140 GELECHIDiE. 



h.irdly denticulate. Tongue of moderate length, clothed with scales. 

 Maxillary palpi very short. Laljial palpi of niotlerate length, reflexed ; 

 the second joint long, toUh appressed scales ; the third joint short, tvith 

 appressed scales, the extreme apex only being smooth and pointed. Ante- 

 rior wings elongate ; posterior wings trapezoidal, deeply emaryinate be- 

 low the apex, with long cilia. In the anterior wings the apical vein is 

 trijid, two branches running into the costa and one into the hinder 

 margin, below it are four veins from the discoidal cell. In the pos- 

 terior wings the simple apical vein terminates in the prolonged apex ; 

 below it are two veins from the transverse vein ; the costal cell termi- 

 nates before the middle of the wing. 



But few species (only four British) are yet known in this 

 genus ; but from the extremely retired habits of the ])erfect in- 

 sects of those that have been met with^ it is by no means impro- 

 bable that several otlier species may hereafter be detected. Pa- 

 rasia Lappella was a rarity, and but in few collections, and had been 

 bred by no English collector, at the time that the authoress of the 

 ' Episodes of Insect Life ' published a notice of the habits of the 

 larva. Parasia CarfineUa was ent'irelij ntil-iiown till Mr. Douglas 

 bred it in ahnndance from the heads of Curllna vulgaris, gathered 

 at Eolkstonc, in December. 



The mode of feeding of the larvse of these species is very dif- 

 ferent; both feed, it is true, in the heads of Composite plants, 

 but that of Lajipella feeds on Arctiuvi Lappa, eating through the 

 seeds (precisely resembling in habit tlie larva of GeJechia h'lfrac- 

 tella), whereas the larva of CarlineUa, feeding in Carlina vulgaris, 

 leaves the seeds untouched and devours the receptacle below the 

 seeds. The habits of the larva3 of P. Metzneriella and neuroptella 

 are not yet known. 



rr^-TTT- I. Lappella, Linn. S. N. (10) 537. 260 (1758); Fab.; Loew, 



^;— E. Z. ISH. pi i. f. 19-21. 1842. p. 257; Zell. E. Z. 1842. p. 259; 

 ^ '^ Dougl. — silacea. Haw. ; Curt. — ■silacella, Step. — astivella, Zell. Isis, 

 1839. Alis anticis ochreis, macula ol)longa costfe basali, macula parva 

 ante, maculaque pone medium cost.!?, brunneis, margine postico brun- 

 neo-sufi"uso, venis nonnullis griseis, punctis tribus disci nigris. Exp. al. 

 8 hn. 



Head and face ochreous. Palpi pale ochrcous, beneath darker. An- 

 tenntc fuscous, with darker annulations. Anterior wings ochreous, with 

 a long patch at the base of the costa, a small spot on the costa before 

 and one beyond the middle, brownish ; the hinder margin is suifused 

 with pale brownish; severed of the veins appear grey ; on the disc are 

 three blacli- spots (one on the fold before the middle, one beyond it nearer 

 the costa, and one at the end of the discoidal cell) ; cilia pale ochreous, 

 darker near the hinder margin. Posterior wings grey, with ochreous- 

 grey cilia. 



