Insects. 2157 



Sp. 27. Demaryella, Duponchel (fig. 32). 

 Elachista Demaryella, Duponchel, xi. 547, PI. 309, f. 5. 



Expansion of the wings 4 — 4| lines. Head grayish brown. Forehead whitish. 

 Palpi whitish. Antennae white, annulated with fuscous. Thorax grayish tawny. 

 Abdomen fuscous, with the extremity paler. Legs whitish. Tarsi whitish, annulated 

 with fuscous. Anterior wings grayish tawny, with two pale angulated fasciae ; one 

 about the middle, the other somewhat interrupted towards the apex ; both these are 

 broadest on the inner margin ; the space between them is of a deeper colour than the 

 rest of the wing, and from the extremity of the second a pale streak proceeds to the 

 apex of the wing : there is a black spot at the inner apex of the second fascia, and 

 the inner marginal half of the first fascia has a black mark externally. There are 

 some faint indications of a pale basal line, and the inner margin at the base is rather 

 pale : cilia pale fuscous, interspersed with grayish atoms. Posterior wings clear gray, 

 with paler cilia. 



I took a specimen of this insect in Torwood, Stirlingshire, June 11th last, at the 

 same time that I took my tenella. Mr. Logan has also a specimen, which he beat out 

 of a hazel bush, near Luss, Dumbartonshire, on the evening of the 5th July last. 



DuponchePs figure is very badly coloured, if this be really his species, as he repre- 

 sents the apical portion of the wings bright red ; at any rate his figure agrees much 

 better with this species than with corylifoliella, with which Guenee appears to have 

 confounded it. 



Sp. 28. scitella, Metzner (fig. 26). 



Opostega scitella, Metzner, MSS. Zeller, Isis, 1839. 



Argyromiges Clerckella, Stephens, Illust. iv. 261. Wood's fig. 1337. 



Expansion of the wings 2| — 4 lines. Head bluish gray. Forehead metallic 

 black. Palpi metallic black. Antennae black. Thorax bluish gray. Abdomen fus- 

 cous, with the extremity paler. Legs and tarsi shining, pale fuscous. Anterior wings 

 bluish gray to beyond the middle ; then follows on the costal half of the wing a pale 

 tawny blotch, interrupted by a clear white triangular mark : on the inner margin, at 

 the anal angle, is an oval deep black spot, with a purple spot right across the middle 

 of it : cilia white, except on the costa when opposite the tawny spot, with four very 

 distinct black radiating lines from the apex. Posterior wings leaden gray, with paler 

 cilia. 



I have taken several of this insect myself, beating them out of whitethorn hedges, 

 in May and June. Mr. Bedell took it in plenty, July 6th, 1845, out of whitethorn 

 hedges, between Camberwell and Dulwich. 



This insect is not the Clerckella of Linneus, who says, 'Fauna Suecica,' 1411, 

 " Anterior wings silvery to the apex, substriated with brownish golden, and caudate, 

 with a round black ocellus ; " and in his next description (Harrisella) he says, " with 

 the apex obtuse, not pointed as in the preceding." In the first place, the wings of 

 scitella are not silvery, but grayish ; in the second place, they are not caudate or 

 tailed ; and in the third place, the black spot is far from being " a round black ocel- 

 lus," but at a first glance appears like two black round spots, with an oval violet one 

 between them ; and lastly, the idea of alluding to this insect as one with " pointed " 

 wings is manifestly absurd, as it is notoriously the bluntest in the genus. 



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