MOMl'HAl 



KLAC11I.ST1DAK 



079 



4. 



3. raschkiella. 

 . 5. 

 . G. 

 9. fulvescens. 

 10. nchraceella. 

 I 'J. Stephensi. 

 7. 



1. Head metallic! 



„ not metallic 



2. Stigmata distinct, silver-metallic , L. termmella. 



„ not distinct .... 3. 



3. Korewings with metallic dorsal mark before tonms 



2. schrankella. 

 „ without such mark 



4. Forewings ochreous or yellow 



„ not OchreOUS or yellow 



5. Hindwings dark grey 



„ whitish-yellowish 



G. Forewings white . 



,, dark fuscous or grey . 



7. Head whitish-oehreous or ochreous-white . 



,, grey or dark fuscous on crown . . 9. 



8. Thorax and basal blotch ochreous-white 5. propmqydla. 



n ,, „ pale ferruginous-ochreous 



G. lacteella. 



9. Forewings with whitish fascia before middle 



8. subbistrigella. 

 „ without whitish fascia before middle . 10. 



10. Forewings with broad white dorsal streak 7. decorella. 



,, without such streak . . .11. 



11. Forewings with white tornal spot 4. amturbatella. 



„ without white tornal spot . 11. miscella. 



1 . M. terminella, Westw. 8-9 mm. 1 1 cad dark leaden-metallic, 

 face silvery. Antennae with 

 apex white. Forewings orange, 

 sometimes suffused with purple- 

 brown ; a black blotch on base 

 of costa, margined with silver- 

 metallic spots ; stigmata and a 

 spot above tornus silver-metallic, 

 black-edged, first discal whiter; 

 apex black, preceded on costa by 

 a white spot and on termer) by a 

 silver-metallic mark. Hindwings 

 dark fuscous. 



England to York, local; Ger- 

 many; 6. Larva whitish ; dorsal line green j head yellowish- 

 brown : in irregular (at first spiral) blotches in leaves of 

 Circaea lutetiana ; 8, 9. The imago is seldom observed at 

 large. 



