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from the aperture of emergence ; I found nothing to explain these 

 convenient anomalies, except the unvvettable character of the larva, and 

 the elasticity of the currant skin. The buds and fruit spurs of the 

 currant have at their bases many dead scales that persist from earlier 

 buds, and amongst these the young larva buries and hides itself, 

 spinning a small, firm, white cocoon, in which to pass the winter. 

 Three larvae, that were otherwise very distressed, on being offered a 

 short branch of currant, at once adopted this course. 



I have already remarked on the size and robustness of the moth; it is, then, 

 remarkable that the young larva on retiring for hibernation is only 2 mm. in length, 

 less than half the length of that of rubiella, when it retires for the winter (and, 

 therefore, about one-tenth of it in bulk). It possesses well developed legs, but the 

 prolegs, though fairly in evidence, possess no hooks ; it is red in colour, mucli like 

 ruhiella, or a little paler when first escaping, rather orange-yellow ; head rufous, 

 with sundry hairs, spinneret very long ; second segment has a plate arched behind, 

 and nari'owing to the front ; along the hind margins are darker, stronger patches, 

 in a central and two lateral portions, looking at first as if the plate consisted only of 

 these in form of two lunules ; anal plate pale, triangular, several hairs on each 

 segment. 



The full-grown larva has fairly developed prolegs, the four abdominal pairs with 

 hooks, but the anal without. The hooks do not form a circle, but are rather dis- 

 posed as an atiterio-r and posterior row, on a line sloping outwai'ds and backwards, 

 but still so that they might be regarded as the anterior and posterior portions of a 

 circle. The hooks vary a little in number, even on the two sides of the same seg- 

 ment, they are black and very minute, but distinctly hooked. On segment 7 (3rd 

 abdominal) thei^e are (usually) two anterior and five posterior hooks ; on 8th, four 

 anterior and five posterior ; on 9th, two anterior and five posterior ; on 10th, two 

 anterior and four posterior ; a third, pale, ill-developed hook often occurs with the 

 two anterior hooks. 



The pupa is of the ordinary Adelid type. The wing-cases extend to the middle 

 or end of 10th segment, but are only attached as far as the 6th ; the 7th, 8th, 9th, 

 and 10th segments are free in the ? pupa, the 11th also in the ^ . Segments 7th — 

 12th have each a row of spines along its forward dorsal margin, and 12th, 13th, and 

 14th have several other spines ; the row of spines is also faintly indicated on 5th 

 and 6th. Each segment carries trapezoidal, and also supra-, post-, and sub-spiracular 

 hairs, the sub-spiracular being very long ; there are also very long antennal hairs ; 

 there is no trace of posterior marginal spines, except two on segment 12th. Among 

 the head appendages is the " eye collar," about which I have something to say 

 elsewhere. 



In emergence it forces itself out of cocoon, and the dehiscence is of the Adelid 

 (" micro ") type ; segments 5th and 6th do not very distinctly open, as in Tortrices. 



L. capitella is very scarce among my currants, indeed, for some years 

 I doubted its presence : I was inclined to attribute this to the ground 

 being dug every winter, destroying the hibernating larvae therein, but 

 this was obviously erroneous, as the larva certainly hibernates on the 



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