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Species 10. — j^rgyromiges cramerella' — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1.323 ; and our Plate CXII., 



Fig. 10) — Expands 3^ — 4 lines; fore wings silvery -white, with three pairs of oblique brown marginal lineolas 



beyond the middle of the wing, and a black subocellated dot at the apex. Common in gardens and hedges about 



the end of Slay. The caterpillar feeds within an oak-leaf, devouring the parencliyma ; the chrysalis working 



its way through the lower surface of the leaf when the perfect insect is ready to burst forth. 



i Synonymes. — Tinea PrunifoHella, l-\i\hner. 

 Phalana Tinea Bonnetella, Linnaeus ? 



Species 11. — Argyromiges hortella •— (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1324 ; and our Plate CXII., Fig. 11) 

 — Expands 4 lines ; fore wings of shining silver, with tliree oblique yellow fascia, the third interrupted ; the 

 apex with a short black line ; hind wings glossy wliite. Taken in woods and gardens, about the end of May. 



1 Synonyms. — Pkal. Tinea CramereUa, Donovan, x. pi. 392, fig. 1 ? but not of other authors. 



Species 12. — Argyromiges sylvella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1325 ; and our Plate CXII., Fig. 12) 

 — Expands 3f lines ; fore wings wliite, with two ashy fascia*, one near the base, and the second rectangular in 

 the middle, both edged with brown ; towards the extremity of the wing is a gray cruciform mark, indistinctly 

 edged with brown, and at the apex is a minute ashy ocellus, with a brown iris and an oblong longitudinal black 

 pupil ; hind wings ashy-whitish. Taken at the end of May, in woods. 



Species 13. — Argyromiges cucdlipennei-la — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1326 ; and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig. 13) — Expands S\ — 4 lines ; head snow-white ; fore wings hoary, with oblique brown streaks placed at equal 

 distances apart, namely, 3 or 4 on the costal and 2 or 3 on the inner margin, the inner ones occasionally confluent ; 

 at the apex is also a short black streak. Woods in May. 



Species 14. — Argyromiges cory'LIfoliella — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1327 ; and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig. 14) — Expands 4 lines ; fore wings red, with a very slender yellowish streak from the base to beyond the 

 middle, followed by two other oblique ones on the opposite margins in the middle, confluent on the disc, forming 

 a Greek y, and occasionally, beyond this, one or two very slender paleHineolae ; hind wings brown. Found in 

 woods, about the end of May. 



Species 15. — Argyromiges ulmifoliella — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1328; and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig. 15) — Expands 3^ — 4 lines ; fore wings red, with darker clouds, and a very slight whitish streak at the 

 base, an angulated but almost obsolete pale streak in the middle, and another at the apex ; hind wings reddish 

 ash. Taken near London, in June. 



Species 16. — Argyromiges alnifoliella — (Hiibner, &c. : Wood, fig. 1329 ; and our Plate CXII., Fig. 16) 

 — Expands 3^ lines ; fore wings dull red, with two slender whitish streaks on the disc, and another at the apex 

 like the figure 8 with the top cut off ; hind wings reddish ash. Taken in woods about the beginning of June. 



Species 17. — Argyromiges obscurella — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1330 ; and our Plate CXII., Fig. 17) — 

 Expands 3^ lines ; fore wings dull testaceous, with some very obsolete whitish streaks beyond the middle, and 

 a few palish dots at the tip of the costa ; the inner margin whitish at the base. Coombe Wood, beginning 

 of June. 



Species 18. — Argyromiges rufipunctella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1331 ; and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig. 18) — Expands 3| lines; fore wings ashy, with two or three equidistant fascias : the first, towards the base, 



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