646 TINEINA [COLEOPHORA 



with dense rough dark coppery -bronzy scales. Forewings 

 shining brassy-bronze, becoming coppery towards apex. Hind- 

 wings rather dark grey. 



England to Durham, rather common; C. Europe, Asia 

 Minor; 6, 7. Larva probably in seed -heads of one of the 

 Legwninosae. 



2. 0. deauratella, Z. 12-13 mm. Head metallic bronze. 

 Antennae dark grey, apex white, towards base thickened with 

 dense dark coppery-bronzy scales. Forewings shining brassy- 

 bronze, towards apex coppery-tinged. Hindwings dark grey. 



England to Westmoreland, N. Ireland, local ; N. and 0. 

 Europe, Asia Minor, Palestine ; 6, 7. Larva brownish-yellow ; 

 plate of 2, two spots on 3, and two on 4 dark brown : in a case 

 made of part of a floret, on flower-heads of Trifolium ; 8, 9. 



3. 0. frischella, L. (melilotella, Scott) 17-18 mm. Head 

 pale metallic bronze. Antennae dark grey, apex white, towards 

 base thickened with coppery-bronzy scales. Forewings bright 

 shining brassy-bronze, sometimes coppery-tinged. Hindwings 

 rather dark grey. 



Hants, Dorset, Herts, Cambridge, York, Durham, local ; 

 Sweden, France, Germany ; 6, 7. Larva in a cylindrical case 

 of seed-husks, on seeds of Melilotus officinalis ; 8-10. 



4. C. albitarsella, Z. 10-12 mm. Head shining blue-blackish 

 or dark grey. Antennae white, ringed with dark fuscous 

 except towards apex, towards base clothed with blackish scales. 

 Tarsi white except towards base. Forewings shining violet- 

 blackish. Hindwings dark grey. 



England to Durham, rather common; C. Europe; 6, 7. 

 Larva in a slender cylindrical slightly curved blackish brown 

 case, on Nepeta, Origanum, Calamintha, etc. ; 11-4. 



5. C. alcyonipennella, Roll. 11-13 mm. Head metallic 

 bronze. Antennae dark grey, apex whitish, base blackish, 

 hardly thickened. Forewings shining greyish-bronze, sometimes 

 coppery-tinged towards apex. Hindwings dark grey. 



England, E. Ireland, common; C. Europe, Asia Minor, WC. 

 Asia to Turkestan ; 6, 7. Larva yellow-whitish ; head, plate of 

 2, four spots on 3, and two on 4 black : in a straight cylindrical 

 blackish silken case, with whitish lateral streak, on Centaurea ; 

 9-6. 



6. 0. ahenella, Hein. 10-11 mm. Head shining fuscous. 

 Antennae white, ringed with dark fuscous, basal joint rather 

 dark fuscous. Forewings fuscous, somewhat shining. Hind- 

 wings dark grey. 



