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fuscous coloured blotch, edged with red at the lower part, a little beyond the 

 middle of the wing ; at the extremity of this blotch a white dot is visible. 

 Chcerophyllivoretta is a little greyish fuscous-coloured moth, the larvae of 

 which feeds in July, in the umbels of Charophyllum iemulentum. It is just 

 a trifle larger than albipunctella, expanding nine lines and a half. Applanella 

 is half-a-line larger and has reddish fuscous- coloured fore-wings, clouded with 

 fuscous, and two black dots before the middle, and two white ones beyond. 

 Ciliella, which feeds in the larval state on angelica, is somewhat like it, but 

 is larger and redder, and has the fringes of the hind-wings tipped with red- 

 dish, which is not the case with applanelia. Pulcherrimetta is reddish fuscous 

 and heracliella greyish ochreous ; the remainder are little pale ochreous- 

 coloured moths. 



The greyish ochreous furze-haunting Gelechia mulinella, the little reddish- 

 ochreous G. costella, which feeds in the larval state within the stems, leaves 

 and berries of woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), the black G. anthylli- 

 della which we find in clover fields and the reddish orange G. kermanella, the 

 larvae of which feed in orach and goosefoot will serve as examples of the 

 typical genus of the family. They all have oblong or elongate fore-wings 

 and trapezoid shaped hind ones, emarginate below the tip; the palpi are 

 moderately long and rcrlexed with terminal joint slender and pointed. 



In the (Ecop/wridce we find the moths possessed of long and slender palpi 

 just as in the Gelechidce, although not so fully developed, and they have 

 broad blunt heads which the last named family do not possess. Speaking of 

 the palpi, I of course mean the labial palpi, as the maxillary ones are not de- 

 veloped. The fore- wings are mostly elongate, and the hind ones elongate on 

 lanceolate, unindented, with long fringes, (Ecqpkora pseudo-spretella, an 

 ochreous coloured moth which feeds in the larval state on dried peas, &c, and 

 the dirty grey Endrosis fenedrella which we see in abundance in lumber rooms 

 in houses all the year round, may be taken as examples of this family. 



In several localities, chiefly in the North and West of England, occurs in 

 July and August, a little greyish ochreous moth with antennae ringed with 

 white and brown. This is Coleophora annulatella and may be taken as an 

 example of the family Coleop&orida. The moths of this family, have the an- 

 tennae porrected in repose, the labial palpi are slender, with the terminal 

 joint pointed. The wings are elongate and lanceolate. The moth just named 

 lives as a larva within a short whitish-grey case, to the outside of which it 

 attaches grains of sand ; it feeds on the seeds of orach and goosefoot, and 

 should be looked for in the autumn. 



Of the family Elachistidce, we have in August the dark fuscous Chauliodus 

 cliarophyllella, whose fore-wings have tooth-like projections of scales on the 



