212 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 3. — Microsetia exiguella — (Fabricius ? "Wood, fig. 1345, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 32) 



Expands 3^ to 4^ lines ; fore wings black, with a transverse central fascia, and a spot near the apex of the costa, 

 and another opposite on the anal angle, all ashy : hind wings and head black. Taken in woods about the 

 beginning of June. 



Species 4. — Microsetia cinereo-punctella — (Haworth, &c.j Wood, fig. 1.346, and our Plate 'CXII. 

 Fig. 33) — Expands 3^ to 4 lines ; fore \vings black, the anterior with an obsolete ashy transverse streak from 

 the costa nearly to the inner margin, and with an ashy dot at the anal angle and another near the apex, both 

 more or less obsolete : head snow-white. Woods, Kent, at the end of May. 



Species 5. — Microsetia Stipella — (Hiibner, &c.; Wood, fig. 1347, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 34) 



Expands 3| lines ; fore wings brown, with three fine large gold spots arranged in a triangle, one on the middle 

 of the inner, and the two others on the costal margin : head white. Taken in woods, in Kent, in May. 



Species 6. — Microsetia gdttell a— (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1348, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 35) — 

 Expands 4 to 4| lines ; head yellow ; fore wings shining, pitchy-black or black, with four snow-white marginal 

 spots arranged in opposite pairs, the two anterior almost confluent, with a fascia preceding, and the two others 

 more remote beyond the middle of the wing : hind wings black. Taken in woods about the beginning of June. 



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Species 7- — Microsetia quadrella — (Fabricius, &c.; Wood, fig. 1349, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 36) — 



Expands 4 lines ; fore wings black, with four silvery white spots placed obliquely in opposition to each other on 

 the margins in pairs, the anterior pair sometimes united by a silvery line ; hind wings brown ; head white. 

 Taken in gardens and woods at the end of May. 



Species 8. — Microsetia sequella — (Haworth &c. ; Wood, fig. 1350, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 37) — 

 Expands 3J to 3^ lines ; fore wings black, with a broad, pure white fascia before the middle, a minute spot in 

 the middle of the inner margin and a large costal dot placed nearer the tip, also with silvery white atoms 

 towards the apical margin ; hind wings brownish. Taken in hedges and woods at the end of May. 



Species 9. — Microsetia pulchella — (Haworth, &c.; Wood, fig. 1351, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 38) — 

 Expands 3-1 lines ; fore wings deep black, with a broad white stripe along the inner margin at the base, a 

 splendid silver straight central fascia united to the stripe, and two silvery oblique spots, one on the costa and 

 one on the inner margin, the former nearer to the apex : hind wings whitish ; head and anal tuft white. 

 Taken in the Kentish woods in June, but rare. 



Species 10. — Microsetia sella — (Stephens, lUustr. ; Wood, fig. 1352, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 39) — 

 Expands 3^ lines ; fore wings deep velvet black, with a broad, incurved, snowy, silvery fascia before the middle, 

 and a rather large triangular spot near the apex of the same hue ; hind wings brown ; head and front of 

 the thorax silvery white. Taken in Scotland, in June. 



Species 11.— Microsetia nigrell a— (Hiibner, &c.; Wood, fig. 1353, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 40)— 

 Expands 3^ lines ; fore wings black or deep black, with two silvery, somewhat oblique, divaricating fascije, one 

 before and the other, occasionally interrupted, beyond the middle : hind wings leaden-brown, shining. Taken 

 in woods, in June. 



