34 LErinul'lLRA. 



spot black. Body aud legs brownish-grey, the tarsi black- 

 brown, barred with white. 



Very constant in colour and markings. 



On the wing in April and May. 



Larva long, slender, tapering slightly towards the head, 

 which is somewhat broad, green, very slightly marked with 

 purplish-red ; body somewhat wrinkled, studded with a very 

 few short whitish hairs ; ground colour grass-green, slightly 

 tinged with yellow ; segmental divisions yellowish ; dorsal 

 line very slender, dark purplish-red, enlarged at the base of 

 each segment into a spear-head shaped blotch ; these dorsal 

 blotches are bordered with yellow, and become confluent on 

 the capital and caudal segments ; spiracular line pufted and 

 rather paler green than the rest of the body, blotched into 

 purplish-red on a few of the middle segments of the body, 

 and more or less bordered with straw-colour ; central ventral 

 Une whitish. 



End of May and June ; on apple, feeding on the blossoms 

 and also upon the leaves. It has been known to feed on 

 whitethorn ; and Hofmann adds blackthorn and raspberry. 

 When young it bears a close resemblance to a stamen of an 

 apple blossom. (Rev. H. H. Crewe.) 



Pdpa apparently undescribed. The Rev. Joseph Greene 

 says that it is quite unlike that of any other Eupithccia with 

 which he is acquainted, but much more like that of a TortrLv, 

 very long and slender, and twisting the abdominal portion in 

 a very active manner. It has been found under apple bark. 



The winter is passed in this state. 



The moth frequents orchards, keeping apparently about 

 the upper branches of apple trees, and is very rarely seen in 

 the daytime — or even at night, except when, as occasionally 

 happens, it visits a neighbouring lamj), attracted by the 

 licrht. It had long been known as a rare species in this 

 country, when, in 1874, Mrs. Hutchinson, of Grantsfield, near 



