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TINEINA 



[aRACILARIA 



Neuration and head of Gracilaria 

 alchimiella. 



long, filiform, porrected. Posterior tibiae smooth-scaled. Fore- 

 wings : Ib simple, 3 sometimes absent, 7 to costa. Hind wings 

 about J, linear-lanceolate, cilia 4-5 ; 3 sometimes absent, trans- 

 verse vein absent between 4 

 and 5, 5 and 6 stalked. 



A genus of considerable ex- 

 tent and universal distribution. 

 Its immediate ancestry is ob- 

 scure, but it is probably an off- 

 shoot from a form approaching 

 Zelleria. Imago with fore- 

 wings narrow-elongate, pointed, 

 or elongate -lanceolate. Larva 

 without prolegs on 10, mining 

 blotches or forming rolled 

 conical chambers in leaves. The imago sits with the fore- 

 part much raised, the anterior and middle legs prominently 

 displayed. 



1. Forewings with several pale marginal spots or fasciae 2. 



with not more than two pale spots . 8. 



2. Forewings with apical white spot . . .3. 



,, without apical white spot . . 5. 



3. Forewings with two anterior subdorsal spots 13. ononidis. 



,, without subdorsal spots . . 4. 



4. Crown white except at back . 15. hofmanniella. 



wholly dark fuscous . 14. imperialeUa. 



5. Forewings with pale entire fasciae . 9. syringella. 



without entire fasciae . . .6. 



6. Forewings with oblique streaks from costa 12. omissella. 



with spots only . . .7. 



7. Forewings with three costal spots 10. phasianipenmlla. 



,, one subcostal and one costal spot 



1 1 . auroguttella. 



8. Forewings with white costal streak 8. tringipennella. 



without white costal streak . . 9. 



9. Forewings with white streak from costa before J 



5. semifascia. 

 ,, without such streak . . .10. 



10. Forewings with small black median costal spot 



6. populetorum. 

 without such spot . . .11. 



11. Costal blotch whitish . . . .12. 



,, ,, yellowish or obsolete . .13. 



