5S0 TINEINA [ai-hanaula 



Forewings witli broad white fascia . . 2. leucatella. 



„ without sucli fascia . . 1. nanella. 



1. A. nanella, lib. 11-12 mm. Forewings dark grey, 

 whitish-sprinkled, especially beyond dark markings; an oblique 

 narrow fascia rather near base, a spot on costa before and 

 another beyond middle, stigmata, a spot below second discal 

 and separated from it by a white mark, a spot on tornus, 

 another in disc beyond it, and one at apex black, variable in 

 development; an indistinct fine whitish sharply angulated 

 transverse posterior lino. Hindwings grey. 



Kent to Gloucester and Essex, local ; C. Europe ; 7. Larva 

 brown-reddish; head and plate of 2 black: variously said to 

 feed on flowers and in shoots of pear, or on lichens growing on 

 the trunks ; 5. 



2. A. leucatella, L. 12-13 mm. Head ochrcous-white. 

 Forewings dark fuscous ; a broad white or ochrcous-white fascia 

 at £ ; stigmata and a dot below second discal indistinctly 

 blackish, somewhat raised ; a white spot on tornus, and another 

 on costa opposite ; some white terminal scales. Hindwings 

 grey. 



England to York, not uncommon ; Europe, Asia Minor ; 7. 

 Larva light brown to whitish-green, more or less rosy-tinged ; 

 head and plate of 2 black : between joined leaves of hawthorn 

 and apple ; 5, 6. 



8. Epithectis, n.g. 



Second joint of labial palpi thickened with rough scales 

 beneath, terminal nearly as long as second, somewhat roughened 

 anteriorly. Forewings : 7 and 8 out of 6. Hindwings 1, 

 trapezoidal, apex pointed, termen somewhat sinuate, cilia 1 ; 3 

 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 and 7 stalked. 



A small northern temperate genus, correlated with the pre- 

 ceding. Imago with forewings elongate, pointed. 



Forewings yellow . . . .1. lathyri. 



„ light brownish . . .2. mouffetella. 



1. E. lathyri, Stt. (nigricostella, Dgl., non T)up.) 9-12 mm. 

 Forewings pale ochreous-yellowish, suffused with deeper yellow 

 in disc; a thick dark grey costal streak from base to ^, includ- 

 ing a yellow streak near base ; an irregular sometimes inter- 

 rupted dorsal streak and an apical patch dark grey ; a black 

 discal dot near base; first discal stigma and a small round spot 

 above tornus black. Hindwings light grey. 



Norfolk, Cambridge, Cheshire, Perth, local ; not recorded 



