38 i Jul y> 



Lozopera Francillana, Fab. 



Larva short, plump, cylindrical, dirty yellowish-white, head black, dorsal plate 

 faintly brown, with two dark brown spots at the posterior edge, anal plate small, 

 faintly brownish with a dark spot in the middle. 



Feeding in the autumn and until April in the stems of Daucus 

 carota, eating the pith and filling the space with frass, through which 

 it seems to work back in the spring. It appears also to make small 

 cocoon-like chambers in the frass, and then abandon them, but ulti- 

 mately spins up in the stem and becomes a light brown pupa, which 

 pushes itself through the bark of the stem when the moth emerges : 

 this takes place in July and. August. 



My remark in vol. xi, p. 196, that the larva had been reared from 

 seeds of Daucus carota seems to have been a mistake. At the same 

 time I quoted from M. Jourdheuille's Calendar : " Larva in dead stems 

 "of Fryngium campestre" and remarked that this must refer to 

 another species. A short while ago, M. Ragonot sent me four beautiful 

 specimens oi jlagellana, Dup. (giving eryngiana, Heyd., as a synonym), 

 telling me that they were reared from dead stems of Fryngium campestre. 

 These specimens differ from Francillana in being less glossy and of a 

 more ochreous yellow, and in having the first oblique fascia abbreviated 

 and slightly clubbed at the apex, with a spot opposite it on the costa, 

 while the second fascia is more curved, attenuated in the middle, and 

 often has a short row of dots outside it. This species seems constant 

 in its markings, and is intermediate between Francillana and Smeath- 

 manniana. 



Heinemann (p. 80) gives jlagellana, H.-S., as synonymous with 

 Francillana, Fab., and Wocke includes jlagellana, Dup., as well as 

 jlagellana, H.-S., under Francillana, Fab., but he gives eryngiana, 

 Heyd., as a distinct species. I have no opportunity now of ascertaining 

 whether Duponckel's and Herrich-Sehaffer's jlagellana are the same 

 species, but I think there can be no doubt that jlagellana, Dup., 

 should be separated from Francillana, F., as a distinct species, with 

 eryngiana, Heyd., as a synonym. 



Pembroke : 16th June, 1880. 



Stigmonota scopariana, a Tortrix new to our list. — This very handsome species 

 I bred the last week in April and first week in May. I had no idea of my prize, in 

 fact, at first I thought they were only very big Lithocolletis ulmifoliella until I 

 chloroformed one and then saw it was a Tortrix which at the time I set down as 

 Coccyx splendidulana, until I took them to Preston to compare, and at once saw I had 

 a puzzler. I sent one to Mr. Stainton, who did not know it, then I sent it on to 

 Mr. C. Gr. Barrett, he wrote me what he thought it was, but wanted to see both sexes ; I 

 then sent him both sexes, and he at once wrote me they were Stigmonota scopariana. 

 I imagined the larva? had been obtained from mountain ash, but the name scopariana 

 at once made me think whether I had ever been among broom, as it is scarce at 

 Dutton ; there are some broom bushes about 50 yards from my house which I beat 

 only once and put any larva in along with those I beat among mountain ash, &c, 

 so most likely the pabulum of this gem is the broom. I bred six specimens in all. — J. 

 P. HoDGKiNsiON, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : June loth, 1880. 



