204 BRITISH MOTHS 



roundish patch at the apex. Tlie species are much smaller than the Yponomeutas, and approach those of the 

 genus Anacampsis. 



Species 1. — Telea CnRTiSELLA'' — (Donovan, 2, pi. 65, fig. 4, &c. ; "Wood, fig. 1287, and our Plate CXI., 

 Fig. 1) — Expands 8 lines; fore wings snow-white, the base irrorated with brown ; the costa, from the base to 

 the middle, black, where it is dilated into an abbreviated trigonate fascia ; apical margin snow-white, with some 

 confluent black dots ; hind wings leaden-brown ; variable in the depth of its colours. Taken in hedges, in 



June and July. 



Synonyme Tinea ctEnobitella, Hiibner. 



Species 2. — Telea ambiguella — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1288, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 2) — Expands 

 6 or 7 lines ; fore wings yellowish, with a complete broad, dark, central fascia ; dilated towards the costa ; 

 obscurely dotted with brown ; hind wings brownish-white. Very rare ; taken in woods, in July. 



Species 3. — Telea crat^gella — (Linnseus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1289, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 3) — 

 Expands from 5 to 7 lines ; fore wings whitish, with ashy or brownish clouds, and with two rather broad 

 dusky fasciae running across the wings, and a third abbreviated at the apex ; hind wings ashy-grey. The 

 caterpillar feeds on the whitethorn and pear. Taken in the New Forest and elsewhere, in July. 



Species 4. — -Telea leucatella — (LinuEeus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1290, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 4) — 

 Expands 6 or 7 lines ; fore wings blackish, with two fascias ; the anterior broad, white, and semi-orbicular ; 

 the hinder narrower and more ashy-coloured, but minutely dotted with black ; the disc with three or four 

 black dots ; palpi elongate, and divaricating ; antennse annulated with white. The caterpillar feeds on 

 fruit-trees. The moth is common in gardens in June. 



Species 5. — Telea comptella '' — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1291, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 5) — 

 Expands 6 or 7 lines ; fore wings narrow, ashy, obscurely atomose, and with a subocellated rosy-copper 

 spot close to the apex, with a brown iris ; hind wings brownish. Taken in hedges and woods, in June. 



•^ Synonyme. — PhalcBna Tinea apiella^ Donovan, 2, pi. 57, fig. 3. 



Species 6. — Telea lutarell a— (Hiibner? Haworth; Wood, fig. 1292, and om- Plate CXI., Fig. 6) — 

 Expands from 5 to 7 lines ; fore wings ashy-clay-coloured, with darker, almost obsolete dots, and with a small 

 whitish streak close to the apex of the wing ; hind wings pale-brown ; fringe coppery in certain lights. Taken 

 in woods and gardens about the end of June, and not uncommon. 



Species 7. — Telea subfasciella — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1293, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 7) — Expands 

 5 or 5^ lines ; fore wings " ashy-brown, with darker atoms ; the apex with a dusky cloud, and the disc 

 with faint fuscous fascia ; head pale ; thorax fuscous." Darenth Wood, in June. 



Species 8.— Telea c^siella— (Hiibner; Haworth; Wood, fig. 1294, and our Plate CXI, Fig. 8)— 

 Expands 5 or 6 lines ; fore wings ashy-brown, with dusky atoms ; the apical margin and fringe purple ; hind 

 wings whitish, brownish behind ; head and thorax ashy-white. Common in hedges and woods. 



EDERESA, Curtis. ISMENE, Stephens, (Illustr.) 

 The head has a dense tuft on the crown ; the antenna are long and slender ; the palpi more or less 

 drooping, divaricating, and slender, of moderate length, with the third joint not thinner than the preceding ; 

 the wings long and narrow, almost cylindric in repose, the fore ones being elliptic-hmceolate, with the 



