364 PYRALIDINA [ANERASTIA 



Ammophila, Aira, Festuca, etc. ; 5, 6. On the Continent this 

 larva has sometimes been exceedingly destructive to rye. 



2. GYMNANCYLA, Z. 



Face smooth. Antennae in $ shortly ciliated, with sinuation 

 above base. Labial palpi rather long, porrected, with dense 

 appressed scales, terminal joint short, hardly pointed. Maxillary 

 palpi in $ terminating in a long pencil of hairs, in $ moderate, 

 tolerably filiform. Forewings : 4 and 5 rather approximated. 

 Hindwings : cell not reaching middle, 3 and 4 stalked, 5 absent, 



7 closely approximated to 8 to near middle. 



Contains only the one species. Imago with forewings narrow, 

 costa hardly arched. 



1. Gr. canella, lib. 21-23 mm. Forewings greyish-ochreous, 

 terminally whitish-sprinkled ; a pale suffused costal streak ; 

 first line hardly pale, edged posteriorly by three dark fuscous 

 dots on veins ; two dark fuscous transversely placed discal dots ; 

 second line pale, edged anteriorly with some dark fuscous 

 scales, posteriorly with pale rosy-ochreous. Hindwings light 



g^y- 

 Kent to Dorset and Suffolk, E. Ireland, on coasts, local; 

 C. Europe ; 6, 7. Larva blue-green to reddish-grey ; dorsal 

 line dark green or rosy ; subdorsal and supraspiracular pale ; 

 3 and 12 with pale pinkish-ochreous black-ringed lateral spots; 

 head pale brownish-ochreous, blackish-marked : mining in stem 

 until nearly full-grown, finally in a slight web on Salsola kali ; 

 8,9. 



3. PEMPELIA, Hb. 



Face with rounded-conical projection of scales. Antennae in 

 $ shortly ciliated, with sinuation above base, filled with dense 

 projecting scales. Labial palpi moderately long, ascending, 

 with tolerably appressed scales, terminal joint short, hardly 

 pointed. Maxillary palpi in $ terminating in a long pencil of 

 hairs, in <j? moderate, tolerably filiform. Forewings : 4 and 5 

 approximated. Hindwings : cell not reaching middle, 3 and 4 

 stalked, 5 absent, 7 closely approximated or anastomosing with 



8 to near middle. 



A rather generally distributed genus of limited extent. Imago 

 with forewings narrow, costa scarcely arched. 



Forewings more or less mixed with crimson . 1. dilutella. 



not mixed with crimson . . 2. ornatella. 



1. P. dilutella, Hb. (adornatella, Tr. ; subornatella, Dup.) 



