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9994. Anterior wings smooth, posteriorly appearing from the 
cilia broader, 18. ELAcntsta. 
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Genus I. BEDELLIA. 
Bepexx1, Sta, Cat. p. 23 (1849). 
Capilli superne ac in fronte hirsuti, epistomio levigato, Ocelli nulli. 
Palpi labiales breviusculi, subporrecti, acuminati. Haustellum nu- 
dum. Antenne alas anteriores longitudine sequantes, tenues, ar- 
ticulo basali elongato, crassiusculo. Ale longe ciliate, anteriores 
anguste, posteriores angustissine ; anteriores: cellula discoidalis 
acuminata, venas duas in costam, venam apicalem fureatam (cujus 
ramus inferior trifidus), venam unicam in marginem posticum 
mittit ; subdorsalis apex obsoletus ; posteriores; vene subcostalis et 
subdorsalis distincte, reliquee obsolete. 
Head above and in front hairy; the face smooth. Ocelli none. 
Labial palpi rather short, almost porrected, pointed. Tongue naked. 
Antenne as long as the anterior wings, slender, the basal joint elongate 
and rather thickened. Wings with long cilia, the anterior narrow, the 
posterior extremely narrow. In the anterior wings the acuminate dis- 
coidal cell emits two veins to the costa, a furcate apical vein (of which 
the lower branch is trifid) and a single vein into the hinder margin; 
the apex of the subdorsal vein is obsolete. In the posterior wings 
the subcostal and subdorsal veins are distinct, the remainder are ob- 
solete. 
Only one species is known in this genus, which, though of 
recent discovery, is already ascertained to occur in Sicily, in Aus- 
tria, and in the south of England. The perfect insect reposes 
with its fore legs drawn in beneath it, and its head but slightly 
elevated from the surface on which it rests. There are two broods 
in the year, one in August and the other in October; the latter 
brood probably hybernates, as Professor Zeller met with the insect 
in the spring. ‘he larva is extremely beautiful, and in motion 
reminds one of a half-looper Noctuina larva; it mines in the 
leaves of Convolvulus arvensis (sometimes, but very rarely, in C. 
Sepium), frequenting only those plants which grow completely in 
the shelter of hedges; it makes large whity-brown blotches in the 
leaves, and is extremely careful to make its excrement outside its 
mine, for this purpose retreating to the opening in the leaf, and 
exserting its anal extremity. The naked angulated pupa is sus- 
pended at the junction of two or three cross silken threads, or 
suspended by threads fastened to the two extremities. 
1. somnulentella, Zcll. Isis, 1847. p. 894; Dougl. Ent, Trans. 
