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some instances the boring of the little grubs went down to the 

 old wood of the shoots, and in others I found the grub (or 

 caterpillar) dead within; but two of these larvfe were still 

 alive, one within a shoot, and the other straying about, and 

 both, as customary with this grub for most of its lifetime, of 

 a reddish colour. 



When retiring for hybernation, the caterpillar is noted by 

 Dr. Chapman as being two millimetres in length,* and that 

 " it possesses well-developed legs, but the prolegs, though 

 fairly in evidence, possess no hooks ; it is red in colour . . . 

 rather orange-yellow ; head rufous, with sundry hairs ; spin- 

 neret very long ; second segment [that next the head, E. A.O.] 

 has a plate arched behind, and narrowing to the front ; along 

 the hinder margins are darker stronger patches, in a central 

 and two lateral portions, looking at first as if the plate con- 

 sisted only of these in form of two lunules ; anal plate tri- 

 angular; several hairs on each segment." In the full-grown 

 larva it is mentioned that the four abdominal pairs of prolegs 

 possess hooks, but not the anal pair. 



In the chrysalis it is noted that the wing-cases extend to 

 the middle or end of the tenth segment, but are only attached 

 as far as the sixth, and that in emergence it forces itself out of 

 the cocoon. 



The moths, which are observable in the latter days of May, 

 are about five-eighths of an inch across in spread of the fore 

 wings ; head with a thick tuft of ochrey hair above. Fore 

 wings dark brownish or fuscous, sometimes with a purplish 

 satiny gloss, a pale yellow band across the wing at about one- 

 third of its length from the root, and two patches, also paje 

 yellow, about half-way between the yellow band and the tip 

 of the wing ; these two patches are respectively on the fore 

 and hinder edges of the wing, and the hinder patch is some- 

 what triangular in shape. The hinder wings are pale grey. 



The following extracts are taken from the clear account of 

 the method of infestation of the young fruit given by Dr. T. 

 A. Chapman from his own observations in his paper referred 

 to below, t which I was kindly permitted by the writer and 

 the editors of the Ent. Mo. Mag. to quote from in my 

 ' Fifteenth Annual Report,' and now again quote with many 

 thanks. Dr. Chapman commenced his record as follows : — 



" Certain moths which I reared from the larva sent me 



* One millimetre is the twenty-fifth part of an inch. 



t See paper by Dr. Chapman entitled '' Lampronia capitdla,'" in 'Entomo- 

 logist's Monthly Magazine ' for December, 1892, pp. 297-300. In this paper, for 

 various reasons there given. Dr. Chapman notes that he thinks it would be 

 desirable to change the generic name of Incurvaria for that of Lampronia ; but 

 as I am not aware of the change having been made, I retain the name of 

 lucurvaria as above. 



