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l)lack, witli two large dark patches on the costa, and a third, still larger, on the inner margin, forming 

 together a triangle, the latter is more oblique, and extends considerably into the disc, and is streaked with black ; 

 hind wings brown, with a purple tinge. Wanstead Flats, New Forest, Birch Wood, &c., but very rare ; in 

 July, the females resting on the Aspen-trunks, round which the males fly at dusk. 



" Synonyme. — Nociua JBoleti, Fabricius. 



ACROLEPIA, Curtis. 

 These insects have considerably the habit of some of the narrower-winged Tortricidaa, but Mr. Curtis considers 

 them nearest to the restricted genus Tinea, from which they are distinguished by the smooth scaly head ; the 

 labial palpi are slender and recurved in front of the face, the spiral tongue long, the maxillary palpi distinct ; 

 the fore wings much deflexed in repose, elongate sublinear, with the apical margin rounded. 



Species 1. — Acrolepia betuletella — (Curtis, Brit. Ent., ])1. 679) — Expands 6i lines ; fore wings oehre- 

 brown, slightly clouded and sparingly freckled with black and white dots ; costa with a few indistinct pale dots, 

 inner margin with a large cream-coloured spot in the middle, edged with black, and bearing a dark line, and with 

 several minute cream-coloured dots, edged with black. Taken on birch trees in Castle Eden Dene, Cumberland, 

 at the beginning of August. 



Species 2. — Acrolepia autumnitella — (Curtis) — Fore wings mottled with brown, a large semi-ovate 

 blackish spot at the middle of the costa, an elongated one towards the posterior margin, and numerous black dots 

 and white scales on the disc, a trigonate cream-coloured spot in the middle of the inner margin, and one or two 

 lines of the same towards the base ; hind wings brown, palest at the base. Taken at Glanville's Wootton, 

 Dorsetshire, in the autumn. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE CXIX. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Lepidocera Birdella (Mr. Bird's). 



,, Fig. 2. Lepidocera mediopcctinella (the middle feathered) 



,, Fig. 3. Lepidocera tauiella (the little bull). 



Fig. 4. Lepidocera chenopodiella (the spotted bull). 



,, Fig. 5. Incurvaria ruasculclla (the feathered diamond-back). 



,, Fig. 6. Incurvaria pectinella (the feathered twin spot). 



,, Fig. 7. Incurvaria Oehlmanniella (Oehlmanii's). 



,, Fig. 8. Incurvaria spuria (the spurious treble-spot). 

 ,, Fig. 9. Incurvaria tripunctdla (the trebled-spotted). 



„ Fig, 10. Incurvaria rufimitrella. 



,, Fig. II. Amaurosetia oppositella (the two-spotted brown). 



Insects. — Fisf. 12. Amaurosetia quadripunctella (the double-spotted 

 brown), 

 ,, Fig. 13. Amaurosetia minutella (the double gold-spotted). 



,, Fig. 14. Amaurosetia cerusella (the triple-spotted white). 



,, Fig. 15. Amaurosetia Albinella (Albin's). 

 ,, Fig. 16. Amaurosetia Megerlclla (Megerle*s), 

 „ Fig. 17. Amaurosetia albifrontella (the white fronted). 



Plant. — Fig. 18. Fumavia officinalis (common Fumitory). 



The whole of the insects in this plate are from the cabinet of Mr. 

 Bentley, with the exception of Nos. 4, 6, 8, 16, and 17. 



LEPIDOCERA, Stephens. 

 The very densely squamose palpi and male antennas (except the tips of the latter) at once distinguish this 

 genus, the spiral tongue is very short, the head tufted in front, the fore wings very squamose, nearly linear and 

 truncated at the extremity, and the body is rather long and depressed. The species are small. 



Species 1. — Lepidocera birdeila — (Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 344 ; Wood, fig. 1566 ; and our Plate CXIX., 

 Fig. 1 ) — Expands 4-^ to 6^ lines ; fore wings dull reddish-ochre, with three fasci^3B, formed of minute black 

 atoms, the middle one broadest ; hind wings coppery-brown, paler at the base. Liverpool, Hertford, and South 

 Lambeth, but very rare, July. 



