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BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 22. — Microsetia violacella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1364, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 51) 

 Expands 3 lines ; fore wings violaceous, black ; head brick-red, with a white streak at the base of the antennee. 

 Taken in gardens in June. 



Species 23. — Microsetia pygm^ella — (Haworth, &c.; Wood, fig. 1365, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 52) — 

 Expands 1^ to 2i lines ; fore wings pale golden, with the apical margin obsoletely purple ; head red or brick- 

 red, or bufi\ Taken in hedges near London, Sec, in June. 



Species 24. — Microsetia sericiella — (Haworth, &c.; Wood, fig. 1366, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 53) — 

 Expands 3i to 3^ lines : fore wings silvery brown and very glossy and silken, with two small nearly triangular 

 pale whitisli dots, visible in certain lights, one before and another in the middle of the inner margin. 

 Common in hedges and woods at the end of May. 



Species 25. — Microsetia adrofasciella — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1367, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 54) — 

 Extends 4^ lines ; fore wings black brown, with a golden fascia before and another behind the middle ; hind 

 wings brown, head golden-brass. Taken at Darenth Wood in June by Mr. Stephens. 



Species 26. — Microsetia Gliechella — (Fabricius, &c.; Wood, fig. 1368, and our Plate CXII., Fig. 55) 

 Expands 3|- lines ; fore wings black, shining, with a bright silvery fascia in the middle, and two subapical 

 silvery spots on the opposite margins ; hind wings ashy. Taken in the Kentish woods in June, but very rare. 



Species 27. — Microsetia Pfeifferella m — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1369 ; and our Plate CXII., Fig. 56) 

 — Expands 4^ lines ; fore wings coppery-golden, with two large obliquely-opposed very splendid golden spots 

 (often confluent into a somewhat arched anterior fascia), and two similar ones, but more distinct, larger, and 

 triangular, also obliquely opposed to each other, beyond the middle, namely, one on the costa and the other on 

 the inner margin ; hind wings brownish. Taken in the Kentish woods at the end of May, but very rare. 



«" Synonyme — Tinea i-guttella, Haworth, &c. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE CXIII. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 3. 



Fig. 4. 



Fig. 5. 



Pig. 6. 

 Fig. 7. 

 Fig. 8. 

 Fig. 9. 

 Fig. 10. 

 Fig. 11. 

 Fig. 12. 

 Fig. 13. 

 Fig. 14. 

 Fig. 15. 

 Fig. 16. 

 Fig. 17. 

 Fig. 18. 

 Fig. 19. 

 Fig. 20. 

 Fig. 21. 

 Fig. 22. 

 Fig. 23. 



Glj-phipteryx Linnaeella (the Linnasan). 

 Glyphipteryx Roesella (the Roeselian). 

 Glyphipteryx Zinckella (the Zinckian). 

 Glyphipteryx Schaefferella (the SchaEfFerian). 

 Glyphipteryx bimaculella (the orange blotched 



black). 

 Glyphipteryx eximia (the nonpareil). 

 Glyphipteryx metallella (the metallic). 

 Glyphipteryx subcuprella (the coppery). 

 Glyphipteryx auroguttella (the gold dotted). 

 Glyphipteryx variella (the variable). 

 Glyphipteryx terminella {Dale). 

 Pancalia Leuwenhoekella (the Leuwenhoekian). 

 Pancalia Latreillella (the Latreillian). 

 Pancalia Woodiella (the Woodian). 

 Pancalia fusco-renea (the brown brassy). 

 Pancalia fusco-cuprea (the brown copper). 

 Pancalia Merianella (the Mcrianian). 

 C.allisto guttea (the white spotted brown). 

 Callisto Fyeslella (the Fuesslian). 

 Callisto fusco-cuprella (the brown copper). 

 Callisto fusco-viridella (the brown green). 

 Harfagiis cinctella (the silvcr-barrcd sable). 

 Harfagus albistrigcUa (the white striped sable). 



Insects. — Fig. 24. Astyages giandipennis (the great raven feather). 



,t Fig. 25. Astyages cylindrella (the buff-blotched slender). 



,, Fig. 26. Astyages coracipennella (the small raven feather). 



,, Fig. 27. Astyages serratella (the notched horn). 



,, Fig. 28. Astyages obscurella (the brown feather). 



,, Fig. 29. Astyages Gryphipennella (the vulture feather). 



,, Fig. 30. Astyages lutarea (the shining clay). 



,, Fig. 31. Astyages ochroleucella (the pale shining clay). 



,, Fig. 32. Astyages nigricella (the black fringed clay). 



,, Fig. 33. Astyages flavicaput (the yellow-headed black). 



,, Fig. 34. Chrysocorys angustipennella (the narrow-winged). 



,, Fig. 35. Metallosetia Spissicornis (the thick-horned green). 

 Fig. 36. Metallosetia Trifolii (the Trefoil). 



,, Fig. 37. Metallosetia brevicornis (the short-horned). 



,, Fig. 38. Porrectaria Anatipennella (the goose feather). 



,, Fig. 39. Porrectaria Otidipennella (the bustard feather). 



„ Fig. 40. Porrectaria Anscripennella (the duck feather). 



,, Fig. 41. Porrectaria Struthionipennella (the ostrich feather). 



,, Fig. 42. Porrectaria ornatipennella (the silver-streaked hook 

 tip). 



„ Fig. 43. Porrectaria Ochrea (the silver-streaked). 

 The insects figured in this plate, with the exception of 3, 5, 13, 14, 

 15, 27, 30, 32, 35, 39, 40,41, from Wood's Index and other sources, 

 are from the cabinet of Mr. Bentlev. 



