THE MICKO-LEPIDOPTERA OF GUERNSEY. 269 



The Adelas or Long Horns are singularly beautiful 

 insects, remarkable for the enormous length of their antennae 

 in some instances five or six times the length of the body. 



The family of Hyponomeutidce are injurious insects. 

 Hyponomeuta padella, the little Ermine Moth, in the larval state 

 is terribly destructive, sometimes demolishing the foliage of 

 whole hedges and covering them with a mass of silken threads 

 and webs of remarkable size and toughness. These webs, 

 when examined, will be found to contain a vast number of 

 caterpillars. 



The Coleophoridce are a family of small but pretty insects, 

 having case-making larva?. These cases are usually of a 

 brown colour and look like minute cigars sticking up on end 

 on the surface of the leaf ; if pulled off a larva will be found 

 within. 



To the NepticulidcB belong the smallest and most brilliant 

 examples of British Lepidoptera. Most of them are so tiny 

 that the aid of a lens is required to set them when captured, 

 and it is a most difficult matter to pin them without destroying 

 them. The larva? of these insects look more like tiny maggots 

 than caterpillars, and burrow into the substance of the leaves, 

 eating the parenchyma and forming the wavy lines so often 

 noticed on the leaves of various plants. The one on the 

 bramble leaf is usually very conspicuous, and is the work of 

 Nepticula aurella. To the unassisted eye this little Moth is 

 a mere brown speck. Placed under the microscope we see 

 the two upper wings are of a rich golden brown, becoming 

 deep purple beyond the middle, across which runs a band of 

 burnished gold ; the under wings are fringed with silvery 

 scales. 



The species mentioned in the following list were mostly 

 captured on the wing, very few of them being bred. If sys- 

 tematic breeding of larva? were undertaken many additions 

 would doubtless be made. 



Three species have not been recorded for Great Britain, 

 viz., Tortrix pronubana, Hb. ; Adela violella, Tr. and Fumea ? 

 lapidicella, Zell. Two specimens of the first were captured 

 this autumn (1898) by the Eev. F. E. Lowe, F.E.S., the 

 others by myself several years ago. I have added a few 

 species, which I myself have not seen or taken, from the 

 list of Lepidoptera in " Ansted's Channel Islands," these 

 are marked Ansted. I have also placed the letter A 

 against all the other species mentioned in his list. One 

 species, Crambus furcatellus, recorded in Ansted, I have 



