the only good dis- 

 tinctive character of the unicolorous specimens is the pale hinder 

 femora. 



In this country inconstans is widely distributed, occurring, though 

 generally only singly, nearly in every part of England, and in the 

 south of Scotland. 



Sp. 10. Elongella, Linnaeus. 



" Alis anticis rufis postice purpurascentibus ; femoribus tibiisque 



quatuor anterioribus brunneo- vel cinereo-rufis, coxis posticis 



apice albidis." 

 Elongella, L. S. N. 1, 2, p. 890, 385; F. S. 368, 1436; Fab. 



Ent. Syst. 3, 2, 307 ; Zell. Lin. Ent. ii. 334. 

 Signipennella, Tr. ix. 2, S. 200 ; x. 3, S. 297 ; Dup. xi. 598, 



pi. 311, f. 11. 



