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Species 4. — Adela fasciella ° — (Fabricins, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1257, and our Plate CIX., Fie. 10) — 

 Expands 7 or 8 lines ; fore wings golden-copper, with an indistinct blackish bar across the middle ; hind wings 

 purplish-gold. The female has shorter antenuEe and a ferruginous head, that of the male being black. Taken 

 in June and July, and widely dispersed, though not common. 



" Synonyme. — Tinea Schiffermyllerella, Hiibner. 



Species 5. — Adela cuprellaP — (Haworth, &c. j Wood, fig. 1258, and our Plate CIX., Fig. 11) — 



Measures 5 or 6 lines in expanse ; fore wings, with the fringe of all the wings shining, golden-copper ; hind 



wings blackish-purple ; head red. Taken in Devonshire in June. 



f Synonymes. — Tinea viridella, HUbner? 

 Tinea scabiosella, Stephens.* 



Species 6. — Adela viridella '' — (Fabricius, &c. ; "Wood, fig. 1261, and our Plate CIX., Fig. 12) — 

 Expands 6 or 7 lines ; fore wings golden-green, and very glossy ; hind wings purple-brown, with golden-green 

 fringe ; head black, the female with the forehead reddish. Very common in hedges and woods in May. 



•1 Synonyme. — Tinea sphingiella, Hiibner. 



Species 7- — Adela Frischella — (Linnaus ; Curtis, pi. 463 ; Wood, fig. 1262, and our Plate CIX., Fig. 

 1.3) — Expands from 8 to 10 lines ; fore wings shining golden-brown, with a purplish tinge on the costa and 

 fringe, and an indistinct ovate paler spot towards the apex, dotted with black ; the antennse are rather longer in 

 the males than in the females, and silvery or white, with the base brown ; hind wings yellowish-crimson ; fringe 

 brown, with the base golden. Taken in May and July in Kent, Dorsetshire, and other parts of the south of 

 England. 



B. Species with the wings destitute of metallic gloss : — 

 Species 8. — Adela Swammerdamella — (Linneeus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1263, and our Plate CIX., Fig. 14) 

 — Expands 9 or 10 lines ; fore wings livid-flavescent and immaculated ; hind ones rather darker : antenns 

 very long and whitish. Taken in ]May and June in woods, flying in swarms up and down like gnats. 



Species 9. — Adela Panzerella — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1264, and our Plate CIX., Fig. 15) — 

 Expands 7i lines ; fore wings pale ochre-yellow, very delicately reticulated with brown, the strijE scarcely 

 visible to the naked eye ; the head fidvous ; antenna white. Beginning of June, in chalky districts. 



Species 10. — Adela Robertella "■ — (Linnasus; Wood, fig. 1265, and our Plate CIX., Fig. 16) — 

 Expands 8 lines ; fore wings pale brownish and immaculate ; hind ones ashy-brown ; antennfe white, with the 

 base yellowish. Beginning of June, in chalky places near Hertford and Cottingham, Yorkshire. 



■■ Synonyme. — Alucita Pilella, Fabricius ; Hiibner ; Haworth. 



• Mr. Curtis gives the name of A. scabiosella to this species, and states that Mr. Dale possesses a species new to Britain, which he thinks 

 will prove to be the A. cuprclla, Fabiicius, whose description is, however, too short to permit this to be determined. The Phalnsna Tinea 

 ReaumurcUa, of Linnajus, (Wood, fig. 1259), is suggested by I\Ir. Stephens to be the male of this species. It measures about 5 lines in 

 expanse ; aud has the fore wings golden green and shining, and the hind ones dark purple, with golden green fringe, mth the male antennae not 

 twice the length of the wings. Mr. Curtis, on the contrary, thinks Reaumurella is the female of A. viridella. 



