250 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 5.— Incurvaria (?) tripuncta— (Haworth ; Wood, fig. 1574 ; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 9)— 

 Expands 6 to 6^ lines ; fore wings dark brown ; costa with two white spots, and another on the inner margin, 

 near the anal angle, forming a triangle with the others, the apical margin sometimes slightly spotted with yellow. 

 The labial palpi in this species are slender and recurved, and the head is clothed with depressed scales. Taken 

 round London, about the beginning of June. 



Species 6. — Inccrvaria rupimitrella — (Hiibner ; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 10) — Expands 6 lines ; 

 wings entirely dark-brown, with a slight golden gloss ; head clothed above with tawny hairs ; labial palpi very 

 short, and not recurved. Described from the cabinet of Mr. Bentley. 



AMAUROSETIA, Stephens. 

 The maxillary palpi are distinct, but very minute ; the labial rather long, slender, diverging, straight, and 

 depending, with the terminal joint slender, and subacute ; the head is clothed above with decumbent scales ; 

 the antennffi simple in both sexes ; the fore wings are incumbent in repose, elongate, narrow, with short fringe, 

 and plainly coloured, usually with some pale markings. 



Species 1. — Amaurosetia oppositella — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1575; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 11) 

 — Expands 5 to 6i lines ; fore wings obscure-brown, with two equal-sized yellow spots, one on the costa, and 

 the other opposite to it, on the inner margin ; hind wings and front of body brown. Common in gardens 

 in June. 



Species 2. — Amaurosetia 4-punctella — (Fabricius, &c.; Wood, fig. 1576; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 

 12) — Expands 6 lines ; fore wings brown, sometimes paler brown, with two approximating white spots in the 

 middle, one towards the inner margin larger and transverse ; these spots are sometimes nearly obsolete. 

 Gardens and woods, in June. 



Species 3. — Amaurosetia minutella — (Linnasus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1577 ; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 13) 

 — Expands 4i to 5 lines ; fore wings brown, with two yellow spots, one in the middle of the inner margin, and 

 the other on the disc beyond the middle, seldom extending quite to the costa ; head yellowish. Near 

 London and Norfolk, in June. 



Species 4. — Amaurosetia atrella — (Hiibner, &o. ; Wood, fig. 1578) — Expands 5 lines ; all the wings 

 narrow and black ; the fore ones with two yellow spots (sometimes almost obsolete) on the opposite margins, 

 one placed rather beyond the middle of the costa, and the other nearly in the middle of the inner margin ; head 

 brown ; hind legs black, with whitish articulations. Near Darenth Wood, in June. 



Species 5.— Amaurosetia Knockella — (Fabricius ? Haworth) — Expands 4 lines ; fore wings golden- 

 brownish, with a whitish spot, or yellowish-white towards the extremity of the costa, and a broad whitish streak 

 on the inner margin. A single specimen taken in the Spring, at Coombe Wood, by Mr. Haworth. 



Species 6. — Amaurosetia Cerusella — (Hiibner, &c.; Wood, fig. 1579; and our Plate CXIX., Fig. 14) 

 — Expands 4^ lines ; fore wings white at the base, ashy-white or hoary beyond the middle, with three 

 indistinct brown spots arranged in a triangle, two on the opposite margins, the inner one much darker, and the 

 third in the middle of the apical margin ; hind wings leaden-brown, with brownish fringe. Fine specimens 

 have a brown line from the base to the middle, and a black dot near the middle of the inner margin. Taken in 

 grassy places, in June. 



