20S BRITISH MOTHS 



silvery spots, strongly friuged on the inner margin and apex, the hind wings are also very narrow, but with 

 very long fringe. The caterpillars have 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal, and 2 anal feet. 



Species 1. — Argyromiges Blancardella — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1314, and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig. 1) — Expands 3| — 4 lines ; fore wings golden and shining, with a silver longitudinal line at the base united 

 with the silvery margin of the thorax, four dots on the costa and three on the inner margin, all beyond the 

 middle and silvery, the tip with a tawny streak, hind wings silvery. Taken in woods about the end of Hay. 



Species 2. — Argyromiges schrebrella — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1315 ; and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig. 2) — Expands 3 lines ; fore wings golden ; tlie base, two fascia in the middle, and two dots on the opposite 

 margins near the apex, of glossy silver ; hind wings silvery-ashy. Rare ; hedges and woods in May. 



Species 3. — Argyromiges cydoniella — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1316; and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig. 3) — Expands 3 lines ; fore wings golden, with a line at the base, and eight dots placed in pairs on the 

 opposite margins, all of pure white ; hind wings pale ashy. Our Pyrus cydonia, in gardens, &c., in Slay. 



Species 4. — Argyromiges klemannella — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1317; and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig 4) — Expands 3^ lines ; fore wings shining golden, with two entire silver streaks towards the base, and two 

 beyond the middle, interrupted in the middle, and nearly confluent ; the tip of the wing with a black dot. In 

 woods and hedges in May. 



Species 5. — Argyromiges mespilella — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1318; and our Plate CXII., Fig. 5) 

 — Expands 4 — 4i lines ; fore wings fulvous-golden, with a slender silver line at the middle of the base, and seven 

 marginal suboblique comma-like marks placed in pairs on the opposite margins (the seventh excepted), and aU 

 silvery ; the inner margin silvery, as far as the middle ; the opposite silver spots are sometimes confluent. In 

 hedges, about the end of May. 



Species 6. — Argyromiges rajella — (Linnaus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1319; and our Plate CXII., Fig. 6) — 

 Expands 3 — 3| lines ; fore wings golden-brown, with three pairs of silvery spots on the opposite margins, the 

 middle ones often confluent, forming a transverse fascia ; the apex of the wing with a dusky cloud. Common in 

 gardens in May. 



Species 7- — Argyromiges tristrigella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1320 ; and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig. 7) — Expands 3h lines ; head, antennse, and palpi golden-silver ; fore wings tawny-gold, with a straight 

 fascia before, a second in the middle, and a third beyond the middle, all equidistant and golden-silvery ; hind 

 wings leaden-brown. In woods at the end of May. 



Species 8. — Argyromiges trifasciella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1321 ; and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig. 8) — Expands 3f lines ; head tawny, with a snow-white forehead ; fore wings dark fulvous, with three 

 brown equidistant nearly straight fascicB, brown outwardly, whitish-gold, the third furcate near the anal angle ; 

 the tip of the wing with a brown oblong spot ; hind wings lea den- brown. Rare ; in woods in May. 



Species 9. — Argyromiges harrisella — (Linnreus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1322; and our Plate CXII., Fig. 9) 

 — Expands 3^ — 5 lines ; fore wings golden-silvery, variegated, with the tip obtuse, and having a subocellated 

 brownish spot with a central black dot ; hind wings ashy-white. Common in May and June, in woods. 



