142 [June, 



of March on a inistj night, just as before, making lor the tender twigs of the 

 Mimuaa {ur Ihviv aap[)vv ; were 1 an arlisl,, 1 iniglit indicate how like they are to 

 their surroundings. Tlieir spikes ui'e like moss, the bodies straight, and round as a 

 pieee of stick, and all spikej. There are about twenLy-eigliL moss-like green spikes, 

 tea on the head, six on tiie end, and a row of small ones over the legs. There is a 

 row of white spots, sharply edged with blue-green, along the middle of the back, 

 and a row of ol wliite elongated splashes on each side ; between these two rows is 

 a bright yellow stripe ; rest of the body, with the legs, green. They seem to assume 

 a red tinge just before spinning up. The legs are almost imperceptible. It seems 

 to take hold all along the body as it walks, the legs swelling out and retiring as it 

 moves. They are legs, but look like little greeu suckers. The first moths emerged 

 very quickly, and all in a few weeks. 



t'focidoluitiia biiiotalis, Zell. — " The larvse are dirty-greenish looking objects, 

 smootli, very slender, with brown dorsal and yellow spiracular stripes, very sluggish 

 and without noticeable hairs, lound feeding m tiie hearts of cabbages — we had to 

 break the cabbages open to find them." 



[Dead pupaj and numerous cocoons are furnished. The pupa is very glossy, 

 almost witliout sculpture, but the limb, antenna and wing covers very well marked ; 

 the abdomen sliort, witii the anal segment a little thickened, smoothly rounded, and 

 not provided with any noticeable creniaster. In a tough cocoon, sometimes in tlie 

 ground covered witli earth, or else in any twisted up bit of soft paper or gauze. 

 The moth, which somewhat resembles our Fionea strainentaUs and r.margaritnlis 

 has, in the male, a singular erect tuft of long grey-black scales arising perpendicularly 

 fi'om the arcli of the costa, near the base of the lore-wings. J 



Mt/elois caradriiiella, Zell. — " These webs on the bottom branches of Mimosa 

 bushes or on trailing branches of young Mimosa trees, have often excited my 

 interest, but 1 could find nothing witiiin. One day, walking with some friends i 

 gatheitd a sprig, and found upon it a long tiiin greeu larva, and by plucking more 

 sprigs of the same tree have secured a few, of which 1 send the resulting moths. 

 The larva? would eat the Mimosa when very dry, and never showed themselves at 

 all ; tliey must be strictly night feeders." 



[From the clustered masses sent it is evident, I think, that this larva makes a tube 

 among (apparently) the dead, fallen leaves and iiard prostrate twigs of the mimosa. 

 If so, there is a sufficient explanation of its secretiveuess. Whetlier its food con- 

 sists of the living, or tiie ilead leaves is a question for further observation, but very 

 possibly it may prove to be the latter. The pupa, which is rather slender, smooth 

 and moderately shining, though not brilliantly so, is light red-brown, rather darker 

 behind; its anal segment tliickened and rounded behind; the cremaster a blunt 

 black knob. It is contained 'in a slight silken oocoon in the mass of rubbish 

 collected round rough larva-tubes. Tiie moth with narrow fore-wings, of a slate 

 colour and white hind-wings, bears a remarkable resemblance to our Myelois 

 ceratonice. It comes constantly to lighted windows at night in wet weather.] 



Tortrix {Fandemis) reciprocana, Hpsn. — " I noticed one day two Oleander 

 leaves joined together, and found a chrysalis between, so I put it under a shade. 

 To-day I noticed what seemed like a shield or a bit of dried leaf, but it moved, and 

 then 1 saw what I had secured." 



