STERRHOPTERIX] PSYCHIDAE 445 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous - grey. Forewings and 

 hindwings greyish, with very fine thinly scattered hairs. 



Surrey, Middlesex, Lancashire, Durham, Perth, local ; C. 

 Eiu-ope ; 6, 7. Larva brown ; head and 2-4 whitish, much 

 marked with black : case narrowed towards ends, covered with 

 transversely placed fragments of stems, seed-vessels, etc. ; on 

 oak, hawthorn, Salix, etc. ; 8-5. 



2. ZEUZERIDAE. 



Head rough-haired. Ocelli present. Tongue rudimentary. 

 Antennae less than h Labial palpi very short, porrected, 

 terminal joint pointed. Thorax hairy beneath. Abdomen very 

 long, hairy. Femora hairy, posterior tibiae without middle- 

 spurs. Forewings : 7 and 8 stalked, 9 connate with or out of 

 8 near base, both parting-veins strong. Hindwings : 4 and 5 

 somewhat approximated, 8 free or connected with 7. 



This family is also small, widely distributed but mainly 

 within the tropics. Imago with forewings elongate-triangular ; 

 flight powerful, nocturnal. 



Ovum elongate-oval, smooth. Larva feeding in the stems of 

 trees or plants. Pupa within the lai'val gallery ; it is furnished 

 with abdominal whorls of spines, by means of which it can 

 traverse the gallery when about to emerge. 



Tabulation of Genera. 



8 of hindwings connected by bar with 7 . 2. Zeuzbra. 

 „ „ free . . L Phragmatoecia. 



L Phragmatoecia, Newm. 



Antennae \, in $ bipectinated throughout, on apical third 

 vei'y shortly. Palpi hairy. Tibiae hairy. Hindwings : 8 

 free. 



A sniall genus, principally Asiatic ; only one species occurs 

 in Europe. 



\. P. castaneae, Uh. (arimdmis, Hb.) 34-42 mm. Thorax 

 pale browaiish-ochreous. Forewings pale brownish -ochreous ; 

 interneural series of numerous very small indistinct fuscous 

 spots. Hindwings very pale brownish-ochreous. 



Surrey, Norfolk, Cambridge, local ; C. Europe, C. Asia ; 

 6, 7. Larva ochreous - whitish ; head, 2, and 3 pale brown ; 

 subdorsal line pale purplish, sometimes nearly obsolete : in 

 stems of reed (Phragmites) ; 6-5. 



