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Awards apex. Hindwinirs nearly 1, cilia less than 2; dark 

 purplish-fuscous; 5 absent.. 



Finland, Idea] : <'. Furop<- : 7. Larva dull grey-green, With 



ral whitish lines; dots blackish; head brown black: in a 

 slight web amongst shoots of Tk-ymu* : 5. 



4. S. laminella, /AS'. Oil mm. Abdomen in $ beneath 

 with paleoehreous-yellowish smteapk-al blotch. Forewings rather 

 .-hort -pointed, dark purplish -bron/y-fuscous. Hindwings , 

 cilia over 2 : dark fuscous ; 5 absent. 



Sussex, Dorset, local: < '. Furope; 7. Larva dull brown. 

 ui-h tinned \ Hti,~j,iracular line whitish-yellowish ; head and 

 1 dull yellowish, laterally blackish-marked : in a loose 

 web anion^ stems of Hdicfttthemw* : 5, 6. 



5. S. fuscocuprea, //"'. 9-11 mm. Abdomen in 9 beneath 

 with an ochreous- whitish suffusion on ante-apical segment. 

 Fore win^s rath'-r hhort-j/oiuted, shining dark bron/y. Hind- 

 winjrs nearly 1, cilia less than 2; dark purplish -fuscous ; 4 

 and "> connate or stalked. 



England, K. Ireland, local; France, Germany ; 6,7. Larva 

 -iijrht we) amongst shoots of Lotus comicitlatus ; 5. 



0. S. siccella, Z. S-9 mm. Abdomen in 9 beneath becoming 



v-whitish jH>sterior! A in^s rather short-ix>inted, dark 



fuscous, more or less sprinkled with whitish hair-scales; fold 

 blackish, with a white streak or dash, variable in development, 

 before middle, sometimes nearly reaching base, and a white dot 

 lightly beyond middle. Hindwings f, cilia 3; dark fuscous; 

 absent. 



Dorset, local; (.-. Furope : 7. Larva slender, dull purple; 

 incisions paler, between 2-0 whitish; spots sometimes white; 

 head and plate of 2 black-brown : in long; silken galleries alonjr 

 stems of Tkijnt.y.x, Lotus, Plantago, Cerastium, etc., mining into 



5- 



7. S. variella, Xt/Jt. 9-10 mm. Abdomen more or less 

 wholly suffused with whitish. Forewin^s mcxlerately jxjinted, 

 grey to dark fuscous, strewn with whitish scales; an indistinct 

 whitish spot on fold before middle, a larger one beyond middle, 

 and another on tornus. Hindwings f, cilia 3 ; light grey; 5 

 absent. 



Hants, Dorset, local; N. and NC. Furope; 6, 7. Larva 

 slender, dull purple- brown ; head black; plate of 2 dark 

 brown: in long silken galleries along sterns of Erica and 



llari/i : 5. 



8. S. chenopodiella, lib. 14-15 mm. Abdomen suffused 



