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except the Geonidra:. Tliey differ much in habits. The true 

 " Clothes-Moths " feed on wooUen fabrics, and form cases for 

 themselves ; but others form cases of the vegetable substances 

 on which they feed, and a great number of Tinecz mine in leaves. 

 They are divided into a considerable number of well-marked 

 Families, representatives of several of which are described or 

 figured in the present work. 



GExNUS CHOREUTIS. {Choreutidcu.) 

 Afifliophiia, Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 471 (181 2), 7iec Hilbner. 

 C/ioreietis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 373 (1826?); Von 

 Heinemann, Schmett. Deutschl. (2), ii. (i), p. 2 (1S70). 



The Family to which this genus belongs is of somewhat 

 doubtful position, being classed by some authors with the 

 Pyrales, and by others with the Tincce. It includes small, 

 dull-coloured moths, with rather stout bodies and broad wings, 

 with short fringes. The palpi are ascending. The larvre have 

 sixteen legs, and feed among leaves spun together by a web ; 

 the pup?e are enclosed in cocoons. The moths fly by day, and 

 when at rest hold their wings partly open. The genus 

 Choreutis has long bristles on the under-surface of the two 

 first joints of the palpi, the last joint being slender and 

 pointed. 



THE SILVER. DOTTED NETTLE-TAP. CHOREUTIS MYLLERANA. 



{Plate CLVL, Fig. 2.) 



Pyralis myJkrana, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (2), p. 277, no. 147 



(1794)- 

 Tortrix angustana, Hi.ibner, Eur. Schmett. vii. fig. 204(1803?). 

 Anthophila mylleri, Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 472, no. 5 (18 12); 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. vii. pi. 320 (1830). 

 Anthophila punctosa, Haworth, op. cit. p. 472, no. 6 (1S12). 

 Choreiites scintilulalis, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. x. (3), p. 33 



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