298 Lloyd's natural history. 



males, and the beautiful golden-green or coppery colour of 

 most of the species. The moths fly by day in woods in 

 spring. 



DE GEER'S long-horned MOTH. ADELA DEGEERELLA. 

 {Flale CLVL, Fig. 5.) 



Tinea degeerella, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 540, no. 286 



(1758); id. Faun. .Suec. p. 360. no. 1393 (1761); Clerck, 



Icones, pi. 12, fig. 3 (1759)- 

 (?) Tinea sidizella, LinnjEu.s, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.), i. (2) p. 896, 



no. 427 (1767). 

 Tinea geerella, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. viii. fig. 130 (iSoi), fig. 



446 (1822). 

 Adela degeerella, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix. (2), p. 131 



(1S33), X. (3) p. 207 (1835); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. 



Haust. iv. p. 230 (1834) ; Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and 



Moths, p. 413, pi. 62, fig. 10 (1883); Stainton, Ins. Brit. 



Tineina, p. 50(1854); Von Heinemann, Schmett. Deutschl, 



(2), ii. (i) p. 77 (1870). 



This species is found throughout Europe and Asia Minor. 

 It expands about three-quarters of an inch. 



The fore-wings are dull golden yellow with dark longitudinal 

 lines in the basal half and in front of the tips. Between these 

 is a golden yellow transverse band, bordered on each side with 

 dark violet, and slightly expanded on the inner margin. The 

 hind-wings are greyish-brown, suffused with violet. The long 

 antennie are, in the male, brownish-violet towards the base and 

 then white; in the female the basal half is dark violet and 

 much thickened, the rest of the antenn;!;^ being white. 



The larva feeds in a flat case on Wood Anemone and other 

 low plants. It is yellowish-white, with a black head and a 



