a Genus of Tineidce. 191 



three specimens, along a hedge amongst Rhamnus frangula, after 

 a short, warm shower." 



From its appearing so early in May, it is probably, like Aitro- 

 gultella, double-brooded. 



Sp. 22. Ononidis, Zeller. (Plate XV. fig. 7.) 



Alis anticis fuscis, guttulis costse quatuor, dorsi quatuor, apicis 

 una argenteis ; epistomio argenteo, palpis albis. 



Ononidis, Z. Isis, 1839, S. 209; Linn. Ent. ii. 358. 

 Argentipunctella, Stainton. Zool. 2163. 

 Moniliella, Tengstrom. Fjaril. Fauna, p. 147. 



Readily distinguished in this genus, by the silver spots on the 

 brown anterior wings. Tengstrom, not having seen the insect 

 alive, had fallen into the very natural error of taking it for an 

 Elachisla, and compared it with Elachista pomposella, with which 

 it has a slight resemblance. 



Expansion of the wings 3| lines. 



Head brown ; face silvery ; palpi white, the base of the second 

 joint brownish ; antennae brown, annulated with whitish ; thorax 

 brown ; abdomen greyish-brown. The four anterior legs have the 

 femora and tibiae brown, the tarsi white, with the ends of the 

 joints brown. The posterior legs have the femora greyish-brown ; 

 tibiae brown, with the base whitish, and the extreme end white ; 

 tarsi brown, with the ends of the joints white. 



Anterior wings brown, with nine silvery spots ; four of which 

 are situated on the costa, four along the inner margin, and one at 

 the apex ; all these spots have dark margins. The first of these 

 silvery spots is situated near the inner margin, not far from the 

 base, and is round ; beyond it, on the costa, lies the second, which 

 is very small ; hardly separated from this by the ground colour is 

 the third, which is narrow, and extends in an oblique direction to 

 the fold of the wing, and then drops perpendicularly upon the 

 inner margin ; the fourth spot is on the costa, about the middle, 

 it is narrow, obliquely placed, and reaches half across the 

 wing, pointing to the fifth spot ; this latter lies on the inner 

 margin, is very small, and has its apex turned rather towards the 

 hinder margin ; the sixth spot lies on the costa, as far beyond the 

 fourth as that is beyond the second spot, it is slightly curved and 

 pointed, and almost unites with the seventh spot, which is situated 

 on the inner margin, at the anal angle ; the eighth spot lies on the 

 costa, a little before the apex, and is prolonged on the costal cilia, 

 it is somewhat curved ; the ninth spot lies at the apex of the wing, 



