GELECHID&. 75 
Head and face pale greyish-ochreous. Palpi pale greyish-ochreous ; 
tuft of the second joint beneath pale fuscous. Antenne pale greyish- 
ochreous. Anterior wings pale greyish-ochreous, with a dark fuscous 
streak above the fold, from the base to beyond the middle, a dark 
fuscous spot on the fold before the middle, and another on the dise 
beyond the middle; cilia pale ochreous. Posterior wings whitish-grey, 
with whitish-ochreous cilia. 
In the variety acinacidella of Hiibner, the anterior wings are very 
much streaked with dark fuscous, and there is an additional dark fus- 
cous spot towards the inner margin near the base. 
Not common; most frequently found on the chalk ; appears in 
August and September, and again in spring. ‘The larva feeds on 
the spindle in June and July. 
Famuy V. GELECHIDA. 
Caput leve. Palpi labiales recurvati, varo breves, interdum articulo 
secundo in fasciculum producto, dle posteriores latiuscule, seepe 
trapezoidales vel ovato-lanceolate, raro acuminate (Pancalia, Butalis). 
Larva pedibus 16 preedita. 
Head smooth. Labial palpi recurved, generally long, sometimes with 
the second joint prolonged as a tuft. Posterior wings rather broad, 
often trapezoidal, or ovate-lanceolate, rarely acuminate (Pancalia, Bu- 
talis). Larva with sixteen feet. 
There is great discrepancy between the species composing the 
family, and no doubt future investigations, and the study of exo- 
tic forms, will enable us to subdivide it. Many individual genera 
are perhaps only types of extensive families, which have no 
other representatives in the temperate climate of Europe; and 
the discovery of species in India, Brazil, etc., may hereafter show 
that these isolated species are there represented more numerously, 
just as we find to be the case among the Nocrurna with Calpe 
Thalictri and Calyptra hibatrix, which, though anomalous among 
our Kuropean species, are the representatives of extensive tropical 
families. 
The genus Ge/echia, which forms so important a part of this 
family, is far more numerous in species than any other genus of 
Trvnina with which we are acquainted. In some of the genera 
of this family (PAibalocera, Harpella, Hypercallia, and Dasycera), 
the species are remarkably for their gay colouring; but the great 
bulk of the species in the other genera, would, in ordinary par- 
lance, be termed inconspicuous insects. Many of the species keep 
themselves so well concealed, that they are rarely met with in the 
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