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marbled with white. There is a brown blotch on the inner 

 margin near the base, and there are three oblique brown bands. 

 The tips of the wings are brownish, with two whitish spots on 

 the costa. The hind-wings are grey, with paler cilia. 



The larva mines the leaves of privet, ash and lilac, and is 

 whitish with a light-brown head. 



GENUS COLEOPHORA. (Coleophoridce^] 

 Coleophora, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 2 (1810?); Zeller, Isis, 1839, 

 p. 191 (1839); id. Linn. Ent. iv. p. 191 (1849); Stainton, 

 Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 208 (1854); Von Heinemann & 

 Wocke, Schmett. Deutschl. (2) ii. (2), p. 530 (1877). 

 Porrectaria, Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 533 (1829); Stephens, 111. 

 Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 284 (1835). 



This is a large genus of small moths, with long and narrow 

 pointed wings, and very long fringes. The antennae are ex- 

 tended forward in repose, and have frequently a tuft of hair at 

 the base beneath. The hind tibiae are hairy, with two pairs of 

 spurs beyond the middle. 



The larvae have sixteen legs, and live in small cases on their 

 food-plants ; they feed on leaves or seeds. 



The following species is the type of the genus. 



THE GOOSE-FEATHER MOTH. COLEOPHORA ANATIPENNELLA. 



(Plate CLVIII., Fig. 5.) 



Tinea anatipennella, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. viii.fig. 186 (1801). 

 Ornix anatipennella^ Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix (2), p. 211 



(1833) ;x. (3), p. 217(1835). 

 Porrectaria anatipenmlla^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. 



p. 285 (1834). 

 Coleophora anatipennella, Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina p. 215 



(1854) ; Von Heinemann & Wocke, Schmett. Deutschl. 



(2) ii. (2), p. 583 (1877), 



