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to 6^ (J , or say 15% are ? $ . I have made enquiries and fail to find that 

 the larva was seen on apple, whilst everyone I have interviewed on the 

 subject noticed the cherry and plum trees being attacked; still, the 

 larvae may have fed on apple in places not visited by me, and as you 

 say, 'but surely they also fed on apple,' I presume they do, and I will next 

 year keep a look out for them and watch closely what they do feed on. 



" The markings of the males vary very much ; I have a series of 6 which 

 are wonderfully unlike each other ; in fact, H. defoliaria varies in its 

 markings just as much as C. Bruceata or E. Somniaria do, and some are 

 beautiful by the very reason of their wonderful contrast to the type — 

 while one has the bands nearly black, another has apparently no median 

 band, but is thoroughly suffused. 



" The females are fond of climbing to the top of the fence rails and sun- 

 ning themselves. They have very long legs, it seems to me, so much so 

 that they have trouble in walking. Most of the imagos bred by me 

 were females." 



The caterpillars sent me by Mr. Danby were received at Ottawa on 

 June 28th, and were full grown. They pupated in a few days, most of 

 them on the surface of the ground, but some a short distance beneath. A 

 few specimens were parasitized by the larvae of a Tachinid fly. The first 

 moth, a male, emerged on November 27th, so that the pupal stage lasted 

 almost five months, The pupa is smooth, dark reddish-brown, nearly ^ 

 of an inch in length, and has the last segment terminated by a stout spine. 

 The moth is of a dull ochre-brown hue, expanding i^ inches, and has the 

 upper wings dotted and crossed diagonally by two dark waved bands ; the 

 space between these two bands is pale and bears a dark discal spot ; 

 the lower wings are paler than the upper, and like them sprinkled with 

 brown dots and have a dark spot near the middle. The female moth is 

 brown with two rows of conspicuous spots down the back. The wings 

 in this sex are almost entirely aborted. 



The occurrence of this insect at Victoria is worthy of note, as in Eng- 

 land it is one of the worst orchard pests. In England, however, it is 

 chiefly an apple pest, and it is rather strange that it has not been found 

 on apple trees in British Columbia. Miss E. A. Ormerod says as to the 

 food of the Mottled Umber Moth : — " The caterpillars are very abundant, 

 and very injurious to the leafage of various kinds of fruit and forest trees, 

 as oak, lime, etc. They have been especially noted as feeding at times on 

 unripe cherries, gnawing away one side of the fruit." (" Manual of Injuri- 



