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PHYCITA, Curtis. PHYCIS, Fabricius. 

 The labial palpi are as long as the head, and recurved in front of the face ; the terminal joint being slender, 

 elongate-ovate, and much shorter than the preceding ; the maxillary palpi are scarcely visible ; the antenna are 

 long and setaceous, with the second and several following joints producing a large oval mass of scales in the 

 males of some species ; the body is rather robust, and the fore wings are convoluted in repose ; the anterior 

 elongate-trigonate, with the apical margin rather rounded ; the disc often marked with two transverse 

 pale streaks. 



Species 1. — Phycita nebdlella — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1451 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 4) — 

 Expands 9 or 10 lines ; fore wings glaucous- white, with two or three short black strokes before the middle, 

 arranged transversely, and two others beyond the middle towards the costa, with an obscure dusky streak beyond 

 the latter, and an apical row of small blackish dots. Taken at Darenth, and in Epping Forest, in June. 



Species 2. — Phycita bin^vella — (Germar; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1452; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 5) — 

 Expands 9 lines ; fore wings narrow, and more rounded at the tip than in the last species, ashy-bufi", with 

 two rather elongate black dots before, and two minute ones beyond the middle, and with an incurved pale 

 streak beyond the latter ; hind wings ashy-gray. New Forest, in July. 



Species 3. — Phycita dilutella — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1453 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 6) — 

 Expands 9 lines ; fore wings narrow, and ashy-coloured, partly irrorated with brown scales, and with two 

 reddish strigse, partially edged with white, between which is a duplicated black spot, and a row of black dots on 

 tlie apical margin ; hind wings brown. Taken in woods, in June and July. 



Species 4. — Phycita elutella — (Hiibner, &c, ; Wood, fig. 1454 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 7) — 

 Expands 8 to 8|- lines ; fore wings narrow, pale-ashy, pulverose, with dusky atoms, with two very indistinct 

 palish strigsB, the first rather dusky on the side near the base, and the outer one dusky within ; hind wings 

 whitish. Hedges near woods, in June. 



Species 5. — Phycita rufa — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1455 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 8) — Expands 

 72 to 8 Unes ; fore wings narrow, very pale red, with two very faint paler transverse strigae, the outer one bent 

 outwardly ; hind wings whitish-ash. Taken in gardens and woods, in July and August. 



Species 6. — Phycita angitstella — (Hiibner ; Wood, fig. 1456 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 9) — Expands 

 8 to 8i lines ; fore wings narrow, whitish, rather clouded with ashy, with two very fine brown streaks before, 

 and another darker and much bent beyond the middle, with a dark spot near the former, and four others in a 

 square towards the latter ; apical margin with a row of small black dots ; hind wings white. Gardens and 

 skirts of woods, in June. 



Species 7.— Phycita SEMIRUFA — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1457; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 10) — 

 Expands 8 to 9 lines ; fore wings narrow, ashy, slightly atomose, with two almost obsolete darker striga, 

 between which is a red patch in the middle of the inner margin ; hind wings ashy- white. Woods and forests, 

 in June. 



Species 8.— Phycita bistriga— (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1458; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 11)— 

 Expands about 9 lines ; fore wings purplish-red, with a whitish transverse striga towards the base, and another 



