ADELA] TINEIDAE 795 



whitish. Forewings shining brassy-bronzy, sometimes partly or 

 wholly coppery. Hindwings dark purplish-fuscous. 



England to York, N. Ireland, local; C. Europe; 5. Larva 

 whitish-yellowish ; head and plate of 2 blackish ; 3 and 4 fuscous 

 above : in seed -vessels, afterwards in flat rounded -elongate 

 brown cases on loaves of Cardamine pratensis and Sisymbrium 

 alliaria ; 7-10. In Continental specimens the fore wings have 

 sometimes a pale yellowish dorsal spot beyond middle. 



3. A. croeseUa, Sc. (sukdla, Schiff.) 11-13 mm. Head 

 ferruginous mixed with black. Antennae in $ 2J, black, tip 

 white ; in 9 hardly 1 J, thickened with violet-black scales to 

 above middle, remainder white. Forewings shining dark violet- 

 fuscous, more or less streaked suftusedly between veins with 

 golden -ochreous; a straight deep yellow fascia close beyond 

 middle, narrower costally, edged first with dark fuscous am! 

 then with narrow violet fasciae. Hindwings dark purplish- 

 fuscous. 



England to York, local ; C. Europe, WC. and N. Asia ; 6. 

 Larva whitish ; head and plate of 2 brown : when young prob- 

 ably in the blossoms, afterwards in a flat case granulated with 

 earth on fallen leaves of Liyustrum; 8-3. 



4. A. degeerella, L. 15-19 mm. Head ferruginous-yellowish. 

 Antennae in $ over 3, white, becoming dark fuscous towards 

 base ; in 9 1 J, thickened with black scales on lower half, 

 towards apex white. Forewings light shining yellow-ochreous, 

 veins streaked with dark fuscous, in 9 posteriorly sometimes 

 wholly dark fuscous ; a yellow fascia at 4, slightly inwardly 

 oblique, edged with narrow violet-leaden blackish-edged fasciae ; 

 8 and 9 stalked. Hindwings dark purplish -fuscous ; 6 and 7 

 stalked. 



England to Cumberland, S. Ireland, common ; Europe, Asia 

 .Minor; 6. Larva yellowish-white; head and plate of 2 black; 

 3 and 4 with grey spots : in broad flat case of leaf -fragments on 

 various low plants and fallen leaves ; 9-3. 



5. A. viridella, Sc. 14-16 mm. Head black, in 9 sometimes 

 ochreous- mixed, face in 9 smooth. Antennae in $ nearly 3, 

 white above: in 9 1J, black, thickened towards base, towards 

 apex white. Forewings bright shining brassy - bronzy, costa 

 coppery-tinged. Hindwings dark purplish-fuscous. 



England, very common ; Europe, Asia Minor ; 5, 6. Larva 

 in broad flat case of leaf-fragments on fallen leaves ; 9-3. Egg 

 laid in midrib of leaf. 



6. A. cuprella, Thnb. 14-15 mm. Head in <$ black, in 



