226 ELACHISTID^. 



g g g. Anterior wings smootli, posteriorly appearing from the 

 cilia broader. 13, Elaciiista. 

 e e e. Head rouerh behind. 14. Tisciieeia. 



Genus I. BEDELLIA. 



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Bedellia, Sta. Cat. p. 23 (1849). 



CapUli siiperne ac in fronte Jdrsutl, epistomio Ipevigato. Ocelli nulli. 

 Palpi labiales breviusciili, subporrccti, acuminati. Haustelluni nu- 

 dum. Antennae alas anteriores longitudine a^quantes, tciuies, ar- 

 ticulo basali elongate, crassiusculo. Aki; longc ciliatic, anteriores 

 angustac, posterio7-es angnstissbna ; anteriores : cellula discoidalis 

 acuminata, venas duas in costam, venam apicalem fureatam (cujus 

 ramus inferior trifidus), venam unieam in marginem posticum 

 mittit ; subdorsalis apex obsoletus ; posteriores : vense subcostalis et 

 subdorsalis distinctse, reliquiB obsoletse. 



Head above and in front hairy ; the face smooth. Ocelli none. 

 Labial palpi rather short, almost porrected, pointed. Tongue naked. 

 Antennas as long as the anterior wings, slender, the basal joint elongate 

 and rather thickened. Wings with long cilia, the anterior narrow, the 

 posterior exlremdy narrow. In the anterior wings the acuminate dis- 

 coidal cell emits two veins to the costa, a furcate apical vein (of which 

 the lower branch is trifid) and a single vein into the hinder margin ; 

 the apex of the subdorsal vein is obsolete. In the posterior wings 

 the subcostal and subdorsal veins are distinct, the remainder are ob- 

 solete. 



Only one species is known in this genus, which, though of 

 recent discovery, is already ascertained to occur in Sicily, in Aus- 

 tria, and in the south of England. The perfect insect reposes 

 with its fore legs drawn in beneath it, and its head but slightly 

 elevated from the surface on which it rests. There are two broods 

 in the year, one in August and the other in October ; the latter 

 brood probably hybernates, as Professor Zcller met with the insect 

 in the spring. The larva is extremely beautiful, and in motion 

 reminds one of a half-loopcr Nociu'ina larva ; it mines in the 

 leaves of Convolindus arvensis (sometimes, but very rarely, in C. 

 Sepium), frequenting only those plants which grow completely in 

 the shelter of hedges ; it makes large whiiy-brown blotches in the 

 leaves, and is extremely careful to make its excrement outside its 

 mine, for this purpose retreating to the opening in the leaf, and 

 cxserting its anal extremity. The naked angulaied pupa is sus- 

 pended at the junction of two or three cross silken threads, or 

 suspended by threads fastened to the two extremities. 



1. somnulentella, Zcll. Isis, 1847. p. 894; Dougl. Eut. Trans. 



