LAMPRONIA. 37 
Not uncommon, in the Black Forest, in Perthshire, in ants’ 
nests, in July. 
Genus VIII. LAMPRONIA. 
Lampronia, Zell. L. E. vi. 84 et 180 (1852).—Lampronia p., Step: ; 
Curt.—2speria p., Hib. V.i—TZinea p., Zell. Isis, 1839.—Lampros 
p- et Adela p., Zett. 
Caput postice hirsutum, capillis in vertice ac fronte decumbentibus. 
Ocelli nulli. Antennae alis anterioribus breviores. Palpi maxillares 
5-articulati, plicati. Palpi labiales cylindrici, pilosi; articuli secundi 
apice supra setis paucis instructo. Haustellum subnullum. Ale 
anteriores oblongo-ovate: e cellula discoidali ven 5 in marginem 
costalem prodeunt ; posteriores ovate, ciliis breviusculis. 
Head hairy behind, on the crown and in front the hairs decumbent. 
Ocelli none. Antenne moderately thick, not pectinated or ciliated, 
shorter than the anterior wings. Maxillary palpi five-jointed, folded. 
Labial palpi cylindric, hairy; the apex of the second joint furnished 
above with a few bristles. ‘Tongue hardly perceptible. Anterior wings 
oblong-oval. Posterior wings oval, with rather short cilia. From the 
discoidal cell of the anterior wings, five veins run into the costa, 
The perfect insects of this genus are gaily coloured, and fly freely 
during the sunshine. The larvee of only two of them are known, 
L. prelatella and L. Rubielia: these differ so much in habit that 
they would hardly be expected to occur in the same genus. That 
of L. prelatella feeds under the leaves of the wild Strawberry, in 
a flat case, shaped rather like the figure 8, which it applies by one 
of its flat sides to the under side of the leaf; it does not devour 
the leaf at the spot where it is applied, but takes the precaution 
to bring with it to its place of concealment a piece cut off from 
the edge of the leaf, or of some neighbouring leaf, which it then 
fastens to the under side of its case and consumes it at leisure; 
when the piece of leaf it has in store is large, the case is com- 
pletely concealed between it and the leaf under which it reposes. 
This peculiarity in the habit of this larva was detected by Mr. 
Douglas, who found the larve at West Wickham Wood, in Sep- 
tember. L. Rubella, in the larva state, bores down the stem of 
the young shoots of the Raspberry, as recorded by Bjerkander in 
in the ‘Nova Acta Holmie,’ in 1781, and recently observed by 
Messrs. Doubleday, Logan, and Westwood. ‘The larva of J. 
gua eiuunaialie feeds on the rose, but its habits have not yet 
een observed. 
