26 [Fobmaiy, 



Of its larva Sorhagen says, " It lives till the winter in the pith of 

 the flower stem of Gnaplialiiim dioicum and G. arenaruim, also of 

 Antennaria dioica. In the spring it feeds in the larger young shoots, 

 pupating in the larval habitation." Dr. E. Hofmann says, " Larva on 

 Antennaria dioica in May, imago in June." 



Frey, under the name of Fischeri, says of the distribution of this 

 species, " In the south in Tuscany, in the north in Livonia and Fin- 

 land, widely distributed, found also in Bohemia, Silesia, Austria, and 

 Switzerland, both in the valleys and on mountains as high as 60U0 feet. 

 In the mountain regions on the wing at the end of July and in 

 August." 



Gnaphalium dioicmti and arenarium do not appear to be known as 

 British plants, but w^e have closely allied species in the same genus, 

 and considering the wide distribution of this species, which Wocke 

 gives as "Northern Europe, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and 

 Persia," it is somewhat remarkable that it is not known as an inhabi- 

 tant of Great Britain, and our friends in Ireland are to be congratu- 

 lated upon having added so interesting and distinct a species to the 

 fauna of the United Kingdom. As already hinted, Swiss specimens 

 have a decidedly browner, warmer tinge of colour than those now 

 recorded. 



39, Linden GroTe, Nundead, S.E. : 

 January 1th, 1897. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LARVA AND PUPA OF DEPSESSARIA 

 PULCHERLilMELLA, Stn. 



BY EUSTACE R. BAKKES, il.A., F.E.S. 



Although the larva of Depressaria 2'>ulcherrimeUa , oi w'hich species 

 the imago was first described by Stainton in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 V, 164-5 (1849), has now been known for the last forty years and more, 

 I am not aware that a description of it, or the pupa, has ever been 

 published in any English or continental work ; it may, therefore, be 

 useful to sup[)ly the omission. 



LARVA. 



The following description was taken on May 31st, 1S96, fi'om a 

 larva, almost full fed, found near here on the preceding day. 



Length, 13 mm. Greatest breadth, 18 mm. 



Head rather narrower than the prothoracic segment, polished, pale whitish- 

 vellow tinged with green, with some scattered brownish bristles ; upper mouth-parts 

 brownifih ; ocelli consisting of fiTe small, round, polished, black dots, placed in a 



