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Zell, lis anticis albidis, fusco-variegatis, maculis tribus parvis costee, 
quatuor dorsi fuscis, macula tertia dorsi saturatiore, sepe cum tertia coste 
in fasciam conneca. xp. al. 5% lin. 
Head and face white. Palpi white; terminal joint with two black 
rings. Antenne white, annulated with black. Anterior wings whitish, 
with numerous irregularly-formed fuscous spots, of which three are on 
the costa (one at the base, one before, and the other beyond the mid- 
dle), and four are on the inner margin (one at the base, very small, a 
second before the middle, @ third darker in the middle, reaching more 
than half across the wing, and frequently uniting with the third costal 
spot to form an oblique fascia, the fourth is at the anal angle); cilia 
white, with some dark fuscous lines. Posterior wings grey, with grey- 
ish-ochreous cilia. 
Occasionally met with in mixed hedges in July and August, 
but not common. 
It is doubtful whether the gemmedia of the ‘Systema Natura’ 
be identical with that of the ‘Fauna Suecica, and as the “ Haditat 
intra Quereus folia subcutanea” appears in the former, from which 
it is copied, with the Diagnosis, in the ‘Fauna Suecica,’ it may 
be that the larva of this species does not mine in oak-leaves. 
The inference to be drawn from the specimen and pupa-skin in 
the Linnean Cabinet, is that Linneus was acquainted with the 
habitat of the larva. 
88. neeviferella (Zcll.), Dup. L. F. Sup. iv. 455. pl. 85, f. 4 
(1842); Dougl.—Knockella, Haw.? Step.?—miscella, Haw.?  Alis 
anticis nigricantibus, fascia media obscura saturatiore, puncto plice 
pone medium, triangulo parvo dorsi ad angulum analem, trianguloque 
costa posteriore aureis. Exp. al. 4-4) lin. 
Head and face bronzy-grey. Palpi dark fuseous. Antenne fuscous, 
with hardly perceptible paler annulations. Anterior wings shining 
dark bronzy-grey, inclining to black, with three small golden-yellow 
spots (one on the fold beyond the middle, one rather triangular at the 
anal angle, and a larger triangular spot posterior to it on the costa; 
below this latter a very small golden-yellow spot is sometimes per- 
ceptible) ; cilia bronzy-grey, with the tips paler. Posterior wings grey, 
with paler cilia. 
Not uncommon in waste places where Atriplex and Chenopo- 
dium grow, appearing in May and August; fine specimens are 
rarely met with in the perfect state. The larva mines, in June 
and October, in the leaves of the Atriplex and Chenopodium, pre- 
ferring those growing in sheltered places ; hence it is very partial 
to those plants growing in stubble-fields, where, before the corn 
was cut, it was completely sheltered; the places mined by it be- 
come white. 
89. Hermannella, Fab. S. I. ii. 509 (1781); Treit.; Dup.; 
