154 LEPIDOPTERA. 



palpi, the antennae and legs ; the legs being longer than the ' 

 antennae, for which I at first mistook them. 



" The antennse were not symmetrical in the specimen ; 

 which I examined, that on the left side being close to the * 

 leg cases, that on the right side lying nearly across the centre ; 

 of the wing. 



" Below the eyes and above the palpi appears a brown i 

 knob, which may possibly represent the tongue ; it bears | 

 numerous bristles ; immediately beneath it are two large j 

 brown projections, the use of which I am utterly at a loss I 

 to conjecture ; they expand towards the tips, which are | 

 scalloped obliquely. i 



" Between the eyes, but above them, is a slight protuber- | 

 ance or beak, which is nearly transpai-ent ; above it are again j 

 some strong bristles. j 



" On the back a slender semi-transparent membrane pro- ] 

 jects upwards from the first abdominal segment. I 



'* The head is very clearly separated from the thorax, and j 

 between the two is a neck or collar." 1 



This pupa unfortunately died, and I did not myself succeed > 

 in rearing any specimens of the genus 31icropteryx ; but , 

 Mr. T. Wilkinson, of Scarborough, was more fortunate, \ 

 having bred Microjyter.yx unimaculellaj Salopiella and Sub- \ 

 pnrpurella. 



When on the Continent in September I called on Herr ; 

 Kaltenbach at Aix-la-Chapelle and saw the specimens Avhich j 

 he had bred from nut leaves ; they were 3Iicropteryx Fas- j 

 tuosella. The larvae he finds in the scarcely expanded hazel i 

 leaves about the middle of April. i 



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