3ot) tXOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



fringes. The antennae are thickened towards the base, and 

 hairy on tlie back ; t4ie palpi are up-curved, and the tips of the 

 wings are rounded. 



The larvDS have sixteen legs, and feed on rotten wood 

 under bark. 



THE LEAST YELLOW UNDER-WING. CECOPHORA SULPHURELLA, 



{Hate CLV/IL, Fig. 4.) 

 Alucita siilphurella., Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 670, no. 19 (1775). 

 Tinea coniutella., id. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 492, no. 63 (1798). 

 Tinea orhonella, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. viii. fig. 313 (18 16?). 

 Q^cofhora sulphurella^ Curtis, Brit. Ent. ix. pi. 408 (1832) ; 



Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 228 (1834). 

 Dasycera sulphurella, Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 154 (1854) ; 

 Von Heinemann, Schmett. Deutschl. (2) ii. (i), p. 373 

 (.870). 

 The Least Yellow Under-wing is found throughout the 

 greater part of Europe. It expands seven lines and a half. 



The fore-wings are olive-brown, dusted with yellow, especially 

 towards the hind margin. From the base run two short yellow 

 longitudinal streaks, and there is a small pale yellow spot on 

 the costa, and a larger triangular spot of the same colour 

 beyond the middle of the inner margin, llie hind-wings are 

 pale ochre-yellow, with dark brown tips. 



The larva lives in decayed wood. It is greyish-white, spotted 

 with blackish, with a reddish-brown head and second segment. 



GENUS ERETMOCERA. {Tirupgeriidce.) 

 Eretniocera, Zeller, Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. 1852, j). 96 



(1854) ; Walsingham, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond. 1881, p. 271 ; 



1889, \). 19. 

 Exodoniorpha, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxix. p. 833 



(1S64). 



