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fringes. The larvse have sixteen legs, and feed on rotten 

 wood under bark, The moths fly in woods in spring. 



HARPELLA GEOFFRELLA. 



(Plate CLVIIL, Fig. 3.) 

 Tinea geoffrella, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.), i. (2), p. 896, 



no. 430 (1767). 

 Alabonia geoffroyella, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 227 



Harpella geoffreUa, Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 152 (1854); 

 Von Heinemann, Schmett. Deutschl. (2) ii. (i), p. 372 

 (1870). 



This beautiful Moth is found in most parts of Central and 

 Southern Europe. It expands about three-quarters of an inch. 



The fore-wings are yellow, clouded with brown in the 

 marginal third, and with two leaden-blue streaks rising from 

 the base. Beyond the middle are two conspicuous triangular 

 pale yellow spots, one on the costa, and the other on the inner 

 margin. The hind-wings are brown. It frequents hedges and 

 woods, where it flies about on sunny mornings. 



GENUS CECOPHORA. ((Ecop/wrida.) 



CEcophora, Latreille, Precis, p. 146 (1796) ; id. Hist. Nat. Crust. 



Ins. iii. p. 417 (1802); xiv. p. 251 (1805); Curtis, Brit. 



Ent. ix. pi. 408 (1832); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. 



p. 227 (1834) ; Zeller, Isis, 1839, P- I 9 I J 1iec Stainton, restr. 

 Dasycerus, Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 524 (1829). 

 Dasycera, Stephens, Cat. Brit. Ins. ii. p. 199 (1829); Stainton, 



Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 155 (1854) ; Von Heinemann, 



Schmett. Deutschl. (2) ii. (i), p. 373 (1870). 



These are pretty little black and yellow moths, with long 

 and moderately broad wings, and the hind-wings with long 

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