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fringes. The larvas have sixteen legs, and feed on rotten 

 wood under bark. The moths fly in woods in spring. 



HARPELLA GEOFFRELLA. 



{Plate CLVIIL, Fig. 3.) 



Tinea geoffrelia, Linnaeus, vSyst. Nat. (cd. xii.), i. (2), p. 896, 



no. 430 (1767). 

 Alabonia geoffroyella, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 227 



(1834). 

 Harpel/a gcoffrclla, Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 152 (1854); 

 Von Heinemann, Schraett. Deutschl. (2) ii. (i), p. 372 

 (1870). 



This beautiful Moth is found in most parts of Central and 

 Southern Europe. It expands about three-quarters of an inch. 



The fore-wings are yellow, clouded with brown in the 

 marginal third, and with two leaden-blue streaks rising from 

 the base. Beyond the middle are two conspicuous triangular 

 pale yellow spots, one on the costa, and the other on the inner 

 margin. The liind-wings are brown. It frequents hedges and 

 woods, where it flies about on sunny mornings. 



GENUS CECOPHORA. {Gtcop/ioriche.) 



QZaphora^ Latreille, Precis, p. 146 (1796) ; id. Hist. Nat. Crust. 



Ins. iii. p. 417 (1802); xiv. p. 251 (1805); Curtis, Brit. 



Ent. ix. pi. 408 (1832); Slej)hens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. 



p. 227 (1834) ; Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 191, ncc Stainton, restr. 

 Dasycencs, Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 524 (1829). 

 Dasycera, Stephens, Cat. Brit. Ins. ii. p. 199 (1829); Stainton, 



Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 155 (1S54) ; Von Heinemann, 



Schmett. Deutschl. (2) ii. (i), p. 373 (1S70). 



These are i)retty little black and yellow moths, with long 



and moderately broad wings, and the hind-wings with lon<^ 



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