3 12 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



towards the costa round, and that towards the inner margin 

 triangular. 



The larva mines in the leaves of the dogwood in autumn, 

 and the moth appears in the following June. 



A similar, but much smaller, species, with no transverse band, 

 but with two triangular spots on the costa of the fore-wings, 

 and two others on the inner margin, mines in vine-leaves in 

 Southern Europe. A long and interesting account of its 

 habits, by Godeheu de Riville, the then governor of Malta, was 

 published as long ago as 1750 ; but though the original French 

 paper was afterwards printed in German in 1774, it was not 

 till 1871 that the insect was re-discovered at Carrara by the 

 Hon. Beatrice de Grey ; and the moth was reared and 

 described by Stainton, who had provisionally named it Elachista 

 (?) rivillei in 1854, and reprinted Riville's observations in his 

 " Tineina of Southern Europe," chap, xi., calling the insect 

 The Lost Pleiad." 



This is only another instance of the importance of studying 

 old records, from which much useful but forgotten information 

 can often be gathered by the present generation of naturalists. 



GENUS LITHOCOLLETIS. (LithocolletidcB^ 



Lithocolletis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 423 (1826); 

 Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 264 (1854); id. Nat. Hist. 

 Tineina, ii. p. 2 (1857); Von Heinemann Wocke, 

 Schmett. Deutschl. (2) ii. (2), p. 662 (1877). 



This is an extensive genus of small species with oval fore- 

 wings, and narrow lanceolate hind-wings. There is a tuft ot 

 hair on the head, and the palpi are short, slender, and 

 decumbent. The larvae have fourteen legs, and mine in the 

 leaves of trees. 



