MICROPTERYX. 315 



Micropteryx^ Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 185; id. Linn. Ent. v. p. 322 

 (1S50); Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 42 (1854). 



Eriocephala, Curtis, Brit. Ent. xvi. pi. 751 (1839); Von 

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

 p. 772 (1877); Meyrick, Handb. Brit. Lepid. p. 805 



(1895). 



This genus is one of the most remarkable of all the 

 Lepidoptera {vide antea, vol. 4, pp. xxxiii. xli. 125, 148). 

 The fore and hind-wings have the same number of nervures ; 

 the wing-cells are bisected, and there is an accessory cell 

 above them ; and the perfect insect is provided with mandibles, 

 but no tongue. 



The moths are small green and purple insects, which 

 frequent flowers. The larvae are footless, and for a long time 

 were passed over by Micro-Lepidopterists as those of Cohoptcra. 



This genus is usually called En'occphala, the name Micivp- 

 teryx being applied to another, which possesses a short 

 proboscis, but no mandibles, and wants the accessory cell 

 above the discoidal cells of the wings. But the type of 

 Micropteryx is J/, anreatella (Scopoli), and that of Eriocephala 

 is E. calthella (Linn.), both of which fall under the present 

 genHS, for which, of course, the former name must be retained. 



MICROPTERYX AUREATELLA. 

 {Plate CLVIIL, Nq: II.) 



Tinea aureatella, Scopoli, Ent. Carn. p. 254, no. 662 (1763). 

 Tinea allionella, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (2), p. 321, no. 148 



(•794)- 

 Tinea ammattella, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. viii. fig. 388 (1816). 

 Adela anwianella, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix. (2), p. 125 



(1833)- 

 Lampronia ammanella^ Stephens, III. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. 

 p. 362, pi. 41, fig. 2 (1835;. 



