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According to Mr. H. T. Stainton the larvae of this genus seem ex¬ 
clusively attached to plants of the Borage family, on which they feed. 
Anesychia sparsiciliella. —Fore wings white with deep black markings. At 
the extreme base of the costa is a small black spot and one on the inner margin 
at the base, of the same hue. On the middle of the costa, is a rather large black 
spot, nearly square, but with a slight incision on its inner side and doubly 
curved on its exterior side. ISTear the middle of the fold is a black dot, and one 
obliquely above it in the disk. The apical portion of the wing is slightly dusted 
with dispersed, black atoms, and near the hinder margin on the ends of the 
nervules are a few black dots. Cilia white slightly dusted with blackish. Hind 
wings dark gray, cilia the same. 
Antennae blackish, white at base. Head white. Labial palpi Avhitish, with 
a l)lack strijae along the base of the middle joint. 
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ELACHISTA ? 
Hind wings with very long cilia, cimeter-like, extremely narrow. 
The submedian and internal veins are obsolete. Subcostal vein, paral¬ 
lel and contiguous to the costa and furcate at the extreme tip of the 
wing. The discal vein is extremely attenuated and short, and gives 
olf a furcate branch very near to the stalk of the subcostal vein. 
Fore wings narrowly lanceolate. The discoidal cell is very narrow. 
The subcostal vein sends olF three branches to the costa; the apicAil 
vein gives off a hrancli from its middle and is trifid at its tip. Be¬ 
neath the apical vein, are three branches to the margin beneath the 
tip, two of which are branches of the median vein, the posterior being 
only faintly indicated. The submedian is furcate at its base. 
Head smooth. Forehead rounded. Face rather broad. Basal joint 
of antennm slightly thickened {stalk wanting^. Labial palpi slightly 
curved, depressed, cylindrical, slender, pointed. 
Elachista'? orichalcella. —The entire insect is of a beautiful, metallic cuper- 
ous color. The hind wings and cilia, are rather pale ochreous. 
I have before me a single specimen, badly set but otherwise in good 
condition. 
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