142 LEPIDOPTERA. 



lines, which at least between the median and subdorsal veins 

 are never interrupted by the ground colour, by the presence 

 of a whitish shady-fascia between the base of the wing and 

 the first transverse line, by the want of black longitudinal 

 spots before and behind the second transverse line. 



From Adornatella it is distinguished by the paler white 

 of the anterior wings, the presence of the whitish fascia, the 

 slight angles of the second transverse line. 



From Petrella by its much smaller size, the dark and un- 

 transparent posterior wings, the presence of the whitish 

 fascia of the anterior wings, the livelier colouring. 



From So7'oriella and Thymiella by the much deeper, 

 brown-yellow ground colour, the thicker transverse lines on 

 the anterior wings, &c. 



Size of the smaller and smallest specimens of Ornatella. 

 Head and thorax brownish loam-yellow. Labial palpi of 

 the male of the size and form as in Oi^natella. The tuft of 

 the maxillary palpi of the male rust-yellow, nearly as long 

 as the labial palpi; the maxillary palpi of the female, visible 

 at the side of the face, rather thick, filiform, small. Tongue 

 scaled above. Scale-bristle of the antennae as in Ornatella, 

 Legs brown-grey, tarsi brown with whitish ends of the 

 joints ; middle and hinder tibiae pale grey, rather clouded 

 before the apex with dark bands. Abdomen brown-grey, 

 with yellowish edges of the joints, which in the female are 

 narrower than in Ornatella; anal end yellow. 



Anterior wings with the apex rather blunter than in 

 Ornatella, lively brown yellow ; whitish along the costa as 

 far as the first transverse line, and then on the disc from the 

 costa more or less deeply inwards. Not far from the base 

 is an oblique, tapering (generally not completely reaching the 

 inner margin), whitish shady-fascia, which anteriorly unites 

 with the first transverse line, and with it includes a large. 



