222 COLEOPHORID^. 



white, annulated with dark fuscous ; the apex white ; the rather 

 slender basal joint is greyish-fuscous, not tufted. Anterior wings sliin- 

 ii/ff greyish-fuseous, with paler cilia. Posterior wings grey, witli paler 

 cilia. 



I have four specimens, taken at West AA^ickham, at Lewisham, 

 and in the Isle of Arran, in June and July. 



36. gryphipennella, Bouche, Naturgeschichte, 131 (1831). — 

 rliodoplifujeUa, KoU. — iHncinlcppennella, Zell. ; Sta. Alls anticis lalius- 

 cnlis, ochreo-griseis ( $ fere ochreis) ; antennis Jiiveis nigro-anuHlafis, 

 articulo basali graciliore, ochreo-griseo, non penicillato. Exp. al. 6 lin. 



Head, face, and palpi greyish-ochreous. Antenna; suowy-wli'de, 

 annulated with black; the slender hasal joint greyish-ochreous, not 

 tufted. Anterior wings rather Jjroad, greyish-ochrecnis (the latter colour 

 prevailing in the $ ) ; the cilia unicolorous with the wing. Posterior 

 wings grey, with paler cilia. 



Common among roses in June. The Lu-va feeds in April and 

 IMay on the leaves of the rose, and is sometimes so numerous as 

 to be rather a pest in gardens, disfiguring the plants, from the 

 bleached appearance of the mined leaves ; the case is dirty grey- 

 ish-ochreous, slightly curved, strongly serrated on the back; the 

 young larva commences feeding in the autumn, but attaches itself 

 to the stem on the fall of the leaves, remaining inactive till the 

 spring. 



As this species is one easily to be met with, and being a garden 

 insect more exposed to observation than many others, I proceed 

 to give a description of the mode of operating of the larva, which 

 lias been drawn up by Mr. Shield. " The larva, immediately on 

 its exclusion from the egg, begins at one and the same time to 

 feed and to construct its case ; for this purpose it commences to 

 gnaw at the side of tlie midrib so as to effect an entrance between 

 the skins of the leaf, having done which it proceeds to devour the 

 inner substance of the leaf, thus clearing out a space for its body : 

 when it has arrived at the edge of the leaf, or at the point which 

 it intends should be the top of its case, it turns round and re- 

 traces its steps, cutting off in its progress the mined portion of 

 the leaf, and j(jining the edges together and at the same time 

 slightly curving the skins so as to ailbrd it a more spacious habi- 

 tation; having arrived at the spot where it originally entered the 

 leaf, its case is perfectly detached, and it either mounts on to the 

 leaf or descends by its silken thread to another. When its case 

 has become too small for it, it attaches itself to the side of the 

 niidrib of some leaf and proceeds to operate as in the previous in- 

 stance, leaving the old case attached to the leaf and walking away 

 with the new one." It takes the precaution to make its new case 



