EPICIIXOPTERYX] 



TINEIDAE 



773 



Kent to Hants and Essex, in Bait-marshes, local ; Holland ; 6. 

 Larva pinkish-white; head black; 2-4 with dark brown plates: 

 case covered with fragments of grass and Conferva; on grass (?); 

 9-4. 



2. E. pulla, Esp. (radiella, Curt.) 11-14 mm. Forewings 

 and hindwings rather thinly clothed with dark fuscous hair- 

 M-alc-s : i) and usually 10 of forewings present. 



Kent to Hants and Essex, local; C. and S. Europe, Asia 

 Minor ; 5, G. Larva whitish, purplish-tinged ; head black ; 2-4 

 blackish-marked : case covered with longitudinally placed frag- 

 ments of grass; on grass; 7-4. 



24. FUMEA, ffb. 



Head rough. Tongue obsolete. Antennae in <$ J, bipectinated 

 to apex. Labial palpi short, porrected, densely hairy. Maxillary 

 palpi rudimentary. Posterior 

 tibiae smooth - scaled above. 

 Forewings scaled ; Ib furcate, 

 7 to apex, 7 and 8 sometimes 

 short -stalked, 9 absent. Hind- 

 wings under 1, ovate, cilia J; 4 

 absent. ? apterous. 



A small European genus, of 

 which the species, from their 

 obscurity and similarity, are 

 still imperfectly understood. 

 I ma go with forewings elongate 

 or rather broad, costa moderately 

 arched, termen oblique. Larva 

 in a portable case covered with 



refuse Xuuration of Funiea intermcdielh 



1. Forewings with apex obtuse or rounded 



,, ,, distinctly pointed 



2. Forewings purplish-tinged, apex obtuse 



bronzy-tinged, apex rounded 



3. Forewings uniformly dark 



,, paler-mixed 



1. F. crassiorella, Brd. $ 14-15 mm. 



2. 

 . 3. 



1. crassiorella, 



2. intermediella. 



3. betulina. 



4. sepium. 



Forewings rather 



broad, apex tolerably obtuse ; dark fuscous, purplish -tinged. 

 Hindwings rather dark fuscous. <j> with anal tuft grey-whitish, 

 brownish-mixed. 



Surrey, Middlesex, local ; SC. Europe ; 7. Larva light 

 purplish-brown ; subdorsal and spiracular lines on 2-4 reddish ; 



