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TINEID®. 
Anterior wings rather short, with the apex slightly rounded, shining, 
pale fuscous, with darker reticulations ; cilia greyish-fuscous. Posterior 
wings greyish-fuscous, with a slight violet gloss, with dark grey cilia. 
Not common; appears in June. Mr, Weaver has met with it 
in Scotland. 
5. Metaxella, Hiib. Tin. 413 (1816); Treit.; Dup.; Zell.; Sta. 
—Robertella, Step.? lis anticis dreviusculis, apice rotundalo, sericeis 
dilute ochreis obsolete fuscescente-reticulatis, ciliis dilute ochreis, ex- 
terne fuscis; alis posticis griscis, ciliis ochreis. Exp. al. 7—7y lin. 
Head dark ochreous. Face and palpi whitish. Antenne white. 
Anterior wings rather short, with the apex rounded, shining, pale ochve- 
ous, obscurely reticulated with pale fuscous, and a faint fuscous spot 
-at the termination of the discoidal cell; cilia pale ochreous, with the 
tips somewhat fuscous. Posterior wings grey, with ochreous cilia. 
Not uncommon in chalky places, in May and June, 
Genus XII. ADELA. 
Apegta, Lat. H. N. xiv. 253 (1805); Zell.—Alucita, Lat. R. A.A—Alu- 
cita p., Pab.—Capillaria p., Waw.—Adela p., Treit.; Curt.; Step.; 
Dup.; Zett. 
Caput superne hirsutum, epistomio plerumque levigato. Ocelli nulli. 
Palpi maxillares nulli. Palpi labiales cylindrici, infra hirsuti. Haus- 
tellum mediocre. Oculi in utroque sewu valde distantes. Antenne 
corpore multo longiores, basim versus incrassate, 2 breviores basi 
villosa. Ali anteriores oblong, venis quinque in marginem pos- 
ticum exeuntibus; alse posteriores oblongo-ovata, mediocriter ci- 
liatee. 
Head above hairy; the face mostly smooth. Ocelli none. Maxillary 
palpi none. Labial palpi cylindric, beneath hairy. Tongue of mode- 
rate length. Byes remote in both sewes. Antenne much longer than 
the body, slightly thickened towards the base; in the 9 shorter and at, 
the base downy. Anterior wings oblong. Posterior wings oblong- 
ovate, with moderate cilia. From the discoidal cell of the anterior 
wings, five veins run into the hinder margin. 
The perfect insects of this genus frequent flowers and trees, and 
delight to fly in the sunshine. A. viridel/a flies in swarms like 
gnats round the twigs of oaks. A. fidwled/a often abounds on the 
flowers of Veronica Chamedrys in the middle of the day, but con- 
ceals itself securely before evening. None of the larvae have yet 
been detected, excepting that of 4. Degeerella (figured by Fischer 
von Rislerstamm), which lives in a flat case, under fallen leaves in 
the winter, and feeds in the early spring on Anemone nemorosa, 
Rumex, od Alsine media. 
