152 ADELA DB GEERELLA. 



and constantly enters houses. As insects generally 

 do, it flies to the window, and scuds unceasingly up 

 and down the panes of glass, just as if it wished to 

 make itself as conspicuous as possible. 



The last of our moths is the beautiful Long-horn, 

 for a figure of which see plate H, fig. 4. Another 

 Long-horn Moth, the Green Adela, is shown on 

 plate C, fig. 10. It is nearly as common as the last- 

 mentioned insect. 



It is a horrid name, for its agricultural associa- 

 tions are so potent, that the idea conveyed to the 

 "mind by the term " Long-horn " is that of a huge 

 bovine quadruped, with sleek solid sides telling of 

 oil-cake, with horns that are long enough to spike 

 four men at once, two on each horn, and with a 

 ponderous tread that rivals that of the hippopota- 

 mus. 



Whereas, our little moth is the epitome of every 

 fragile, fairy-like beauty, and seems fitter for fairy 

 tale, "once upon a time," than for this nineteenth 

 century. Its "horns," as the antennae are called, 

 are wondrously long and slender. I have just taken 

 measurement of one of these moths, and find that 

 the body and head together are barely a quarter of 

 an inch in length, while the antennae aro an inch 

 and a quarter long. It is hardly possible to conceive 

 any living structure more delicately slender than 

 their antennae. The moth delights in sunny glades, 

 as so sunny a creature ought to do ; it sits on a leaf, 



