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third pair similarly nearly uniting, with a perpendicular streak, which also reaches 

 the anal angle, passing outside the ocellus, which contains three or four black streaks. 

 Hind margin edged with a deep black line, which is interrupted below the apex by 

 a silvery blotch. Cilia pale silvery-grey. Hind-wings of the male pale grey, with 

 the base whitish, the apical angle white, a deep black line along the hind margin, 

 and a white blotch inside it ; of the female darker grey, with the white apical angle 

 and deep black marginal line. Cilia whitish. Head and antennae dark grey, palpi 

 paler. 



This species has not hitherto been recorded in the United King- 

 dom, but is found in Germany, G-alicia, Livonia, and Servia. It does 

 not seem to have been previously reared, but nearly every author 

 records it as occurring among Spar Hum scoparium or Genista, in woods 

 or wood-meadows. Its time of appearance is April and May. 



Eupcecilia atricapitana , Steph. I find that the early summer 

 brood of this species is produced from larvae which feed in the autumn 

 and winter in stems of Senecio jacobcsa, causing a slight distortion of 

 the stem, and that they remain in the burrow until the spring, fre- 

 quently spinning up and assuming the pupa state therein, bat in some 

 cases leaving the stem to spin up elsewhere. The moths emerge in 

 May and June. 



Some of the distorted dry stems were gathered for me this spring 

 at Eastbourne, Sussex, by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, and I afterwards 

 found a few in the quarries here. Moths have emerged from both. 



JEupoecilia udana, G-n. In Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xi, p. 191, 1 quoted 

 a description of the larva of this species made by M. Eagonot, from 

 specimens preserved in spirits. This description I can now compare 

 with one made from a living larva kindly sent me by Dr. Wood, of 

 Tarrington, Ledbury. 



Moderately plump and rather thickest in the middle, dull yellowish-pink or 

 pinkish-brown, greyer towards the head, dorsal line faintly greyish-brown, spots 

 shining, hardly visible, hairs very minute, head and divided dorsal plate bright 

 black-brown, anal plate pale brown. 



Feeding within the dry flower-stem of Alisma plantago, full-grown 

 about the middle of October, eating the pith and leaving frass scat- 

 tered irregularly along the burrow. Pupa chestnut-brown, with dark 

 brown wing-sheaths. In a slight cocoon of white silk, placed inside 

 the dry stem of Alisma, not occupying the whole width of the burrow, 

 but attached to one side, and having a hole cut nearly through the bark 

 for exit. Through this the pupa pushes its way before the moth 

 emerges. 



On receiving a larva from Dr. Wood, I went to a little pond at a 

 corner of a lane for some Alisma, and there found two or three larvae. 

 The species had not previously been observed in this neighbourhood. 

 The moths emerged in June, July, and August. 



