PS YCHID/E. 345 



almost clubbed teetb, wbich are densely clotbed with ex- 

 tremely mi]iute hairs ; light brown. Head large, brown, with 

 conspicuously black eyes. Thorax narrow and weak, dark 

 brown, thinly covered with short, loose, grey-brown hair- 

 scales. Abdomen slender, glossy, light brown, with 

 numerous thin tufts of long silvery-white hair-scales situated 

 at the edges of the segments. Fore wings broad, especially so 

 beyond the middle, and very broad toward the hind margin ; 

 costa slightly arched at the base, then straight, but rapidly 

 rounded off towards the apex, which also is rounded in a 

 smooth curve which extends round the hind margin and anal 

 angle ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; semi-transparent, pale 

 brown, without markings, thinly covered with yellowish-grey 

 hair-scales ; nervures thickened, brownish ; costal margin 

 also brown. Hind wings rather long and not very broad, 

 rounded behind ; similar in colour and covering of hair-scales 

 to the forewings, but slightly more transparent. Cilia all 

 short, hairy, brown. Underside exactly like the upper; legs 

 brown. 



Female a maggot-like, cylindrical, or rather long-ovate 

 body, without scales, effective legs, or antennas. Head a 

 mere brown horny mask ; anterior segments also encased in 

 horny chestnut-brown plates ; body brown, ai\d when dry 

 shapeless. No fresh specimen has been available for descrip- 

 tion. Inhabiting the case formed by the larva, which it is 

 said never to quit. (Stephens says: " Legs transparent, ashy- 

 colour." This is curious ! ) 



June and the beginning of July. 



Larva rather slender and cylindrical ; head light brown 

 with the face and eye-lobes edged with whitish ; body pale 

 pink, more whitish in front ; second, third, and fourth seg- 

 ments covered down to the legs with thin, grey, horny plates, 

 which are divided in the middle of the back by a white line, 

 and regularly barred longitudinally with black-brown ; legs 

 well developed, pale brown; abdominal prolegs hardly visible; 



