1887.] 127 



; The larva hatches out in the autumn, hibernates small, begins to 

 feed again in the spring, and becomes full-fed towards the end of 

 May. For a short time after leaving the egg, it lives inside a needle, 

 but afterwards for the rest of its life it occupies, like its congener, 

 preeanqusta, a gallery, that it spins on the surface of a twig. This 

 gallery is of a brown colour, close texture, and even regular form, but 

 in time it gets so covered up by the accumulation of frass that it 

 comes to bear a rough resemblance to the loose, untidy, habitations of 

 Coccyx hercyniana and nanana. S. pmicolella, however, always hides 

 within its gallery, and usually eats out the leaves for only half their 

 length ; the Tortrices, on the other hand, as invariably hide within an 

 excavated needle, and in feeding clean out each needle thoroughly 

 before attacking a fresh one. When full-fed, it spins on the under- 

 side of the same or an adjoining twig a slender, somewhat flattened, 

 brown cocoon, with rounded ends, and rather wider at one extremity 

 than the other ; the general appearance being strikingly like the larval 

 gallery before it acquires its covering of frass. 



The larva in its first skin is yellowish-brown, with black head and 

 thoracic plate, and rather long and conspicuous hairs. It then moults 

 and acquires the form and characters which it retains without appre- 

 ciable change to the end, so that the following description will stand 

 for any stage in its subsequent development : — 



Eather slender, not attenuated, cylindrical, with the divisions deeply cut. 

 Segments, when viewed from above, ilat-sided, not rounded, and with a transverse 

 wrinkle across the back of each. Colour, reddish-brown. Head black and shining. 

 Thoracic plate black, with a white colour in front. Anal plate not noticeable. 

 Hairs pale and inconspicuous. The pupa is long and slender, the limb-cases 

 reaching nearly to the end of the abdomen, and being free at their tips for about 

 the breadth of a segment. Colour, a pale dull brown, with a gi-cen tinge in the 

 wing-cases. 



Tarrington, Ledbury : 



October Uh, 1887. 



AN ENTOMOLOGICAL RAMBLE AT BERGEN, NORWAY, 

 AUGUST 20th, 1887. 



BY EOBEKT C. R. JOEDAK, M.D. 



It was a glorious day, very warm, and the sun shining very 

 brightly, so taking a net with me, I walked towards the Floien, to see 

 what might be found in the way of Lepidopterous life in rather a high 

 latitude. 



The first moth seen was OrthoJitha limitafa {clienopodiata) , of 

 which three or four were disturbed from the grass and Centaiirea by the 



