Archive image from page 694 of A handbook of British lepidoptera. A handbook of British lepidoptera CUbiodiversity1126142 Year: 1895 ( ] ELACHISTIDAE Bindwings A, narrow-lanceolate, cilia 4; transverse vein partly absent, 3 absent, 5 and 6 stalked. There is only one known species. Imago with forewings elongate-lanceolate. 1. D. ocnerostomella, Stt. 8-10 mm. Forewings rather dark grey, in-orated with pale; sometimes a faint pale dorsal spot before tornus; cilia with lines of blackish points. Hindwings grey. Kent and Sussex to Norfolk, E. Ireland, local; Holland, Germany, Asia Minor;
Archive image from page 694 of A handbook of British lepidoptera. A handbook of British lepidoptera CUbiodiversity1126142 Year: 1895 ( ] ELACHISTIDAE Bindwings A, narrow-lanceolate, cilia 4; transverse vein partly absent, 3 absent, 5 and 6 stalked. There is only one known species. Imago with forewings elongate-lanceolate. 1. D. ocnerostomella, Stt. 8-10 mm. Forewings rather dark grey, in-orated with pale; sometimes a faint pale dorsal spot before tornus; cilia with lines of blackish points. Hindwings grey. Kent and Sussex to Norfolk, E. Ireland, local; Holland, Germany, Asia Minor; 7. Larva in stems of Echium; 9, 10. Pupa within the stem. 19. Perittia, Stt. Antennae |, in S simple. Labial palpi rather short, droop- ing, filiform, pointed. Posterior tibiae rough-haired. Fore- wings : lb furcate, 5 absent, 6 and 7 stalked, 7 to costa, 8 absent. Hindwings f, lanceolate, cilia 3; 5 absent, 6 and 7 stalked. There is but ono species. Imago with forewings elongate- lanceolate. 1. P. obscuripunctella, Stt. 8-10 mm. Forewings light shining grey, somewhat darker-sprinkled ; plical stigma dark fuscous, elongate, followed by some whitish scales, second discal fuscous, indistinct. Hindwings grey. England, common; Holland, Germany ; 5. Larva greenish- grey; dorsal line darker ; head dark brown ; plate of 2 blackish: in blotches in leaves of Lonicera; 7. The imago flies along hedges on sunny afternoons. 20. Scytiiius, lib. Antennae ;!, in <J shortly ciliated. Labial palpi long, curved, ascending, second joint smooth- scaled, terminal shorter, acute. Posterior tibiae rough - haired. Forewings: lb shortly furcate or simple, 5 seldom absent, 6 and 7 stalked, 7 to costa, 8 absent, Hindwings § to almost 1, lanceo- late, cilia l|-3; transverse vein sometimes absent, 1 and 5 some- times stalked or coincident. A rather largo and practically cosmopolitan genus, though seemingly much more numerous in the wanner parts of Europe Neural ion of Scythris fuscocuprea.
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