276 COMMON BRITISH INSECTS. 



glue or cement. Taken collectively, the words may 

 either signify a stone-cementer, or something that is 

 inlaid or cemented with stone. Perhaps the colouring 

 of the wings may have given some motion of a mosaic 

 wall, which is made of small cubes of stone cemented 

 together. 



A FIGURE of one of the prettiest of these very 

 pretty insects is given herewith, very much magnified. 



Lithocolletes corylella. 



The scientific name of this insect is Lithocolletes corylella. 

 No popular name has been given to it, so I shall call 

 it the BROWN DOLLY, because the brown markings on 

 the white wings bear, when viewed from base to tip, a 

 certain resemblance to a rude wooden doll. It is really 

 a very pretty insect. Viewed with the naked eye, it 

 is so small that the shape of the markings is wholly 

 invisible, and all that can be seen is a white surface pro- 

 fusely sprinkled with brown, or a brown surface spotted 

 with white. But, when the magnifying glass is brought 

 to bear upon it, the markings are seen to be very clearly 



