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Salda pilosella, Thorns. According to Mr. Douglas (Ent. M. 

 M., xvi, p. 218), this species is regarded by Dr. Puton as only a pilose 

 form of S. pallipes, but I think S. pilosella is a good species. It often 

 occurs in company with pallipes, but it can at once be distinguished 

 from it. The colour is very little variable ; the bristly erect hairs of 

 the head, pronotum, scutellum, and clavus seem to me to be good 

 differential characters. 



S. eleganttjla, Fall., is regarded by Dr. Puton (I. c, p. 218) as 

 the brachypterous hispid form of S. cincta, H.-S., but this cannot be 

 approved. I have examined, in the Museum at Helsingf ors, a macrop- 

 terous specimen of S. elegantula, having the elytra covered with black 

 bristly hairs, and the antennae are distinctly thicker than in cincta. 



Scolopostethus pilosus, Reut., is suspected by Dr. Puton (I. c, 

 p. 219) to be only a hispid variety of S. affinis, which latter is found 

 by us only on nettles ; while S. pilosus lives in damp places among 

 fallen leaves, moss, &c. 



Helsingfors : 11th March, 1880. 



NOTES ON UNKNOWN OH LITTLE-KNOWN LARV^ OF MICRO- 



LJEPIDOPTERA. 



BY E. L. RAGO^OT. 



{continued from Vol. xvi, p. 273). 



Platytes cerussellus, S. V. 



The larva is unknown, but Anton Schmid once bred the moth 



from an unobserved larva in moss. The moth is fond of grassy banks 



and ditches, and flies abundantly in June and July. 



Or ambus alpinellus, Hb. 



Larva unknown, the moth flies on dry sandy pasture lands, where 

 heath, broom, and Artemisia campestris grow, in July and August. 

 It is not an alpine insect, nor does it specially frequent fir woods. 



C. verellus, Zk. 



According to Anton Schmid, the undescribed larva feeds in moss 

 on the branches of old plum, apple, and poplar trees, but Dr. Bossier 

 finds the moth also in fir woods where the ground is covered with moss. 

 The moth flies in July and August, 



G. dumetellus, Hb. 



The larva is unknown, the moth occurs on dry hill-slopes in June 

 and July. 



