CHOREUTIS. 293 



except the Geo metres. They differ much in habits. The true 

 " Clothes-Moths " feed on woollen fabrics, and form cases for 

 themselves ; but others form cases of the vegetable substances 

 on which they feed, and a great number of Tinea mine in leaves. 

 They are divided into a considerable number of well-marked 

 Families, representatives of several of which are described or 

 figured in the present work. 



GENUS CHOREUTIS. (Choreutidce^ 



Anthophila, Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 471 (1812), nee Hiibner. 

 Choreutis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 373 (1826?); Von 

 Heinemann, Schmett. Deutschl. (2), ii. (i), p. 2 (1870). 



The Family to which this genus belongs is of somewhat 

 doubtful position, being classed by some authors with the 

 Pyrales, and by others with the Tinece. It includes small, 

 dull-coloured moths, with rather stout bodies and broad wings, 

 with short fringes. The palpi are ascending. The larvae have 

 sixteen legs, and feed among leaves spun together by a web ; 

 the pupae are enclosed in cocoons. The moths fly by day, and 

 when at rest hold their wings partly open. The genus 

 Choreutis has long bristles on the under-surface of the two 

 first joints of the palpi, the last joint being slender and 

 pointed. 



THE SILVER-DOTTED NETTLE- TAP. CHOREUTIS MYLLERANA. 



(Plate CLVL, Fig, 2.) 

 Pyralis myllerana, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (2), p. 277, no. 147 



Tortrix angustana, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. vii. fig. 204(1803?). 

 Anthophila mylleri, Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 472, no. 5 (1812); 



Curtis, Brit Ent. vii. pi. 320 (1830). 



Anthophila punctosa, Haworth, op. cit. p. 472, no. 6 (1812). 

 Choreutes scintilulalis, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. x. (3), p. 33 



(1835). 



