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GLYPHIPTERYX, Hubner; Curtis; Stephens (111.). (ECOPHORA, Stephens (Catal.). 

 These splendid insects have the palpi drooping and diverging outwards, longer than the head, and very- 

 slender; the antennee slender, and as long as the wings; the head clothed with imbricated scales, and the 

 fore wings somewhat deflexed when at rest, linear-lanceolate, generally marked with embossed metallic patches 

 on a fulvous or yellow ground, and having the apical margin ill defined, in consequence of the long scales arising 

 from the extremity of the disc, which become confused with the fringe. The larvae are subcutaneous. 



Species 1. — Glyphipteryx linn^ella — (Clerck; Linnseus, &c. ; Curtis, pi. 152; Wood, fig. 1370 ; and 

 our Plate CXIII., Fig. 1) — Expands 4^ — 6 lines ; fore wings bright fulvous, with a black patch at the base, 

 three silvery spots on the disc in a triangle, a streak on the costa, and a minute metallic dot at the base, and 

 deep black fringe ; tip of antennas white. Taken on the trunks of willows, lime-trees, &c., round London, 

 about the end of July. 



Species 2. — Glyphipteryx Roesella — (Linna9us, &c. ; "Wood, fig. 1371, and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 2) 

 — Expands 5 lines ; fore wings fulvous, with an oblong black basal patch, followed by a somewhat oblique 

 transverse black fascia ; the costal, apical, and inner margins also black, which colour in certain lights is stronorly 

 glossed with silver, and on the disc of the wings are nine raised silvery dots. Very rare in woods, in July. The 

 caterpillar is 14-footed, yellow, with a testaceous head, and resides within the leaves of the apple. 



Species 3. — Glyphipteryx Zinckella — (Hubner, Stephens; Wood, fig. 1372, and our Plate CXIII., 

 Fig. 3) — Expands 4g to 5 lines ; fore wings fulvous, with two transverse, nearly straight, silvery- white, slender 

 fascije, and a longitudinal line of the same at the apex, all with narrow metallic black edges ; the disc of each 

 wing with three silvery dots, and the base, costa, and apical margin black. Taken in Devonshire in June. 



Species 4. — Glyphipteryx Schjefperella — (Linnaeus, &c.; Donovan, v., Plate 175; Wood, Fig. 1373, 

 and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 4) — Expands 3^ to 4| lines ; fore wings rich fulvous, with the base, costal streak, 

 apical margin, and transverse fascia before the middle, from which branch two longitudinal streaks, all black, 

 changing according to the light to burnished silver ; the disc also with three silver dots ; hind wiiio-s brown. 

 Taken on Tanacetum vulgare about the beginning of June. 



Species 5. — Glyphipteryx bimaculella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1374 ; and our Plate CXIII. 

 Fig. 5)— Expands 5 lines ; fore wings narrow, black, with two large suboval orange patches on the disc, claced 

 longitudinally ; the first towards the base, extending nearly to tlie inner margin, the second nearer the apex 

 and further apart from the margin ; hind wings black. Devonshire ; rare. 



Species 6. —Glyphipteryx eximia — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1375 ; and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 6) 

 —Expands 5 lines ; fore wings splendidly varied witli orange, gold, copper, black, and violet ; at the base is a 

 very broad changeable fascia, edged with black, followed by a triangular orange fascia, with a slender black 

 margin and a brilliantly changeable band ; the apical portion of the wing black, with a slender marginal 

 changeable streak. Verj rare ; near London and Ripley, in July. 



Species 7-— Glyphipteryx metallella — (Wien. Verz. ? Steph. ; Wood, fig. 1376; and our Plate 

 CXIII., Fig. 7)— Expands 5 or 6 lines ; entirely coppery-brownj; fringe brown. Taken near Ripley, in July, 

 by Mr. Stephens. 



