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18S4.. 4.5 



divided segments. Dull white with dark green dorsal vessel ; spots 

 invisible, hairs rather long, white. Head pale brown, plates faintly 

 tinged with brown. Pupa light brown, with yellowish wing-sheaths. 

 Feeding between two leaves of beech, which it unites by silken 

 ties, gnawing the inner surface of both leaves, and leaving the 

 outside skins. There seems to be no silken tube, and the frass is 

 scattered all about between the leaves. The cocoon is small and tough, 

 egg-shaped, covered with frass, and attached to the habitation. The 

 pupa is partly forced out when the moth emerges. These larv* were 

 sent me by Dr. Wood of Tarrington, Ledbury, early in September, 

 the moths emerged in the succeeding June. 



Grapliolitha trimaculana, Don.— Larva rather stout, and slightly 

 flattened, when young greenish, afterwards pale yellow ; dorsal region 

 pinkish or brownish, spots minute, black, head and broad dorsal plate 

 shining jet-black, anal plate green. 



On elm, between folded or drawn-together leaves, apparently pre- 

 ferring trees' to bushes ; feeding in May and June. Pupa pale yellowish 

 brown. Moth emerging at the end of June. 



Grapholitha geminana, Steph.— Larva cylindrical, active, dirty pale 

 •^yellowish, strongly tinged with greyish-green in the back, and showing 

 '■ the dark dorsal vessel. Head black-brown, dorsal plate black, anal 

 plate green, spots shining, but hardly visible. Peeds in June on 

 ' Vaccinium myrtilJus, uniting the leaves and joining them on to other 

 ' ileayes, and even to other twigs, so that the twisted, contorted appear- 

 " ance of the tops of the Vaccinium is very noticeable. It spins up, 

 and becomes a pupa, between the leaves, and emerges in July, and is 

 **; common in most places in which its food-plant is plentiful. 

 ': ' Hofmann says that he has found it in great abundance on Urica 



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 carnea, on the mountanis. 



Grapholitha ncBvana, H.-The larva of this species is very similar 

 ol ito that of geminana, but seems always to have a black head. It is very 

 ^j (partial to holly, feeding in a very closely spun-up shoot of that plant, 

 \\ jand doubtless on other shrubs, feeding and emerging rather later than 



pjl xgeminana. 



Yon Heyden's description of the larva is-"somewhat transparent, 

 whitish-grey, with isolated pale bristles. Head heart-shaped, shining 

 „ iblack, dorsal plate with large dots at the back and sides. In spring on 

 fruit trees, and Bhamnus.'' 



Pembroke : loth December, 1883. 



