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being pushed back to the middle of the disc, so that the wings are traversed by veins, the branches of which 

 reach the margins, at equal distances apart ; the wings are scaly, and deflexed in repose ; the head is woolly ; 

 the antennae short and filiform, the labial palpi very small, whilst the maxillary are long and porrected, the 

 maxillse or spiral tongue being almost obsolete ; the abdomen of the males is furnished with two long curved 

 horny appendages at the tips. In several of these respects this genus makes a near approach to the Trichoptera. 



Species 1. — Ekiocephala subpurpurella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1592; and our Plate CXX., 

 Fig. 10) — Expands 3i to 6 lines ; fore wings golden ; hind wings purple-brown, especially towards the apex, or 

 brown without any purple gloss ; the head in one sex is very hairy. Taken in woods, where broom occurs, 

 in June. 



Species 2. — Eriocephala semipurpurella — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1593 ; and our Plate CXX., Fig. 11) — 

 Expands 6 to 7 lines ; fore wings long and narrow, anteriorly of a shining immaculate purple ; hind wings very 

 transparent and brown. Darenth Wood, and elsewhere, in June. 



Species 3.— Eriocephala purpurellaP — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1594; and our Plate CXX., Fig. 

 12) — Expands 4^ to 5 lines ; fore wings bright purple, sprinkled beyond the middle with minute white dots, 

 and with a fascia-like spot near the anal angle on the inner margin of the wing ; hind wings brown,* the 

 extremity with golden purplish gloss. Near London, in the summer, and also in February, according to 

 Mr. Haworth. 



P Synohttme. — Tinea Goldeggella, Hubner ? 



Species 4. — Eriocephala AUROPtrRPURELLA '• — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1595; and our Plate CXX., 

 Fig. 13) — Expands 5 to 5i lines ; fore wings brilliant reddish-purple, with various golden spots and dots 

 scattered over the wings, and which are occasionally more or less confluent ; hind wings brown, the apex slightly 

 purplish-golden. Taken upon flowers, in June, but very rare. 



** Synonyme. — Tinea Sparmannella, Fabricius ? 



Species 5. — Eriocephala rdbro-aurella "i — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1596 ; and our Plate CXX., 

 Fig. 14) — Expands 5 lines ; fore wings red-gold, or rich purplish-gold, with a spot towards the apical margin, 

 in which is a minute brown dot ; the middle of the inner margin with another small golden spot ; hind wings 

 glossed with purple and gold. Taken in woods, in the summer, but rare. 



< SvNONVME. — Tinea fibulella, Fabricius ? 



Species 6. — Eriocephala rdbrifasciella "■ — (Haworth, &c. ; and our Plate CXX., Fig. 15) — Expands 

 4 to 4^ lines ; fore wings dark metallic golden coloured, with four equidistant red-purple fasciae, the first basal, 

 the second slightly curved before, the third beyond the middle, and bifid at the costa, the fourth on the apical 

 margin, united to the third near the anal angle ; fringe brown ; hind wings coppery-brown, especially beyond 

 the middle. On trunks of birch-trees, whitethorn hedges, flowers, &c., in May. 



' Synonyme. — Tinea Helwigella, Hiibner? Stephens; Wood, fig. 1597. 



Species 7- — Eriocephala sanguinella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1598 ; and our Plate CXX., Fig. 

 16)— Expands 4 lines ; fore wings rich yellow or golden-coloured, but not metallic, with four fasciae, the first 

 and second as in the preceding species, but nearly blood-red, the third bifid on the inner margin and not on the 

 costa, and the fourth apical and not united to the third ; fringe golden ; hind wings brown. Supposed to have 

 been taken in Kent. 



