11)7 



sti'iiiiiflil, curving' aiDUiid touMid tlic very iiiuch-ioiiiulcd iipcx; llic niilci" cdi^c 

 is as lon:^ as tlic iiiiKM". Tlu' hind wiii^rs arc iiiiiisnally lonix and lariic, |)i"o)<!ct- 

 iiiir I'ai' hcyoiid tlir end ol' llic alxidiiicii, and willi fhr enter edire nmcli 

 niiindcd. \i'nali()n: tlie firsl, second, third, and Tonilh sidx'oslal veiudes 

 arc rcniarkalily short ; the lari^c snhcostal cell is situated nean'r the apex tliaii 

 usual. The oriirin ol' the tiisl median veunle is remote from the '>thors: tin- 

 lower discal venule is long and very ol)rH|ue. Tlind legs with the tarsi sl(;ii- 

 dor and as long as the tihiie. 



Fenuik. — Partially wingless, with the wings small and narrow, not reach- 

 ing to the end ot" the alxlomen. The body is short and stout, and much 

 pointed toward the end. For other characters see i)age 41. 



OPKROl'lITEKA Hiihner. Plate 1, fig. 20. 



Operopliteia Hiiliii., \\-r/.., ;Vil, 1818. 



Acidalin Tri'its. (in part), ScLiii. Eiir., vi (ii), .'>, 182S. 



Cheimatobia Stepli., Xniiiriicl. Br. Ins., 44, ISUil ; "Cn(., ii, M'J, 1829." 



Laniiliu Diip. (in part),Lep. Franco, viii (v), 3r)8, 1S;{0. 



Chfimalobia .Stepli., 111., iii, 274, IH'.U. 



Lurintia IJoisil. (in part),Geu. Ind., 204, 1840. 



Chiimatohin H.-Srli., Sclini. Eur., iii, 177, 1847. 



Steph., Cat. Brit. Lep., 197, 18r>0. 

 Chimatobia Lcdercr, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wion, 2.">1, IB.'io. 

 Chcimalobia Gncn., Pbal., ii, 258, 13.">7. 



Walk., Li.st Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxiv, llfiO, 18C2. 



The characters of this genus are provisionally like those of the sub- 

 family. The male of our single species may readily he identified by the 

 large, thin, jiartially hyaline, pale ochreous wings, witii the numerous brown, 

 scalloped wings. 



Although usage has, in a degree, sanctioned Stephen's more; euj)hoi)ious 

 name, Hiibner's name was accompanied by a diagnosis, wjiih; Stephen's was, 

 np to 18.'>1, a simple catalogue-name. The law of ])riority compels us iiere, 

 as elsewhere, often against our own will, to reject a useful name fi)r one 

 older and therefore more lawfid. 



Larva. — "'Caterpillars short, slightly attenuated at the extremities, cylin- 

 drical, a little flattened beneath, with distinct lines ; iiead globular, smaller 

 than the prothoracic ring; living on fruit-trees, contained in a folded leaf, from 

 which it eats circular pieces. Chrysalis contained in a small, oval, subter- 

 ranean cocoon." — Guene'e. 



