MICROSETIA. 313 



LITHOCOLLET1S SPINOLELLA. 



(Plate CLVIII., Fig. 6.) 

 Phal&na blancardella, Donovan, Brit. Ins. xi. p. 90, pi. 392, 



fig. 2 (1806) nec Fabririus. 

 Argyromiges sytvella, Duncan in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Brit. 



Moths, p. 262, pi. 30, fig. i (1835) nec Curtis. 

 Elachista spinoldla, Duponchel, Lepid. France, xi. p. 535, 



pi. 308, fig. 8 (1838); Herrich-Schaffer, Schmett. 



Eur. v. p. 332, fig. 797 (1854). 



Elachista hilarella, Zetterstedt, Ins. Lapp. p. 1010 (1840). 

 Lithocolletis spmolella, Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 273 



(1854); id. Nat. Hist. Tineina, ii. p. 136, pi. 3, fig. 2 (1857). 

 LitJiocolktis spinicolella^ Von Heinemann & Wocke, Schmett. 



Deutschl. (2), ii. (2), p. 671 (1877). 



This Moth is found throughout Central Europe. It expands 

 from three lines and a half to four lines and a half. 



The fore- wings are saffron-yellow, more or less suffused with 

 grey, with a straight basal streak, a slightly curved transverse 

 band, three hooks on the costa, and two on the hind margins, 

 si) very-white. The hind-wings are grey. 



The larva mines the under-surface of the leaves of Salix 

 caprea and S. silesiaca, &c. 



GENUS MICROSETIA. (Nepticulida?) 

 Microsetia, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 263 (1834). 

 Nepticula, Zeller, Linn. Ent. iii. p. 301 (1848); Stainton, Ins. 

 Brit. Tineina, p. 295 (1854); id. Nat. Hist. Tineina, 

 i. p. 2 (1855) ; Von Heinemann & Wocke, Schmett. 

 Deutschl. (2) ii. (2), p. 727 (1877). 



The head is hairy, the antennae rather thick, and not more 

 than two-thirds as long as the fore- wings j the labial palpi are 



