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brown, clay-coloured, or whitish, varied and spotted with black or brown, and with a short black streak at the 

 base of the inner margin, and a black dot near the apex. Common in woods, &c., in the autumn. 

 ' Synonyme. — Vpsolophus 5-puTictatus, lutosus and flaviciliatus, Haworth, (varieties). 



Species 5. — CniETocHiLUS sylvellus ' — (Hiibner ; Steph.; "Wood, fig. 1541 ; and our Plate CXVII., 

 ■p\a. 19) — Expands 8^ to 9 lines ; fore wings golden-brown, shining, with two obUque rusty fasciae in the 

 middle ; the first nearly straight, and the second rather curved ; hind wings ashy-gray. In woods, &c., in 

 September. 



' Sthohyhe. — yptolophus bifasciatus, HawortL. 



Species 6. — Ch^etochilus rufimetrelltjs — (Hiibner, &c. ; "Wood, fig. 1542 ; and our Plate CXVII., 

 Fitr. 20) — Expands 8 to 9 lines ; fore wings blackish, more or less obsoletely varied with brown clouds ; hind 

 wings ashy-brown, forehead red. Near London, in the autumn. 



Species 7- — Ch:.etochiltis maurelltjs — (Wien. "Verz., &c. ; "Wood, fig. 1543, and our Plate CX"VII., Fig. 

 21) — Expands 8 to 9 lines; fore wings deep black, varying to dusky, with a bluish or purplish gloss, and 

 sometimes with the costa broadly but irregularly paler brownish ; hind wings dusky and shining. Round 

 London, in the autumn. 



Species 8. — Ch^tochilus vittellus — (Linn. ; (Faun. Suec.,) &c.; Wood, fig. 1544 ; and our Plate 

 CX'VIL, Fig. 22) — Expands 7 to 8^ lines ; fore wings ashy, more or less clouded, with an irregular black 

 streak along the inner margin (sometimes nearly half the width of the wing), and some obscure black dots on 

 the apical margin ; hind wings ashy-brown, and glossy. Common in woods, on trunks of trees, and in hedges, 

 in the autumn. 



Species 9. — Ch.etochilus sequelltts — (Ijinnasus, &c. ; Steph. 111., pi. 40, fig. 2 ; "Wood, fig. 1545 ; and 

 our Plate CXVII., Fig. 23) — Expands 8i to 10 lines ; fore wings white or whitish, with numerous short, 

 black, irregular streaks and dots on the costa, some being furcate, and others connected together on the disc, and 

 with several large black patches on tlie inner margin, which are united into a continuous, irregular streak ; hind 

 wings pale ashy-brown. Taken in July and August, at Westerham and Darenth, and near Ripley. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE CXVIII. 



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1. Cerostoma porrectella (the gray streak). 



2. Cerostoma anaulatella (the annulateJ). 



3. Cerostoma maculipennis (the spotted winged). 



4. Cerostoma Xylostella (the honeysuckle). 



5. Tinea tapetzella (the black-cloaked wooUeo). 



6. Tinea semifulvclla (the fulvous-tip). 



7. Tinea ustella (the "white-backed black). 



8. Tinea fiavicostella. 



9. Tinea fuscipiinctella (tht* brown-dotted woollen). 

 Fig. 10. Tinea pellionella (the single-spotted woollen). 

 Fig. 11. Tinea ni^punctella (the luauy-sputted jellow). 

 Fig. 12. Tiuca albipunctclla (the white-speckled black). 

 Fig. 13. Tir.ea flavesceutella (the triple-spotted buff). 



Insects. — Fig. 14. Tinea lappella (the triple-spotted yellow), 

 ,j Fig. 15. Tinea sulphurella (the sulphur). 

 „ Fig. 16. Tinea destructor (the destructive). 

 „ Fig. 17. Tinea cloacella (the dark-mottled woollen). 

 „ Fig. 18. Tinea granella (the mottled woollen). 

 „ Fig. 19. Tinea parasitella (the light-brindled woollen). 



„ Fig. 20. Tinea corticella (tlie bark). 

 ,, Fig. 21- Euplocamus mediellus (the agaric). 



Plant. — Fig. 22. Cucubalus Baccifer (Berry-bearing Campion). 



The insects figured in this plate are from the Cabiuet of Mr. 

 Bentley* with the exception of Albipunctella, Sulphurella, and Cortl- 

 cella, from Wood. 



CEROSTOMA, Latreille. 

 These insects are nearly allied to the preceding, especially in the structure of the palpi, but differ from them 

 in the curious habit of sitting with the antenna3 porrected forwards, like some of the Phrj'ganeidre ; the fore 



