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Species 2. — Lepidocera mediopectinella— (Haworth; Wood, fig. 1567 ; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 2) 

 — Expands 5 to 5 J lines; fore wings dull yellowish, obscurely clouded with brown ; hind wings pale brown ; 

 antennas black, strongly pectinated in the middle. Taken in the Middlesex marshes to the east of London, 

 in June. 



Species 3. — Lepidocera taurella — (HUbner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1568; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 3) — 

 Expands 4^ to 5J lines ; fore wings rather narrow, ashy-brown, and almost destitute of shade, except along the 

 apical margin, which is paler ; hind wings brownish in the male, white in the female, with a black border ; 

 abdomen with a pale ochre subapical fascia ; antennse slightly thickened, with scales on the middle. Rare ; 

 marshy places, about the beginning of July. 



Species 4. — Lepidocera chenopodiella — (Hiibner; Wood, fig. 1569 ; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 4) — 

 Expands 5^ to 6 lines ; fore wings ashy-brown, with darker atoms and obscure irregular confluent, yellowish 

 spots on the disc, placed longitudinally ; hind wings whitish, with the apical margin brown. Taken at Hertford 

 and Barham, but extremely rare. 



INCURVARIA, Haworth. 



These insects have the head densely tufted in front and on the crown ; the antennae of the males are either 

 strongly pectinated or stout and sub-filiform, and those of the female simple ; the labial palpi are rather small 

 and drooping ; the third joint short and very slender, and the maxillary palpi are as long as the labial, and 

 incurved ; the fore wings are very much deflexed in repose, and somewhat lanceolate, of metallic brown colours, 

 and generally with pale spots. 



Species 1. — Inccrvakia mascdlella — (Wien. Verz., &c. ; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 607; Wood, fig. 1570; 

 and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 5) — Expands 5 to 7 lines ; fore wings purplish-brown, speckled with orange and 

 ferruginous scales, a roundbh spot in the middle, and a triangular one (sometimes obsolete) near the extremity, 

 of the inner margin ; male antenuEe thickly pectinated. Taken flying about white-thorn hedges, in May. 



Species 2. — Incttrvaria pectinella" — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1571 ; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 6) — 

 Expands 6 lines ; fore wings tawny-brown, with a whitish obscurely geminated spot before the middle of the 

 inner margin, and another, smaller and more indistinct, towards the anal angle ; hind wings brown ; male 

 antennae coarsely pectinated. Also taken about the end of May, in hedges. 



° Synonyme. — PhalcBua Tinea trigonella, Linnaeus? 



Species 3. — Incurvaria Oehlmannella — (Hiibner; Wood, fig. 1572; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 7) — 

 Expands 6 to 7 lines; fore wings purplish-black, inner margin with two remote pale (whitish or yellowish) 

 spots, and a third near the extremity of the costa ; hind wings shining black ; head tawnv ; male antennfe stout, 

 slightly moniliforni. Taken in chalky places round London, about the beginning of June. 



Species 4. — Incurvaria spuria — (Haworth; Wood, fig. 1573; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 8j— Expands 

 6 to 7 lines ; fore wings narrow, brown, with a slight purple tinge, with two white spots on the inner margin, 

 and a third, more minute, on th.' costa, further removed from the tip than in the preceding species ; hind wings 

 dusky ; head tawny ; male antennas thickened. Near London, towards the end of May, but rare. 



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