338 THE TINEINA, 



tember, the caterpillars quit the grain and seek some 

 sheltered position, usually in the cracks and inter- 

 stices of the woodwork of the granary, in which to 

 take up their quarters for the winter. Here they 

 enclose themselves in cocoons, composed of particles 

 of gnawed wood fastened together with silk, and in 

 these they remain without change until the com- 

 mencement of fine weather in the spring, when they 

 become converted into pupae, from which the perfect 

 Moths escape in about three weeks. The Moth 

 measures from one-third to more than half an inch 

 across the wings ; the anterior wings are white, with 

 dark brown or blackish spots. 



Although the majority of the species of this tribe fly 

 principally in the dusk of the evening, many of them, 

 besides the one just mentioned, are active during the 

 day, and in fact appear to delight in the brightest 

 sunshine. These are for the most part adorned with 

 bright colours, and often exhibit brilliant metallic 

 tints, some of them glittering with streaks and spots of 

 gold and silver, which give them a most gem-like ap- 

 pearance notwithstanding their minute size. Amongst 

 the most remarkable of these day-fliers are the species 

 of the genus Adela, or the Long-horns, in which the 

 antennae are of extraordinary length, sometimes many 

 times longer than the body. One of the commonest 

 of these is the Green Long-horn {Adela viridella), a 

 pretty little insect, with the anterior wings, which 

 measure about half an inch across, of a bright brassy 

 green colour, and the long slender antennae white^ ^ 

 with the base black. It is found abundantly in June, , 

 in oak-woods, the males dancing, like gnats, in the 

 sunshine, in small parties of about twenty, or flying 5 

 in similar societies about the ends of the branches of i 



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