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222 COLEOPHORID®. 
white, annulated with dark fuscous; the apex white; the sather 
slender basal joint is greyish-fuscous, not tufted. Anterior wings skin- 
ing greyish-fuscous, with paler cilia. Posterior wings grey, with paler 
cilia. 
I have four specimens, taken at West Wickham, at Lewisham, 
and in the Isle of Arran, in June and July. 
36. gryphipennella, Bouché, Naturgeschichte, 131 (1834).— 
rhodophagella, Koll.—lusciniepennella, Zell.; Sta. Alis anticis latius- 
culis, ochreo-griscis (? fere ochreis); antennis niveis nigro-annulatis, 
articulo basali graciliore, ochreo-griseo, non penicillato. Exp. al. 6 lin. 
Head, face, and palpi greyish-ochreous. Antenne snowy-white, 
annulated with black; the slender basal joint greyish-ochreous, not 
tufted. Anterior wings rather broad, gyeyish-ochreous (the latter colour 
prevailing in the 9); the cilia unicolorous with the wing. Posterior 
wings grey, with paler cilia. 
Common among roses in June. ‘The larva feeds in April and 
May on the leaves of the rose, and is sometimes so numerous as 
to be rather a pest in gardens, disfiguring the plants, from the 
bleached appearance of the mined leaves; the case is dirty grey- 
ish-ochreous, slightly curved, strongly serrated on the back; the 
young larva commences feeding in the autumn, but attaches itself 
to the stem on the fall of the leaves, remaining inactive till the 
spring. 
F As this species is one easily to be met with, and being a garden 
insect more exposed to observation than many others, I proceed 
to give a description of the mode of operating of the larva, which. 
has been drawn up by Mr. Shield. ‘The larva, immediately on 
its exclusion from the egg, begins at one and the same time to 
feed and to construct its case; for this purpose it commences to 
gnaw at the side of the midrib so as to effect an entrance between 
the skins of the leaf, having done which it proceeds to devour the 
inner substance of the leaf, thus clearing out a space for its body : 
when it has arrived at the edge of the leaf, or at the point which 
it intends should be the top of its case, it turns round and re- 
traces its steps, cutting off in its progress the mined portion of 
the leaf, and joining the edges together and at the same time 
slightly curving the skins so as to afford it a more spacious habi- 
tation; having arrived at the spot where it originally entered the 
leaf, its ease is perfectly detached, and it either mounts on to the 
leaf or descends by its silken thread to another. When its case 
has become too small for it, it attaches itself to the side of the 
midrib of some leaf and proceeds to operate as in the previous in- 
stance, leaving the old case attached to the leaf and walking away 
with the new one.” It takes the precaution to make its new case 
