256 : ELACHISTID &. 
dium, maculis duabus triangularibus suddistinctis, ante apicem albidis, 
non confluentibus, apice non truncato ; ciliis griseis; capite, cum palpis, 
griseo. Exp. al. 33-4 lin. 
Head, face, and palpi grey, rather shining. Antenne fuscous. An- 
terior wings shining greyish-fuscous, with a very indistinct whitish 
fascia a little before the middle; the fascia is angulated on the fold, 
and is nearest the base on the costa; towards the apex are two rather 
conspicuous triangular whitish spots, that on the costa being nearest to 
the apex ; they are distinctly separated by the intervening ground-colour 
of the wing ; the apex of the wing is rounded, with a dark hinder mar- 
ginal line in the grey cilia. Posterior wings grey, with paler cilia. 
Mr. Douglas discovered this species on the 25th of May, 1848, 
flying plentifully over some long grass growing under trees in a 
damp part of West Wickham Wood. 
18. consortella, Sta. Sup. Cat. p. 9 (1851). Alis anticis (¢) 
angustis, griseis, puncto parvo albido plice ante medium, stria nigra 
plice in medio, maculis oppositis ante apicem albidis, fere in fasciam 
angulatam confluentibus, striola albida in apice ducta (? fascia media 
albida distincta, maculis oppositis fere in fasciam odliguam connexis) ; 
capite griseo. Exp. al. 3-34 lin. 
Head, face, and palpi grey. Antenne dark grey. Anterior wings 
narrow, (of the ¢) dark grey, with apparently no trace of the medial 
fascia, but on the fold is a small whitish spot, followed by a short black 
streak ; the opposite spots towards the apex are whitish, and nearly 
form an angulated fascia; from their union some whitish scales are con- 
tinued into the apex of the cilia; cilia grey, except the whitish apex. 
(In the ? the medial fascia is distinct, and the opposite spots nearly 
unite to form an oblique fascia.) Posterior wings grey, with paler 
cilia. 
Taken by Mr. Logan in March, amongst grass, on Arthur’s 
Seat. 
19. pulchella, Haw. L. B. 582 (1829); Step.; Sta. Alis anticis 
ad basim albis, postice nigris, macula costs prope basim elongata grisea, 
maculis duabus triangularibus saboppositis, ante apicem albis ; capite, 
cum palpis, alo. Exp. al. 3% lin. 
Head, face, and palpi white. Antenne fuscous. Anterior wings 
with the basal half entirely white (except a longitudinal grey patch 
along the costa, which terminates before the middle of the wing, so as 
to leave an entire white fascia), the apical half dark greyish-black, with 
two triangular xearly opposite white spots, that on the costa being 
rather nearer the apex; cilia grey, with a dark hinder marginal line. 
Posterior wings pale grey, with paler cilia. 
Occurs singly among grass in May and June; as all the speci- 
mens with which we are acquainted are females, it is probably the 
female of some other known species, possibly of obscuredia. 
