BTJZOPHERA] PHYCITIDAE 375 



minal joint moderate, pointed. Maxillary palpi short, filiform. 

 Forewings : 4 and 5 stalked. Hiudwings : cell reaching J, 3 and 

 4 short - stalked, 5 absent, 7 anastomosing with 8 to beyond 

 middle. 



Not very numerous in species, as now restricted, and mainly 

 characteristic of the Northern hemisphere. Imago with fore- 

 wings elongate, rather dilated, costa slightly arched. 



First line preceded by broad blackish band . 1. pinguis. 

 ,, not preceded by blackish band . 2. cinerosella. 



1. E. pinguis, Hw. (pinguedinella, Dbld.) 23-25 mm. Fore- 

 wings light brownish-ochreous, somewhat reddish-tinged, pale- 

 sprinkled, with a few blackish scales ; lines hardly paler, first 

 rather curved, edged anteriorly by a broad blackish band, 

 posteriorly by a thick blackish suffusion, second angulated in 

 middle, strongly edged with dark fuscous ; terminal area more 

 infuscated. Hindwings light fuscous. 



England to York, local ; Germany ; 7, 8. Larva pinkish- 

 ochreous ; dorsal line darker, interrupted ; a lateral spot on 3 

 and 12 ringed with reddish-brown ; head and plate of 2 reddish- 

 brown, blackish-marked : in bark of ash ; 9-6, perhaps some- 

 times living two years. 



2. E. cinerosella, Z. (artemisiella, Stt.) 17-23 mm. Forewings 

 brownish-ochi'eous, more or less mixed with dark fuscous, costal 

 half and termen suffused with whitish ; lines pale or partly 

 whitish, first angulated, more or less dark-edged posteriorly, 

 second twice indented, traversed by an oblique dark fuscous 

 shade from costa before apex to middle of disc ; two dark 

 fuscous transversely placed discal dots; a terminal series of 

 dark dots. Hindwings light fuscous. 



S. England to Pembroke and Norfolk, on coasts, local ; C. 

 Europe ; 7, 8. Larva greyish-ochreous-whitish ; dorsal line 

 darker ; a darker lateral ring on 3 and 1 2 ; head and plate of 

 2 reddish-brown : in roots of Artemisia absinthium ; 10-5. 



15. CATEREMNA, Meyr. 



Face smooth. Antennae in < shortly ciliated. Labial 

 palpi moderately long, curved, ascending, with appressed scales, 

 terminal joint moderate, pointed. Maxillary palpi moderate, 

 filiform. Forewings : 4 and 5 approximated. Hindwings : 

 cell reaching J, 3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 absent, 7 closely 

 approximated to 8 to middle. 



A small genus, but very widely distributed ; derived from 



