STENOPTILIA] ITEKOI'HORIDAK 441 



times pale purplish or pale yellowish : on flowers of Eryikraea, 

 centaurium ; 6. 7. 



3. S. bipunctidactyla, //>. (amdus, Z. ; serotinus, Z. ; 

 plagiodactylus, Stt.) 18-23 mm. Fore wings brown, more or 

 less sprinkled with black and whitish ; a distinct clear 

 ochreous dorsal streak, sometimes reddish-tinged ; a blackish 

 dot 1 in disc at J, and a transverse spot at base of fissure ; 

 base of terminal cilia whitish, with several black dots. Hind- 

 wings dark fuscous. 



Britain to Ross, Ireland, common ; Europe, Asia Minor ; 6, 

 8. Larva green or pale greenish -yellow ; dorsal line rosy, 

 reddish-fuscous, or brown, sometimes obsolete : on shoots and 

 flowers of Scabiosa ; 5, 7. The variations of the imago tend to 

 be localised, probably through correlation to the character of 

 the food-plant. 



9. AGDISTIS, lib. 



Face with horny prominence. Ocelli distinct. Labial palpi 

 ascending, second joint with pro- 

 jecting scales beneath, terminal 

 short. Tibiae simple. Forewings 

 entire ; 8 and 9 separate, 9 and 

 10 sometimes connate. Hind- 

 wings entire, dorsum with rough 

 scales beneath ; 5 absent. 



A small European genus, ex- 

 tending into Africa. Whilst 

 agreeing with the rest of the Neuration of AgMstis Bennetii ' 

 family in essential structure, it yet differs most strikingly from 

 all. It doubtless represents the ancestral type of the family, 

 but only in a very modified form. 



1. A. Bennetii, Curt. 22-25 mm. Forewings greyish- 

 ochreous, towards costa and dorsum irrorated with blackish ; 

 a blackish dot in disc at J, two above dorsum before and 

 beyond middle, a fourth above and beyond third, and a fifth 

 below costa at f . Hind wings pale grey, darker dorsally ; 

 termen above tornus sprinkled with blackish. 



I. of Wight, Kent, Essex, York, local; not yet identified 

 elsewhere ; 7. Larva on Statice limonium ; 5. 



7. ORNEODIDAE. 



Ocelli distinct. Tongue developed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. 

 Forewings six-cleft, cell very short, 5 absent, 7 separate, 8 and 



