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plate becomes jellow with a brown spot. Teeding, in night-time, in 

 shoots and young leaves of all sorts of roses, and, sometimes, even on 

 dewberry (Bubus ccBsius) drawing the leaves together, or even, in small 

 roses, twisting them over like a hood. This latter is particularly obser- 

 vable in Rosa spinosissima. The pupa state is assumed among the 

 twisted leaves, and the moth emerges in myriads at the end of June. 



Brachytcdnia semifasciana, Haw. — Larva rather plump and slightly 

 flattened, pea-green, with darker green dorsal and sub-dorsal lines, 

 sometimes with a whitish appearance of efflorescence and whitish 

 segmental divisions. Head yellowish-green, plates both green. On 

 SalLv caprcea and other sallows in May and June, drawing together 

 terminal leaves. Pupa blackish, in a cocoon of white silk between 

 leaves, moth emerging at the end of June and in July. 



Rentliina hetuletana, Haw. — Larva cylindrical, smooth, shining andij 

 rather plump but active. When young pale yellowish with broad 

 g^6y-&^6^^^ dorsal vessel. Spots black, but very minute, hairs trans- 

 parent. Head and plates jet-black, dorsal plate narrow and placedi? 

 far back on the second segment. 



When full-fed rather attenuated at each extremity. Bright green j 

 with yellow folds between the segments, the raised spots distinct andi 

 yellow, and having a narrow dorsal, and two sub-dorsal lines grey-greenj 

 Head small, yellowish-green, plates pale green. 



In May and June in screwed-up leaves of birch. Found odi 

 Moncrieffe Hill, Perthshire, by the late Sir Thomas Moncrieffe. 



Penthina variegana, Hiib. {cynoslateUa, L.) — Larva cylindricalii 

 rather sluggish, very dark green, spots black, very small. Head ano 

 plates black. On hawthorn and blackthorn, drawing together a lea:a 

 or two with silk in May and June. Pupa black, in the same placei 

 moth emerging at the end of June. 



Penihina pruniana, Hiib.— Larva sluggish, short and plump, brighi 

 green, spots distinct, and shining black with short hairs. Head ano 

 dorsal plate shining black, anal plate either black or green. Oi) 

 blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), drawing together the terminal shoots an« 

 eating out their hearts, feeding from April to June. When f ull-fe<e 

 the larva leaves the shoot and twists or folds a leaf (often of somi 

 different species of plant) into a small neat chamber, in which i 

 changes to a black pupa, the moth emerging in June or July. 



Treitschke says that it feeds in the different species of Pruni 

 CrattBffus, and Posa, but this seems doubtful. 



