300 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



The fore-wings are white with a greyish tinge, with three 

 rows of black dots. The fringes are pale grey or white, 

 with pale grey tips. The hind-wings are brownish grey with 

 lighter fringes. 



The larva feeds on hawthorn and apple, and is grey, spotted 

 with black. It feeds gregariously, under a web. 



GENUS CRAMERIA. {HypoiiomcutidcB^ 

 Cramcria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 168(1822?). 

 Cydosia, \Vestwood, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 193 

 (1841) ; Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 523 

 (1854); Guenee, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5), ix. p. 283 

 (1879). 



Antennae simple ; palpi small ; proboscis long ; wings rather 

 long, entire, fore-wings rather narrow, hind -wings broad, but 

 considerably longer than broad ; discoidal cells open. 



A small genus of handsome moths, formerly included with 

 the LithosiidcB. 



CRAMERIA NOCILITELLA. 

 {Plate CLVL, Fig: 9.) 

 Tinea iiobilite/ia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 264, fig. G (1779). 

 Cydosia nobiliiella, Westwood, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 

 Moths, p. 193, 1)1. 24, fig. 2 (1S41); Walker, List Lepid. 

 Ins. Brit. I^dus. ii. p. 524, no. 1 (1854); Guenee, op. cit. 

 p. 286(1879). 

 Cydosia cyanclla, Gucnec, I.e. p. 283 (1870). 



This Moth is a native of the West Indies and South America. 

 It expands about an inch and a quarter. 



The fore-wings are shining steel-blue, each with about 

 fourteen white spots, arranged for the most part in transverse 

 rows of threes ; in addition to these there are also several 

 minute white dots near the tips of the wings. Between the 



