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" eating their way iu from tlie joints. I have examined hundreds o£ 

 " joints, and find that about an inch is sufScient for each larva. They 

 " are to be found very small (I have seen them feeding when very 

 "minute) as well as full-fed in the stems, and pupate in them and iu 

 " the seed-heads. I have seen five or six pupa-skins sticking out of 

 "the joints of a single plant. In June, Avhen the first brood of larvse 

 " is feeding in the stems, there are no seed-heads, but I found them in 

 " seed-heads and stems in August, and again in October. The larvae of 

 " this last brood hibernate. I put three larvae into a chip box and they 

 " remained in that state under a web until May 5th, then changed to 

 " pupae, and emerged about the 20th. I also found two larvae on the 

 " 18th searching for a comfortable place to change in. There are three 

 " broods — the moths appearing in May, July, and September, and these 

 " three broods do not differ, but there is exactly the same variation in 

 " size and colour in each." 



Mr. West kindly sent me larvae two years ago, from which I noted 

 the following description : " "When young, dull greenish with a black 

 " head, but when full grown, pale yellow, with light brown head, and 

 " with two black dots at the posterior margin of the yellowish dorsal 

 " plate. Eating round the seed-heads of Pi/retlirum inodorum, devouring 

 " the seeds and also boi-ing into the joints of the stem, which they hol- 

 " low out, going into pupa in the spaces." 



But Dr. Hofmann describes the larva as follows : " Yellow, with 

 " shining black head, dorsal plate brown, posteriorly black ; anterior 

 " legs black, ventral and anal pro-legs yellow-brown, the latter with 

 "a light brown horny plate ; raised dots yellowish with very fine white 

 "bristles. In autumn, in the seeds of CJirt/socoma linosyrls; according 

 " to Eossler, on Gnaplinlium and Solidago ; according to Zeller, on 

 " Fyretlirum. (The food plants are,at any rate, exclusively CompositcB)^ 



It certainly is found also in this country among Solidago, and Mr. 

 Machin has once reared it from that plant. 



E-ossler, I believe, adds that it flies among Artemisia campestris 

 and vulgaris, OnaphaUum and Tanacetum, and Heinemann that it feeds 

 in seed-heads of Antliemis cottda, which, if correct, would identify 

 it with Curtis's anthemidana, with his description of which ihe female 

 of this species closely agrees. In this view I see that I am coi'roborated 

 by Heinemann himself. 



Eupoecilia roseana. Haw. — Wilkinson, after describing the larva 

 of this species pretty accurately, says, " before attaining its full dimen- 

 " sions it eats its way into the centre of the teazle-head, spinning a 



