MICROPTERYX. 315 



MicropteryX) Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 185; id. Linn. Ent. v. p. 322 



(1850); Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 42 (1854). 

 Eriocephald) Curtis, Brit. Ent. xvi. pi. 751 (1839); Von 

 Heinemann & Wocke, Schmett. Deutschl. (2), ii. (2), 

 p. 772 (1877); Meyrick, Handb. Brit. Lepid. p. 805 

 (1895). 



This genus is one of the most remarkable of all the 

 Lepidoptera (vide antea, vol. 4, pp. xxxiii. xli. 125, 148). 

 The fore and hind-wings have the same number of nervures ; 

 the wing-cells are bisected, and there is an accessory cell 

 above them ; and the perfect insect is provided with mandibles, 

 but no tongue. 



The moths are small green and purple insects, which 

 frequent flowers. The larvae are footless, and for a long time 

 were passed over by Micro-Lepidopterists as those of Coleoptera. 

 This genus is usually called Eriocephala, the name Microp- 

 teryx being applied to another, which possesses a short 

 proboscis, but no mandibles, and wants the accessory cell 

 above the discoidal cells of the wings. But the type of 

 Micropteryx is M. aureatella (Scopoli), and that of Eriocephala 

 is E. calthella (Linn.), both of which fall under the present 

 genus, for which, of course, the former name must be retained. 



MICROPTERYX AUREATELLA. 



(Plate CLVHL, Fig. n.) 



Tinea aureatella, Scopoli, Ent. Cam. p. 254, no. 662 (1763). 

 Tinea allionella^ Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (2), p. 321, no. 148 



Tinea ammanella, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. viii. fig. 388 (1816). 

 Adela ammanella, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix. (2), p. 125 



Lampronia ammanella, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv, 



p. 362, pi. 41, fig. 2 



