268 THE INSECT WORLD. 
(Abraxas grossulariata), whose caterpillar lives on the red cur- 
rant and gooseberry, and an immense number known as Thorns, 
Carpets, Waves, &c. 
The section of the Pyralina contains the smallest nocturnal 
Lepidoptera, and nearly all those tiny species which flutter round 
our lights in the evening. 
Here are some drawings of a few of the numerous species of 
this section, remarkable for their small size and beauty :—Penthina 

Fig. 268.—Penthina pruniana, 
pruniana, “dia pusiella, Xylopoda fabriciana, Paedisca autumnana, 
Tortrix roborana, Philobacera fagana, Tortrix sorbiana, Antithesia 






























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Fig. 269.—Aédia pusiella. Fig. 270.—Xylopoda fabriciana. 
salicana, Poedisca occultana, Argyrolepia eneana, Sericoris Zinke- 
nana, Sarrothripa revayana, Cochylis francilana, Choreutes dolo- 
sana (Figs. 268 to 281).* 
* Many of these are placed by some authors among the Pyralina, and by others 
among the Tortricina.—Ep. 
