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Species 9.— Astyages ochroleucella — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1399; and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 31) 



Expands 6 lines ; fore wings shining, pale reddish ochreous, immaculate, hind wings brownish ; fringe somewhat 

 lutescent. Darenth Wood, &c., in June. 



Species 10. — Astyages nigricella— (Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1400; and our Plate CXIll., Fig. 32) — 

 Expands 5 to 5^ lines ; fore wings black, shining, immaculate ; hind wings brown ; head whitish. Darenth 

 Wood, Dover, &c., in June. 



Species 11. — Astyages flavilaput — ( Ha worth ; Wood, fig. 1401; and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 33) — 

 Expands 6 lines ; all the wings black, shining, and immaculate ; head yellowish-red ; palpi with the tips 

 yellow. Taken in woody places round London in June. 



CHRYSOCORYS, Curtis. 

 The antennaa are rather short, and thickly squamose and subserrated ; the palpi are rather long, porrected 

 horizontally beyond the head and divaricating, with three joints of nearly equal length, the third slender and 

 acute at the tip ; the fore wings defloxed, long, narrow, lanceolate, and slightly hooked at the tip ; fringe long ; 

 hind legs long, with long spurs. The Caterpillar (if Hiibner's Tinea Festaliella be congenerous as Mr. Curtis 

 considers), is sixteen-footed, tuberculated, and bristly ; the pupa with several series of dorsal spines, and 

 enclosed within an open net-work cocoon. 



Species 1. — Chrysocorys scissella — (Hiibner ? Haworth; Wood, fig. 1402, and our Plate CXIII. , Fig. 

 34) — Expands 51 lines ; fore wings of a pale golden ochre colour ; with the costa, a streak along the middle of 

 the wing, dilated in the middle, another along the inner margin, and the apical margin all dark brown. Taken 

 in hedges, &c., from April to June. 



METALLOSETIA, Stephens, (Encycl. Metrop.). DAMOPHILA, Curtis. 

 The antennae are slender and nearly as long as the wings, the basal joint apparently dilated ; the palpi longer 

 than the head, slightly curved upwards, slender ; the second joint long and linear, and the third short and acute 

 at the tip ; the fore wings long and lanceolate, folded cylindrically in repose ; the fringe very long ; the disc 

 metallic ; the fringe of the hind wings extremely long. The caterpillars form portable cases, in which they 

 reside, as recently discovered by F. Bond, Esq., thus proving the relationship of the genus to the following. 



Species 1. — Metallosetia spissicornis — (Stephens, lUustr., PI. 41, fig. 1 ; Wood, fig. 1403, and our 

 Plate CXIII., Fig. 35) — Expands 5^ lines; fore wings golden or coppery green, shining, and immaculate; the 

 antennae spotted black and white in the middle, the tips white ; hind wings blackish, with a coppery tinge ; fringe 

 pale black. Taken in damp places in July. 



Species 2. — Metallosetia trifolii — (Stephens ; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 391 ; Wood, fig. 1404, and our 

 Plate CXIII., Fig. 36) — Expands 6 or 7 lines ; fore wings shining metallic golden green, with the costa and tips 

 coppery ; hind wings, as well as the fringe, pale black ; antennae with the tips white. Found on the flowers of 

 the Trefoil, in July, in various parts of the South of England. 



Species 3. — Metallosetia brevicornis — (Dale MSS., Plate CXIII., Fig. 37) — Expands 5| lines ; fore 

 wings very narrow, splendid coppery, the apical portion gradually becoming of a brilliant purple ; hind wings 



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