756 TINEINA [LEUCOPTEKA 



follows : forewings bluish-tinged, postmedican costal bar longer, 

 nearly touching anteapical spot beneath, apex of wing suffused 

 with dark fuscous. 



England, local ; France, Germany ; 5, 7. Larva pale 

 greenish : in galleries terminating in blotches in leaves of 

 Genista tinctoria ; 6, 8. 



Section B. Crown rough posteriorly ; 10 of forewings 

 present. 



6. L. lotella, Stt. 5-6 mm. Forewings light shining metallic 

 grey ; apical half beyond an oblique line orange, enclosing two 

 white dark -edged costal spots, and a post-tornal pale golden 

 spot partly black-edged anteriorly and followed by a coppery- 

 black apical spot ; a black vertical bar in cilia at apex, a bar 

 before and two diverging bars beyond it, penultimate directed 

 upwards. Hindwings rather dark grey. 



Dorset, Suffolk, Norfolk, York, local ; not recorded else- 

 where ; 5, 6. Larva yellow-whitish ; head and plate of 2 pale 

 brown : in blotches in leaves of Lotus corniculatus ; 7, 8. 



7. L. scitella, Zk 7-8 mm. Differs from L. lotella as follows: 

 forewings broader, post-tornal spot pale violet-golden, strongly 

 black-margined on both sides, apex of wing orange, penultimate 

 bar in cilia horizontal. 



England, local ; C. Europe, Asia Minor ; 6, 7. Larva green- 

 whitish; head and plate of 2 blackish : in blotches in leaves of 

 hawthorn, apple, and Pyrus aucuparia ; 8, 9. 



12. LYONETIA, Hb. 



Head rough above, face smooth. Tongue short. Antennae 

 over 1, in (J simple, basal joint dilated and concave beneath to 

 form eyecap. Labial palpi short, filiform, drooping, pointed. 

 Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae shortly hairy. 

 Forewings : Ib furcate, 3 absent, 4 absent, 6 sometimes absent, 

 7 to costa, 8 absent, 10 absent. Hindwings under J, linear, 

 cilia 7-9 ; transverse vein absent between 2 and 5, 3 absent, 4 

 absent, 6 absent. 



A genus of very few species, but occurring throughout the 

 Northern hemisphere and Australia ; correlated with the 

 preceding. Imago with forewings very narrowly lanceolate. 

 Larva mining in leaves of trees or shrubs. Pupa in an elongate 

 white cocoon suspended by threads from its ends. 



Forewings with dark discal posterior blotch . 2. clerkella. 

 without such blotch . 1. prunifoliella. 



