. A handbook of British lepidoptera. Lepidoptera. 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
. A handbook of British lepidoptera. Lepidoptera. 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 â .'!, 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. , 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 sunshi
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