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bred out from a dark greenish-black caterpillar, yellowish-green ventrally 

 and laterally and on the dorsal surface of the last two or three abdominal 

 segments. Head dark brown with two black bands. Prothorax deep 

 black. The caterpillar of Archips podana So. is almost an inch long 

 when fully grown. The coloui' before the last moult is gr(MMiish-l)lue, 

 with four spots of lighter colour on the tergum of each segment. Head 

 reddish-brown, 



Toiirix riheana was bred from a caterpillar characterised by the size 

 and prominence of the dorsal spots, these being white and the rest of 

 the body pale green. Head with three or four longitudinal brown stripes. 

 This moth was first hatched out on June 3rd. 



Coleophora lufipennella Z., is quite common on the oak, the cater- 

 pillar living in a tube and boring under the epidermis of the leaf — this 

 resulting in a dead brown patch on the surface. The caterpillar of 

 another Tineid moth, Lithocolletis sp., was found to be very common 

 during June, many leaves being covered with areas of dead epidermis 

 due to the mining of the caterpillar. 



Gypnosoma dealbana Frol., I am told, has not previously been recorded 

 from the oak. 



By roUing up the leaves and eating the area so enclosed, T. viridana 

 causes considerable damage. I was never successful in finding the eggs 

 in the spring, but judging from the position of the young caterpillars 

 on the early buds of the oak, the eggs themselves cannot be very far 

 from these buds, if not actually on them. I believe the eggs of T. viri- 

 dana have never been observed and described. The larvae are full 

 grown in three to four weeks and pupate under the rolled up leaves. 

 By the 4th of June almost all the caterpillars of T. viridana on isolated 

 oaks in the park had pupated, those on the Ham Cross Plantation being 

 slightly later. The period of pupation lasts roughly a fortnight and by 

 the 15th of June many moths were found hidden in the lower branches 

 of the oaks. 



About this time I observed on the trees a considerable number of 

 minute pale coloured caterpillars of the leaf-rolling type. The original 

 brood of T. viridana had so far as is known all by now pupated, and 

 the question arose, Is this a second brood of T. viridana. The cater- 

 pillars had the characteristic appearance of those of T. viridana and their 

 occurrence when the original brood had apparently all pupated seems 

 to support the idea of a second brood. 



Moths kept in captivity were found in copulation and one female 

 later laid eggs on the back of an oak leaf, about June 12th. The eggs 



