206 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 9. — Edebesa clematella ° — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1303, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 16) — 

 Expands .') or 6 lines ; fore wings snow-white, glossy, with a short black streak at the base ; an oblique, very 

 angulated, blackish fascia, and one or two black dots at the apex of the wings ; hind wings ashy. Variable in 

 the extent of the black markings as well as the ground-colour of the fore wings. The caterpillar feeds on the 

 clematis, and the moth appears in July. Darenth, Ripley, &c. 



^ Synonymes. — Tinea arcelJa^ Fabricius? 



Tinea repandella, HUbner ? 



Species 10. — Ederesa ossea — (Haworth ; Wood, fig. 1304, 1306?) — Expands about 5 lines; fore wings 

 cream-coloured, shining with a silvery gloss, with an abbreviated streak at the base, and an oblique, very 

 slender, and very short one on the inner margin, of a luteous colour ; fringe dirty-yellowish ; hind wings leaden- 

 brown and glossy ; fringe of the same colour ; the streaks are sometimes almost obsolete. Taken in woods, in 

 .June and July. 



Species 11. — Ederesa ocellea — (Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1305, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 18) — Expands 4i 

 lines ; fore wings shining, bone-white or cream-coloured, slightly silvery, sprinkled with ochreous-white ; the 

 apex with a lutescent dot, surrounded by a white circle and a lutescent outer one ; hind wings fuscous. Darenth 

 Wood, June ; very rare. 



ARGYROSETIA, Stephens. 

 These insects are closely allied to the preceding, having slender drooping ])alpi, not bent backwards, with 

 the terminal joint not longer than the others ; long, narrow-lanceolate, convoluted wings, and slender antennae ; 

 but the fore- wings are adorned with metallic fascite, resembling letters, and the fringe of the fore wings is very 

 long next the anal angle. 



Species 1. — Argyrosetia Gosdartella'i — (Linnaus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1307, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 19) 

 — Expands 5 or 6 lines ; fore wings silvery-white, with broad golden-red fasciae, resembling the letters lYT, 

 with a silvery dot at the tip ; hind wings leaden ; the golden marks of the fore wings are sometimes difiiised 

 almost over the entire surface. Taken in birch- woods about the end of June. 



^ Synonyme. — Phalcsna semiargentella, Donov. 2, pi. 65, 6gs, '2, 3. 



Species 2. — Argyrosetia semifasciella — (Haworth ; Wood, fig. 1308, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 20) — 

 Expands about 6 lines ; fore wings silvery, with three pale-golden abbreviated fascise on the inner margin ; the 

 first very oblique from the middle of the base nearly to the middle of the inner margin, the second in the middle 

 obliquely directed towards the apex, and the third a mere dot at the anal angle. Variable in the extent of the 

 fascias. In woods, about the end of June ; beaten from the sallow by Mr. Bentley. 



Species 3. — Argyrosetia brockella ' — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1309, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 21) — 



Expands 5 or 6 lines j fore wings silvery, with golden burnished-red fasciae, forming the letters IW, with a 



silver dot at the apex ; hind wings leaden, with golden-brown fringe ; head and thorax white. In woods, at 



the end of June. 



' Synonyme. — Tinea /-fF-eWa, Hawortli. 



Species 4. — Argyrosetia literella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1310, and our Plate CXI., Fig. 22) — 

 Expands about 5^ lines ; fore wings silvery, with a golden gloss, and with golden fascia not reaching the costa, 

 formed like the letters 1, a short-tailed y, and the Greek H ; hind wings leaden, with golden-brown fringe ; head 

 and thorax fulvescent. Rare ; taken in woods, in June. 



