672 TINEINA [BLAOHISTA 



27. E. paludum, FT. 8-9 mm. Head in $ grey, in $ whitish. 

 Forewings rather dark fuscous or ochreous-grey, pale-sprinkled, 

 lighter in <j> ; plical stigma elongate, black, preceded and 

 followed by whitish marks ; a small tornal spot, and larger 

 triangular anteriorly dark-edged opposite costal spot white. 

 Hindwings dark grey. 



Dorset, Berks, Suffolk, Norfolk, Durham, local; Holland, 

 Germany ; 5, 6. Larva grey ; head brown ; 2 pale yellowish, 

 with two brown spots : in leaves of Carex paludosa and C. 

 paniculata ; 4, 5. 



28. E. biatomella, Sit. 7-8 mm. Head pale grey, face whitish. 

 Forewings ochreous - whitish, irrorated with grey; plical and 

 second discal stigmata elongate, black, plical preceded and 

 followed by whitish marks ; in darker specimens an oblique 

 triangular white spot is visible on costa at f , in paler specimens 

 it is obsolete. Hindwings grey. 



England, rather common ; Holland, Switzerland ; 5, 6, 8. 

 Larva yellowish ; head brown ; 2 with two pale brown spots : 

 in leaves of Carex glauca ; 4, 7. 



29. E. eleochariella, Stt. 7-8 mm. Head grey. Forewings 

 grey; plical stigrna black, preceded and followed by whitish 

 marks ; a small tornal spot, and an oblique wedge-shaped mark 

 on costa opposite whitish. Hindwings dark grey. 



Cambridge, York to the Clyde, local ; Germany (?) ; 6, 7. 

 Larva in leaves of Eriophorum and Carex ; 5. 



30. E. rhynchosporella, Stt. 9-10 mm. Head white. Fore- 

 wings white, costa and sometimes dorsum suffused with fuscous; 

 plical stigma large, elongate, black ; an angulated fuscous fascia 

 beyond middle, angle acutely produced towards apex ; small 

 fuscous costal and dorsal spots near apex. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey. 



England, local ; C. Europe ; 6, 7. Larva greenish-grey, more 

 yellowish anteriorly; head dark brown : in leaves of Eriophorum 

 and Carex; 5. 



31. E. scirpi, Stt. 9-12 mm. Head grey-whitish. Forewings 

 as in E. rhynchosporella, but fuscous markings more undefined, 

 apex of fascia not distinctly produced, a distinct minute black 

 apical dot. Hindwings rather dark grey. 



S. England to Norfolk and Pembroke, in salt-marshes, local ; 

 not recognised elsewhere; 6, 7. Larva pale greenish -yellow; 

 dorsal line indistinct ; head pale yellow : in short broad galleries 

 in leaves of Scirpus maritimus and Juncus compressus; 4, 5. 



32. E. cerusella, fib. 9-10 mm. Head whitish. Forewings 



