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Species 12. — Microsetia trimaculella — (Haworth, &c.; Wood, fig. 1354, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 41) 

 — Expands 2| lines ; fore wings black, with a very broad, lutescent, emarginate streak extending from the base 

 nearly to the middle, and two nearly confluent, yellowish marginal blotches on the opposite margins, near the 

 extremity of the wings : hind wings blackish. Taken in gardens, and on the trunks of poplars, at the beginning 

 of July, but rare. 



Species 13. — Microsetia sttb-bimaculella — (Haworth, &c.; Wood, fig. 1355, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 

 42)^ — Expands 2^ lines; fore wings black, with the base whitish, and two oblique, opposed, nearly confluent 

 silvery spots, one on the middle of the inner margin, and the other more anteriorly on the costa ; hind wings 

 leaden-black, head fulvous or white. Taken in hedges or gardens at the beginning of July. 



Species 14. — Microsetia nigrociliella — (Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1356, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 43) — 

 Expands 2i lines ; fore wings black, with two slightly silvery marginal spots, one about the middle of the costa, 

 and the other towards the anal angle ; fringe dusky black, hind wings dusky. Taken near London in July. 



Species 15. — Microsetia unipasciella — (Haworth, &c.; Wood, fig. 1357, find our Plate CXII., Fig. 44) 

 — Expands 3i lines ; fore wings pale silken brown, with a straight, almost central, silvery fascia ; hind wings 

 brown, with very long pale brown fringe. Taken in the Kentish woods in June, but very rare. 



Species 16. — Microsetia mediopasciella — (Haworth, &c.; Wood, fig. 1358, and our Plate, CXII. Fig. 

 45) — Expands 21 lines, very similar to the last, with black fore wings and a silvery fascia nearer the centre, and 

 slightly interrupted ; hind wings broad and leaden-black. Taken in June near London, &c. 



Species 17- — Microsetia posticella"" — (Haworth, &c.; Wood, fig. 1359, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 46) — 

 Expands 2i lines ; fore wings silken, silvery brown, with a golden-silvery fascia from the costa nearly to the 

 anal angle, beyond which in certain lights the wings are purplish brown ; hind wings very pale brown. Taken 



near London, &c., in July. 



' Synonyme. — Tinea Hubnerella^ HUbner. 



Species 18. — Microsetia aurella — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1360, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 47) — 

 Expands \\ to 2- lines; fore wings golden-brown, and very brilliant, with a silvery or golden-silvery fascia 

 beyond the middle, the space beyond being black, with a purple, coppery, or violet tinge. Common in hedges 

 in -June. 



Species 19. — Microsetia floslactella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1361, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 48) 

 — Expands 3 lines ; fore wings pale flavescent, with a large, irregular, central fascia-like mark, and another 

 somewhat rounded near the tip, of violet-black, extending from the costa to the inner margin : fringe yellowish- 

 white : hind wings leaden-brown, silky, with very long leaden fringe. The central fascia is sometimes obsolete. 

 Taken in hedges, near woods, at the end of May. 



Species 20. — Microsetia atricapitella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1362, and our Plate CXII., 

 Fig. 49) — E,xpands 2~ lines ; fore wings golden, with the costa broadly purplish in certain lights, and the apex 

 also broadly purple : head black, with a white streak at the base of the antennae. Taken in hedges at the 

 beginning of June. 



Species 21. — Microsetia ruficapitella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1363, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 

 50) — Expands 2^ lines. Resembles the preceding in the colours of its wings, but has not any purple gloss on 

 the costa, and the head is red, or brick-red. Taken near London, in June. 



