186 THE GENERA OF BRITISH MOTHS. 
Gracilaria Syringella (the Contluent-barred, No. 1). The larva of this elegant little insect feeds on the 
foliage of Lilac, Privet, Ash, &c., and is sometimes so abundant as to be deemed one of our garden pests. The 
species is double-brooded, the first Caterpillars being hatched in June, and the second brood in September. The 
perfect insects of the first brood appear in July, and of the second not till the following May. The species may 
be said to be abundant everywhere. 
The other species are G. Swederella ; G. stigmatella; G. stramineella; G. henidaetylella ; G. falconipe- 
nella; G. semifascia ; G. populetorum ; G. elongella ; G. tringipennclla ; G. omissella ; G. phasianipennclla ; G. 
aurogutella ; G, quadruplella ; G. Ononidis ; and G. imperialella, Several of these are very pretty insects, their 
delicately fringed wings suggesting the idea of variegated feathers, from which fancied resemblance many of the 
specific names have been founded, as phasianipenclla, &c. Some of the species have the lighter marks of the wings 
distinguished by a metallic or golden gloss, as awroguttella, Stigmatella may be at once distinguished by a large 
dash of pale cream-colour, of an arrow-headed form, in the centre of the dark brown fore wings, and oiissella by 
five delicate diagonal streaks of white on each of the fore wings. Three of the species are rare :—First, straiui- 
neclla, which has the front wings pale straw-colow, with brown markings, and has been found in the Lake district, 
and in Stirlingshire. Secondly, Ononidis, which has the front wings dark, with nine silvery spots, and has 
been taken near Cambridge, Pembury, and Mickleham. ‘Thirdly, imperialella, which is, perhaps, the most 
brilliantly tinted of the genus, having the front wings of a bright metallic golden colour, with four silvery 
streaks. This last has been taken at Cambridge, and at Glanville Wootton, Dorset, &e., &e. 
The genus Coriseiwn. The insects assigned to this genus may be well distinguished from those assigned 
to the preceding one by the marked distinction in the structure of the labial palpi, which have the second joint 
furnished with a tuft or pencil of hairs. The front wings are suddenly widened at the fringed edge by a slight 
projection, which gives them a much less pointed character than in the last species, There are three British 
species. 
Coriscium Brongniardellum (the Obscure-barred, No. 2). This species is generally described as having the 
front wings of a grayish brown, with four whitish oblique streaks ; ut the streaks are so broad in many specimens, 
that they give the wings the appearance of having a pale-brown for the ground colour, strongly maculated with a 
deepish gray-brown, It has a minute black hook in the apical fringes. The Caterpillar of this species is pale 
greenish, with dark green along the back, and the head brown. It feeds on the Oak in June and July, and the 
perfect insect appears in July and September. It has appeared recently in abundance near Bristol, and still more 
abundantly at Guildford. The other species are C. cuculipennetlum, which has the front wings pale gray, with 
four dark bands, and C. sulphurellum, which has the fore wings ef a pale swlphureous yellow, more or less 
strongly speckled with brown, 
The genus Orniz., The insects assigned to this genus have the second joint of the labial palpi clothed 
with scales, without hairs. The front wings are slightly concave in front, and much more lancet-shaped at the 
points than in the last species. There are nine British species. 
Orniv guitea (the White-spotted Brown, No. 3). The well-defined angular marks of white on a rich brown 
ground which distinguish the front wings, make this species one of the most easily distinguished of the genus. 
The Caterpillar is yellowish, getting dark green along the back. It feeds in curled Apple leayes, in July, and 
passes the winter in the Chrysalis state, the Moth appearing in the following May and June. It is a common 
insect, and has recently been noticed at Scarborough and other places in great abundance, 
The other species are 0, Avellanella ; O, Devoniella ; 0. A nglicella; O. Betule ; O. scutulatella ; O. 
torquilella ; 0. Scoticella ; and O. Logaunella. Most of these species have the front wings of different tones of 
grayish, more or less speckled with brown, on deeper gray. Loganella, however, has the front wings very dark 
brown, with white streaks and dots; and the rare Devoniella, of which only one specimen has, as yet, been taken, 
near Dawlish, has the front wings of an ochreous tone, with a single dark spot. 
The ninth sub-family of this division of Micro-lepidoptera is that of the Coleophoridae, This group is a 
very distinct one. In the perfect insect the antenne are rather long, have generally a tuft of slender hairs at the 
base, and are pointed forward when the insect is in repose. The wings are of long proportion, and yery distinctly 
