300 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



The fore-wings are white with a greyish tinge, with three 

 rows of black dots. The fringes are pale grey or white, 

 with pale grey tips. The hind-wings are brownish grey with 

 lighter fringes. 



The larva feeds on hawthorn and apple, and is grey, spotted 

 with black. It feeds gregariously, under a web. 



GENUS CRAMERIA. (Hyponomeutidce?) 

 Crameria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 168 (1822?). 

 Cydosia, Westwood, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 193 

 (1841); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 523 

 (1854) ; Guenee, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5), ix. p. 283 

 (1879). 



Antennae simple ; palpi small ; proboscis long ; wings rather 

 long, entire, fore-wings rather narrow, hind -wings broad, but 

 considerably longer than broad ; discoidal cells open. 



A small genus of handsome moths, formerly included with 

 the Lithosiida. - 



CRAMERIA NOEILITELLA. 



(Plate CLVL, Fig. 9.) 



Tinea nobilitella, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 264, fig. G (1779). 

 Cydosia nobilitella^ Westwood, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 

 Moths, p. 193, pi. 24, fig. 2 (1841); Walker, List Lepid. 

 Ins. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 524, no. i (1854); Guenee, op. cit. 

 p. 286 (1879). 

 Cydosia cyanella, Guenee, I.e. p. 283 (1870). 



This Moth is a native of the West Indies and South America. 

 It expands about an inch and a quarter. 



The fore-wings are shining steel-blue, each with about 

 fourteen white spots, arranged for the most part in transverse 

 rows of threes; ,in addition to these there are also several 

 minute white dots near the tips of the wings. Between the 



