1884.1 Ql 



)f the wings, 5 1- lines (of auro^uftella, 4^). Grroimd-coloiir o£ the 

 interior-wings deep dark yellow, one might compare it to the colour 

 )f brass (of awroguttella, the ground-colour is pale canary-yellow) ; 

 he golden markings seem very similar in both species, though in 

 imoniella, from the darker ground-colour, they can be far less easily 

 Taced. 



The most striking character is furnished by the apical portion of 

 he costal cilia: in limoniella these incline from brassy dark yellow to 

 iark grey (in auroguttella they are pale canary-yellow, hence very 

 jtrongly contrasted with the apical black streak immediately below 

 ;hem) . 



Lewishara : July 18^A, 1884. 



NOTES ON BEITISH TORTRICES. 

 BT CHAS. G. BAERETT. 

 ^Continued from v^^d^ 45.) 



Pcedisca riijimitrana, H.-S. — Larva whitish-green, dorsal region 



I ^lightly greener, but so transparent that the green contents of the in- 



' testinal canal (dorsal vessel) are visible in separate masses ; spots large 



and shining, but of the colour of the body ; head yellow-brown or 



honey-colour, jaws rather darker, dorsal plate greenish, anal plate very 



pale yellow, legs and under-side of body greenish-white. 



On Abies cepJiaJonica, spinning together the terminal shoots, 

 hollowing out the young needles, and, afterwards, spinning together 

 the older needles in bunches, and eating some of them through near 

 the base. 



Found at Merton by Lord Walsingham, in May, 1882. The larvae 

 spun up in the gauze covering of their cage, and the moths emerged 

 in the beginuiug of July. 



A most elaborate and exhaustive monograph of this species has 

 ^ibeen published, at Yienna, by Herr Fritz A. Wachtl, the species being 

 ,at times very destructive in the forests of kSouthern Germany. He says 

 ithat the eggs are laid in groups, and are, at first, of a yellowish-brown 

 'and covered with a network of fine lines ; the larva dirty greenish-yellow, 

 dorsal and anal plates, and under-side clear yellow, head rust-red. He 

 lalso describes the position of every dot and bristle on the body, and 

 says that the larva is full grown in the middle of June, and assumes 

 I the pupa state in the ground or among debris. The pupa rust-red, 

 ■ jand tapering towards the head as well as at the hinder end. He also 



