i88i.] 267 



grey, spots large, pale yellow, head very light brown, plates dull pale 

 yellowish. Or pale yellow, with the whole dorsal region tinged with 

 olive-green, spots paler and shining, head very pale brown, plates and 

 legs yellowish. 



All on Spircea uhnaria spinning together the young (undeveloped) 

 leaves, and living between them, often gnawing the young mid-rib, so 

 as to cause the upper part of the leaf to dry up. Feeding up in the 

 undeveloped tops, but quitting them when full-fed, to spin up among 

 rubbish, or under the turned down edge of a dead leaf. Pupa light 

 brown ; moth emerging from the middle to the end of July. I am not 

 aware that it feeds on any other plant. The moths are remarkably 

 constant in colour and markings. 



JPeronea Lorquinianc^Dup. (JBactra id ig i nosana ,Steph.) . — The larva 

 also reached me from Wicken Fen, collected there by my friend, Mr. 

 F. D. Wheeler. It is moderately active, rather long, cylindrical, but 

 with deeply divided segments ; when young, pale pea-green, with a 

 faintly powdery efflorescence, a darker green internal dorsal vessel, 

 and hardly perceptible sub-dorsal lines ; when older, yellowish-green, 

 with the sub-dorsal lines more distinct. Head faintly brownish, 

 without spots or markings ; plates both shining green. In blossom 

 spikes of Ly thrum salicaria, feeding on the flowers in August. These 

 were larvae of the second brood, which should have produced the moths 

 in the autumn, and some were reared by Mr. "Wheeler and others, but 

 mine died when full-grown. 



Pembroke : Uth March, 1881. 



NOTES ON THE LJ2PIDOPTERA OF THE VALAIS. 

 BY E. C. E. JOEDAN, M.D. 



In the early part of June, 1 880, I spent a fortnight in the Yisp 

 and Saas Valleys, Mr. Geo. Baker, of Edgbaston, being with me ; we 

 both worked diligently at the Lepidoptera of the district, and with 

 tolerable success. The following fflwpalocera were taken by us in 

 ; addition to those recorded by me in a previous list as captured in 

 June, 1878 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xvi, p. 86). 



Papilio Podalirius, common ; at my last visit I only saw one. 



Pieris CalJidice, common above the tree-limit. 

 i'JjP. napi, bryonies, and the spotless males were, of course, common, but 

 J|on the 15th of June, I caught one female napi between Zermatt and 



