258 ELACHISTID ©. 
dark hinder marginal line whitish. Posterior wings brown-grey, with 
paler cilia. 
Formerly taken by Mr. Sircom in August, near Bristol. Mr. 
Scott bred a specimen last summer from a larva he found near 
Renfrew, mining in May the leaves of (he believes) Aira caspi- 
tosa. 
24. gangabella (I. v. R.), Zell. Hnt. Ztg. 1850, p. 202; Sta. 
Alis anticis fuscis, fascia media flava sub costam attenuata, maculam tri- 
gonam dorsi simulante; ciliis fusco-griseis ; capite cum palpis fusco. 
Exp. al. 4 lin. 
Head, face, palpi, and antenne dark fuscous. Anterior wings dark 
fuscous, with a straight yellow fascia in the middle, very narrow towards 
the costa, but swelling out to a triangular spot on the inner margin ; cilia 
greyish-fuscous. Posterior wings grey, with paler cilia. 
A scarce species, taken. by Mr. Douglas in Headley Lane, and 
by myself at Dartford Heath, in June. 
25. obliquella, Edleston in lit. Alis anticis fuscis, fascia fere 
recta lutea paulo post medium; ciliis apicis dilute luteis ; capite cum 
palpis duéeo ; antennis fuscis albo-annulatis. xp. al. 44 lin. 
Head, face, and palpi duteous. Antennee dark fuscous, annulated 
with white. Anterior wings dark fuscous, with a nearly straight, yel- 
lowish fascia, rather beyond the middle; apical cilia pale yellowish be- 
yond a dark hinder marginal line; cilia at the anal angle fuscous. 
Posterior wings fuscous, with paler cilia. 
Two specimens in Mr, Hdleston’s collection, taken near 
London. 
26. abruptella, n. sp. Alis anticis fuscis, fascia fere recta pone 
medium alba; ciliis apicis truncati albidis; capite cum palpis albo ; 
antennis fuscis. Exp. al. 44 lin. 
Head, face, and palpi white. Antenne fuscous. Anterior wings 
fuscous, with @ nearly straight white fascia a little beyond the middle ; 
the cilia at the truncate apex are whitish, Posterior wings grey, with 
paler cilia. 
Two specimens in Mr. Allis’s collection. 
27. Megerlella, Sta. Cat. p. 27 (1849); Zell.; Dougl. Ent. 
Trans, ii. n. s. 2. pl. xviii. f. 2; Step. ?—wnifusciella, Haw.? lis an- 
ticis grisco-fuscis, fascia media tenui flavida, superius recta, inferius ba- 
sim versus flexa; ciliis apicis flavidis ; capite cum palpis albido; an- 
tennis fuscis. Exp. al. 5 lin. 
Head, face, and palpi whitish. Antenne greyish-fuscous. Anterior 
wings greyish-fuscous (darker in the ?), with a yellowish fascia in the 
middle; this fascia is very slender, when it first leaves the costa it is 
nearly straight, but after reaching the fold it turns a little towards the 
base of the wing, it is broadest on the inner margin, its outer edge 
