a Genus of Tineidce. 185 



sharply bordered internally by black scales ; it has three broad 

 blunt teeth, the second of which is confined on each side by a 

 deep indentation, but the first is the shortest ; the white streak is 

 continued to the end of the cilia, and on them it encompasses the 

 prolongation of the ground-colour. Cilia grey. Posterior wings 

 narrow, pointed from the base, grey, with paler cilia." 



Found by Herr Mann at the end of April, near Montenero, and 

 at the beginning of May at Ardenza, sparingly. 



Sp. 18. Phasianipennella, Hvibner. (PI. XV. fig. 2.) 



Alis anticis nitidulis fuscis, gutta dorsi medii pallida distinctiore, 

 intus nigro-marginata, tribus costae obsoletissimis. 



Phasianipennella, Hub. Tin. 321 ; Tr. X. 2, S. 209, 13 ; X. 3, 

 S. 298 ; Zell. Isis, 1838, S. 675, 100 ; Linn. Ent. ii. 350. 



Readily recognized by the pale triangular mark on the inner 

 margin of the anterior wings, the other spots being very faint, or 

 not perceptible. 



Head and face shining yellowish-brown ; palpi dirty whitish, 

 the terminal joint brown, with only the base and apex appearing 

 in certain directions whitish ; antennae pale, with darker annula- 

 tions ; thorax yellowish-brown ; abdomen brown-grey ; the four 

 anterior legs have the femora and tibiae black-brown, tarsi brown, 

 the bases of the joints white ; hinder legs dirty whitish, the ends 

 of the joints brownish. 



Anterior wings broad, (appearing from the cilia broadest toward 

 the hinder margin,) shining yellowish-brown, with a very slight 

 violet-gloss. Near the middle of the inner margin is a small, tri- 

 angular, faint yellowish, or whitish spot, the apex of which reaches 

 beyond the fold of the wing, and has some dark brown scales round 

 it ; the base of this spot is sometimes prolonged along the inner 

 margin, to near the base of the wing, as a narrow white streak ; 

 on the costa, just before the apex, are two faint, small, yellowish 

 spots, and a little before the middle of the costa a still fainter spot 

 may sometimes be perceived, with slightly darker margins ; on the 

 hinder margin are two still more evanescent paler margins, which 

 are only perceptible in very fine specimens ; the apical cilia are 

 brown, with a darker line before their ends, and the ends also 

 darker ; inner marginal cilia grey. 



Posterior wings shining grey, with grey cilia. 



Not rare on the Continent, but its late period of flight, October, 

 has probably caused it to be overlooked here. Hybernated spe- 

 cimens will occur in the spring, as of most of the other Gracilarice. 



