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nearly filled up with bluish-black ; cilia orange, mixed with bluish-grey. 
Posterior wings grey, with paler cilia. 
This beautiful species is extremely rare; a specimen recently 
taken at Darenth Wood, in May, is in Mr. Shepherd’s collection. 
Mr. Douglas has a specimen, of the locality of which he is not 
aware. 
2. granitella, Treit. E. 8. ix. 2. 265 (1833); BF. v. R. pl. 8; 
Zell.; Dup.? Alis anticis griseo, albo, fuscoque marmoratis, macula 
fusca dorsali ante medium, utrinque albido-maculata, macula altera 
fusca, maculam parvam albam includente, ad angulum analem. xp. 
al. 6 lin. 
Head greyish-fuscous. Face grey. Palpi grey, with two fuscous 
rings. Antenne whitish, annulated with fuscous. Anterior wings 
marbled with grey, white and fuscous, with two more conspicuous fus- 
cous spots on the inner margin, one before the middle reaching to the 
fold, with a whitish spot on each side of it, the other towards the anal 
angle not crossing the fold, and including a small white spot on the 
inner margin; beyond the middle of the costa are four or five fuscous 
spots, the two last of which are preceded by whitish spots ; cilia grey- 
ish-fuscous. Posterior wings grey, with paler cilia. 
Appears in July among Jnula dysenterica, continuing through- 
out the autumn, hybernated specimens occurring as late as June, 
when the larvee are already nearly full-fed, mining the leaves of 
that plant. 
3. pygmeeana, Haw. L. B. 438 (1812).—autumnitelia, Curt.— 
Lefeboriella, Dup. xi. pl. 290. f. 11.—Heleniella, Zell. ; W.-S.—Vige- 
liella, Dup.? Alis anticis brunneo albidoque marmoratis, macula tri- 
angulari squamas nonnullas nigras includente, in medio dorsi, albida, 
macula obliqua coste pone medium nigra, stria postica disci nigra. 
Exp. al. 5} lin. 
Head ferruginous. Face fuscous. Palpi whitish, with two faint 
fuscous rings. Antenne whitish, annulated with fuscous. Anterior 
wings marbled with pale brown and whitish, with a rather conspicuous 
triangular whitish spot, including some black scales on the middle of 
the inner margin; on the costa a little beyond the middle is a short 
oblique black spot; towards the apex are three small whitish spots on 
the costa and two on the inner margin; on the disc near the apex is a 
short black streak, followed by some bluish-grey scales ; cilia fuscous, 
with a pale yellowish dash in the middle of the hinder margin.  Pos- 
terior wings grey, paler at the base, with paler grey cilia. 
Appears in the autumn, but rarely met with till the spring, 
when they are occasionally seen flying on hot sunny afternoons. 
T well remember finding three specimens on such an afternoon, 
on the 3rd of April, 1848. The larva may be met with from 
July to September, mining the leaves of Solanum Dulcamara, 
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