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more or less spotted with crimson; head pale brown : in greenish 

 blotches in leaves of Chenopodium and Atriplex; 7, 9. 



2. A. stipella, Hb. (naeviferella, Dup.) 8-10 rum. Head 

 metallic brassy-grey. Forewings dark purplish-grey, mixed with 

 black, with some whitish scales; a yellow subdorsal spot in 

 middle, and a smaller one in disc posteriorly; an ill-defined 

 ochreous- white tornal spot, and another on costa at f. Hind- 

 wings grey. 



England, E. Ireland, common; C. and S. Europe, Asia 

 Minor; 5, 6, 8. Larva yellow-whitish; dorsal line brownish; 

 lateral line of orange -reddish spots; head pale brown; plate 

 of 2 blackish : in whitish blotches in leaves of Chenopodium and 

 Atriplex; 6, 9, 10. Only the variety naeviferella, which is the 

 form described above, occurs in Britain; the typical stipella, 

 which has the yellow markings much more largely developed, 

 is South European. 



3. A. pictella, Z. $ 9-10 mm., $ 8 mm. Head white. 

 Antennae with apical third white. Forewings blackish ; two 

 bars from costa, at \ and J, a straight sometimes interrupted 

 oblique fascia at f , and an apical spot silvery-metallic ; white 

 spots in cilia on costal extremity of fascia and at apex. Hind- 

 wings pale grey. 



Kent to Dorset and York, Lancashire, local, in sandy places; 

 C. Europe, Asia Minor ; 6, 8. Larva light rosy ; head pale 

 brown ; 2 brownish : in silken galleries on Cerastium triviale ; 

 5,7. 



4. A. tarquiniella, Stt. Differs from A. pictella in the 

 absence of the posterior silvery fascia of forewings. 



E. Ireland (Dublin), on sandhills, local ; not recorded else- 

 where ; 6. Possibly a geographical form of A. pictella. 



5. A. subdecurtella, Stt. 12-14 mm. Forewings dark 

 fuscous, with a broad light reddish-ochreous dorsal streak ending 

 in a bar at tornus ; three very ill-defined fasciae of white 

 irroration more distinct dorsally, first almost basal, second 

 about J, oblique, third beyond middle, broad; silvery-white 

 opposite costal and tornal spots at f , sometimes connected ; an 

 indistinct fine blackish line along fold ; stigmata blackish, ill- 

 defined. Hindwings grey. 



Norfolk, Cambridge, local, in fens ; N. Germany ; 7. Larva 

 in spun shoots of Ly thrum salicaria ; 6. 



6. A. ericinella, Dup. 12-13 mm. Forewings dark fuscous; 

 a dorsal streak to beyond middle, and sometimes a posterior 

 spot in disc reddish-ochreous ; a spot on dorsum at base, an 



