TINE1NA 



IMOMI'MA 



oohreous. Porewinga yellow, suffusedly and irregularly irrorated 

 with pule ferruginous ; three darker scale-tufts above dorsum. 

 Ilindwings whitish-yellowish. 



Dorset, Norfolk and Cambridge to Durham, local ; Holland, 

 Switzerland, Austria; 6, 7. Larva pale yellowish; head pale 

 brown : in steins and roots of Epilobium hvrmtwn ; 3-5. 



11. M. miscella, Schiff. (Stamtoni, Sire.) 7-9 mm. Head 

 dark grey, faee whitish. Forewings dark grey, partly ferru- 

 ginous-tinged ; a blaek scale-tuft in disc towards base, followed 

 by a white dot; two oblique blackish fasciae before and beyond 

 middle, forming large scale-tufts near dorsum, on cosla separated 

 by a whitish spot, second interrupted ; a white costal spot at i ; 

 some black scales towards apex. Ilindwings grey. 



England, common ; (!. and SE. Europe, Asia Minor; 5, 6, 8. 



"Larva reddish, whitish marbled ; head and plate of 2 black : in 

 blotches in leaves (if lliliniitln iinim ■ .'!, I, 7. 



12. M. Stephensi, Stt. 8-10 mm. Head white. Forewings 

 white; three thick oblique dark fuscous streaks from costa, 

 first from base to middle of disc, second from beyond middle, 

 third apical, first and second terminating in large blackish 

 scale-tufts above dorsum, second and third united in disc by 

 a ferruginous streak. Ilindwings grey. 



Essex, York, in woods, local ; Germany ; 8. 



15. Hemozui.a, IIS. 

 Antennae |, in 3 thick, simple. Labial palpi very short, 

 drooping, filiform, pointed. Pos- 

 terior tibiae loosely haired. Fore- 

 wings ; lb simple, 5 absent, (> 

 and 7 stalked, 7 to costa, 8 

 absent, 9 absent, 10 sometimes 

 out of 7 near base. Hindwings 

 |, lanceolate, cilia 2; 2 absent, 

 transverse vein absent between 

 3 and 4, 6 absent. 



A small but probably nearly 

 cosmopolitan genus, nearly cor- 

 related to Antispila. Imago 

 with forewings broad-lanceolate, 

 in petioles, leaves, or twigs of 

 trees, often hard to detect. Pupa in an oval case cut out from 

 the leaf. The images fly in the sunshine. The species are 

 very similar and perhaps not all truly distinct. 



Larva almost apodal, mining 



