162 THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



CERIOSTOMA SCITELLA, 



mining the hawthorn, the apple, the pear, blotching the 

 leaves and making our hedgerows wither before their time. 

 How exquisite is the soft gray wing of this species, mottled, 

 fretted, banded, and streaked, with a golden tinge around 

 the large violet eye, like a microscopic Peacock Butterfly, 

 but far more beautiful. This well deserves careful mounting. 



But as my space is limited, I must not enumerate many 

 more of these moths, for it is only to give an impulse to 

 the study of them that I write so much, and to suggest 

 them as new and interesting objects for the microscope. 



There are no less than seventy species of Lithocolletis 

 whose brilliant gilded or silvered wings have given them 

 the appellation of the Humming Birds of the Lepidoptera, 

 and it will well repay any trouble to obtain the following 

 species. 



L1THECOLLETIS SYLVELLA. 



Abundant on the maple and found near London, Ten- 

 terden, Guildford, Oxford, Bristol, and Shrewsbury. The 

 pure white wings have ochreous fans, bent into angles, and 

 edged with jet-black scales. 



LITHOCOLLETIS SCHREBEEELLA. 



The larvae puckers the under side of elm leaves, and the 

 perfect insect flits to and fro, with bright-reddish, orange- 

 coloured wings, striped with silver glittering bars, and with 

 a pair of silver dots. These are very abundant near London 

 and Oxford in May and in August. 



LITHOCOLLETIS TRIFASCIELLA. 



Whoever cares to find this, need but observe the lower 

 leaves of the honeysuckle shoots in April, all puckered 

 aslant -and the under side mined. Three broods in the 

 year ;does this honeysuckle feed, and around it will flit the 

 moth, with reddish-yellow wings and white bands, deeply 

 bordered with black scales. This also is common near 

 London, 



