200 [September, 



in the smaller, and 1 mm. before them in the larger pupa. Wing- and posterior 

 leg-cases reaching in the former to the end, and in the latter to a trifle beyond the 

 middle, of the 4th adbominal segment. All the abdominal segments, except the 

 first, have, across the back, two parallel rows of raised spikelets sloping backwards, 

 one near the anterior margin, the other just behind the middle of the segment ; the 

 former consists of longer and stouter spikelets, and is continued further down the 

 sides than the latter. The anal extremity is sharply pointed, and bears a few short, 

 stout, hooked, orange bristles. The free abdominal segments were Nos. 4, 5, 6, in 

 the smaller, and Nos. 4, 5,6,7, in the larger individual, proving that the former was 

 a ? and the latter a <? .* 



Later observations showed that the colour of a pupa immediately after assuming 

 that state was buiT-yellow, and that just j^rior to emergence the pupa is conspicuously 

 particoloured, the head and thorax, with their appendages, appearing as a black- 

 brown mass, relieved by the lighter bands across the fore-wings, legs, &c., which 

 show distinctly through the shell, while the abdomen is dusky pale raw sienna-brown, 

 with the intersegmental interstices bi'ownish-orange. 



The smaller of the two pupa} described above yielded an imajijo 

 on June 24th, 1901, but the larger one unfortunately died. A con- 

 siderable proportion of the O. hifasciava larvge that I have collected 

 have been ichneumoned. and the flies bred from them are, T believe, 

 in the hands of Mr. Claude Morley. 



The principal distinctions between the larva and pupa of O. hi- 

 fasciana and those of Evetria aylvestrana^ Crt., which sometimes occur 

 with the former, will be mentioned in my paper on the latter species, 

 which will follow this. 



Notes made on just over fifty moths show that 55 per cent, 

 emerged betvi'een 7 a.m. and 12 noon, while 21 per cent, did so be- 

 tween noon and 10.30 p.m. In the case of the remainii]g 24 per cent. 

 I failed to ascertain with certainty to which periods they belonged, 

 but have reason to believe that the great majority of them left the 

 pupa between 7 a.m. aad 12 noon, though some probably did so not 

 long before 7 a.m. 



The imago may be readily beaten out from the branches of P. 

 'pinaster by day, or netted whilst on the wing on fine calm evenings 

 from about 7.45 till dark. My earliest date of capture is June 11th, 

 1901, when a J (already worn !) was boxed off a cluster of male 

 catkins of P. ■pinaster, and my latest is August 3rd, 1902, when two 

 individuals were taken by beating : all three occurred in the same 

 spot in this neighbourhood. The moths, bred in considerable num- 



* It seems clear that, in Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, x, pp. 106, 180 (1899), I was in error in assign- 

 ing the Tortricid piipse with only the 4th, -Sth, and 6th abdominal segments " free " to the male, 

 and those with the Vth segment also "free" to the female, sex, for Dr. Chapman had already 

 .shown (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1893, p. Ill) that, among the Tortrices, it is the male pupa that has 

 four " free " segments, whilst in the female only three are " free." — E. R. B. 



