3o8 ■ Lloyd's natural history. 



towards the tip of the wing. Length of the body, two lines and 

 three-quarters ; of the wings, five lines and a half." 



GENUS GRACILLARIA. {Gracillariidce') 

 Gracillaria, Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 527 (1829); Curtis, Brit. 

 Ent. X. pi. 479 (1S33) ; Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Elaust. iv. 



P- 363 (1835)- 

 Gracilaria, Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 208; id. Linn. Ent. ii. p. 312 



(1847); Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 194 (1854); Von 



Heinemann & Wocke, Schmett. Deutschl. (2) ii (2), 



p. 616 (1817). 

 The Family to which this genus belongs has long antennae 

 and palpi, and long slender wings with very long fringes. The 

 larvae have only fourteen legs. The smooth head, and the 

 absence of a tuft of hair on the second joint of the palpi, dis- 

 tinguish Gracillaria from the allied genera. 



THE small lilac MOTH. GRACILLARIA SVRINGELLA. 



{Plate CLVL, Fig. 8.) 



Tinea syringella, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (2), p. 328, no. 177 



(1794) ; id. op. cit. Suppl. p. 496, no. 84 (179S). 

 Gracillana anastomosis, Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 530 (1S29) ; 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. x. pi. 479 (1S33). 

 Ornix ardecepennelia, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix. (2), p. 205 



(1833)- 

 Gracilaria syringclia, Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tin. p. 198 (1854)3 

 Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 414 (1883) ; Von 

 Heinemann & Wocke, Schmett. Deutschl. (2) ii. (2), 

 p. 624 (1877). 

 The Small Lilac Moth has a wide range in Europe. It 

 expands half an inch. 



The fore-wings are yellowish- white, with the base brown, 



