KPICHNOPTERYX] 



TINEIDAE 



773 



Kent to Hants and Essex, in salt-marshes, local ; Holland ; 6. 

 Larva pinkish-white ; head black; 2-4 with dark brown plates: 

 case covered with fragments of grass and Conferva; on grass CI); 

 9-4. 



2. E. pulla, Esp. (radiella, Curt.) 11-14 mm. Forcwings 

 and hindwiugs rather thinly clothed with dark fuscous hair- 

 scales; (i and usually 10 of forewings present. 



Kent to Hants and Essex, local; C. and S. Europe, Asia 

 Minor; 5,6, Larva whitish, purplish-tinged j head black ; 2-4 

 blackish-marked : case covered with longitudinally placed frag- 

 ments of grass ; on grass; 7-4. 



24. Fumea, m. 



Head rough. Tongue obsolete. Antennae in ( J },, bipectinated 

 to apex. Labial palpi short, porrcctcd, densely hairy. Maxillary 

 palpi rudimentary. Posterior 

 tibiae smooth - scaled above. 

 Forewings scaled ; lb furcate, 

 7 to apex, 7 and 8 sometimes 

 short stalked, 9 absent. Hind- 

 wings under I, ovate, cilia \; 4 

 absent. 9 apterous. 



A small European genus, of 

 which the species, from their 

 obscurity and similarity, are 

 si ill imperfectly understood. 

 Imago with forewings elongate! 

 or rather broad, costa moderately 

 arched, termen oblique. Larva 

 in a portable case covered with 

 refuse. 



1. Forewings with apex obtuse or rounded 



,, ,, distinctly pointed 



2. Forcwings purplish-tinged, apex obtuse 



,, bronzy-tinged, apex rounded 



3. Forewings uniformly dark 



,, paler-mixed 



1. F. crassiorella, /In/. J 14-15 nun. 



Nminiliou of 7*'i 



2. 



■ .i ni. i mt dialla. 



. 2. 



. 3. 

 1. crassiorella. 

 intermediella. 



.">. In till ill". 



4. sepiv/m. 

 Forewings rather 



broad, apex tolerably obtuse ; dark fuscous, purplish -tinged. 

 Hindwings rather dark fuscous. ? with anal tuft grey-whitish, 

 brownish-mixed. 



Surrey, Middlesex, local; S( I. Europe; 7. Larva light 

 purplish-brown; subdorsal anil spiracular lines on 2-4 reddish; 



