im.] 273 



wing cases and all. On the abdomen are four rows of narrow, transverse, pale 

 brown marks, the remnants, as I read them, of the larval bands. In the subdorsal 

 rows each segment has two marks, one about its centre, the other on its extreme 

 posterior edge ; in the spiracular row the central mark is absent, and only the one 

 on the posterior edge present. These marks, however, must melt away at some time 

 or other, for they are not to be found in the exuviae. The anal extremity ends in a 

 large curved process, which divides into four hooklike bodies. On the back of the 

 segment next the anal are also a pair of curved processes. With such an arrange- 

 ment the case is hold firmly in position, whilst the moth is escaping. — J. H. Wood, 

 Tarrington, Ledbury: August 22nd, 1891. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OP EUPCECILIA PALLIDANA. 

 BY EUSTACE R. BANKES, M.A., F.E.S. 



The welcome discovery of the larva of Eapcecilia jyallidnun iu 

 seed heads of Jasione montana is chronicled by the E-ev. C. R. Digby 

 iu Eut. Mo. Mag., xxiv, p. 89, but as no descriptiou of the larva has 

 been published, I append one, drawn up on July 30th from a few 

 full-fed examples. 



Length, 4—5 lines. Head and 2nd segment (of which the pos- 

 terior part is the darker) vary from brown to blackish-brown. The 

 body, which is short and obese, stoutest in the middle, and getting 

 narrower towards the head and tail, is of a beautiful rosy-pink with a 

 greenish tinge. The only conspicuous part of the anal plate is the 

 central area, which is brown or blackish-brown. There are no visible 

 spots, and the bristles are very pale and inconspicuous. Portions of 

 an internal vessel, which I take to be the alimentary canal, often show 

 through the semi-transparent body as darker blotches. Yentral surface 

 yellowish-white, with a more or less pronounced greenish tinge. All 

 the legs and claspers semi-transparent yellowish-white ; there is a very 

 slender black streak noticeable where the anterior side of each true 

 leg joins the body. 



The Rectory, Corfe Castle 



August 26th, 1891. 



Ephestia pinguis in the Isle of Purbeck. — On August 13th the Rev. C. R. Digby 



netted a fine specimen of this local moth, which he had beaten out from the tall side 



hedge (composed of mixed growth, in which ash was of course represented) of a 



copse near this house. This is the first occasion on which M. pinguis has been met 



with in the county of Dorset, and the capture is all the more encouraging, as I iiave 



60 often searched for it in vain on ash trunks round here. From the same hedge I 



had the good fortune to secure two specimens of Tinea albipunctella on the following 



day, and altogether we took about three or four examples apiece of Peronea Schalle- 



riana, var. latifasciana. — EusTACK R. Bankes, The Rectory, Corfe Castle : 21th 



August, 1891. 



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