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but I have Bot seen any description. Ilerr Wilde supposes that the 

 larva feeds on Ligustrnm vuhjnrc, but the moth occurs where there is 

 no privet. 



Diasemla litferata, Sc. {literal is, S. Y.). 



Litterata frequents dry pasture lands and vineyards early in 

 June, but we have still no clue as to the habits of the larva and its 

 food-plant. It appears that there are two broods (see Barrett, E. M. 

 M., xiv, p. 159). 



Diasemia Samhurifdis, Dup. 



Nothing is known about the larva ; the perfect insect seems to 

 like marshy places in April and August. 



Nai>cia cilyilis, Hb. 



The larva is yet to be discovered; the moth frequents boggy 

 meadows in May and June. 



Sfenia punctaJis, S. Y. 



Larva still unknown ; the perfect insect is fond of dry pasture 

 lands and hill slopes, flying in August. 



Sotijs pandalis, Hb. 



The larva seems to be quite unknown, though the moth is common 

 enough in certain localities in June and August. 



Bolysflavalis, S. Y. 



The larva has been supposed to feed on bedstraw {GaJ iitm veritni) , 

 and certainly the imago affects dry pasture fields where this plant is 

 common ; no doubt that, like most of the Botydce, the larva is poly- 

 phagous. Moschlersays that he has found the larva on nettle (Urfica 

 tirens), and bred the moth, which flies in July. 



Botys hyalinalis. 



According to Herr Anton Grartner, the larva feeds in rolled-up 

 leaves of nettles in May and June. Herr Gai'tner is an excellent 

 observer, yet I fancy there is some confusion with B. ruraJis, Sc. 

 {verticdlis, S. Y.), whose larva feeds thus. A. Hai^tmann copies 

 Gartner. The moth appears in July. The larva is still "wanted." 



Botys straminaJis, Hb. (strauientalis, Hb.). 



It has been stated that the larva feeds in March, in stems of 

 wheat, and that it is sometimes injurious to crops ; the original obser- 

 vation has not come to my notice — the moth flies in June and July, in 

 damp meadows, and may feed in the stems of grasses. 



