PYRAUSTID.E—BOTYS. i89- 



verse wriakle across tbe back of each ; head glossy dark 

 grey with a black mark iu front of each lobe ; dorsal plate 

 glossy black, divided by a dark grey line down the middle ; 

 colour of the back and sides down to the spiracles dark 

 grey tinged with purplish-brown ; the dorsal line still darker ; 

 on either side of the third and fourth segments are two 

 faintly paler longitudinal lines ; raised dots large, black and 

 glossy, each with a fine hair; spiracles small, round and 

 black ; the surface below them light preenish-grey, or drab, 

 and the spots there brownish-groy. Ventral prolegs short, 

 but the anal pair extended behind. (W. Buckler — condensed.) 

 -July till September, on Tiucviiuii scorodoaia (wood-sagej, 

 Solidago virgaurea (golden-rod), Origanuvi vulgare (mar- 

 joram), and Clinopodiuiii vulgare. Colonel Partridge has 

 found it to feed on Cciitaurca. Eating the leaves, and after 

 the third moult inhabiting a movable case formed of pieces 

 cut from the leaves of its food plant or from other leaves — 

 especially those of bramble. Exceedingly shy, only protrud- 

 ing its head from this case to feed at night, and when perfectly 

 undisturbed, but making a fresh case when that in use 

 becomes withered. 



Pupa half an inch long ; rather slender ; back of the 

 thorax and of the abdominal segments rather keeled ; head- 

 parts moderately produced ; wing-covers long and well 

 defined ; the hind part of the abdomen having a flattened 

 and tapering prolongation and blunt extremity furnished 

 with minute curly-topped bristles; colour dark purplish- 

 brown with the lower abdominal divisions golden-brown ; 

 the wing-covers glistening ; all the rest glossy. (W. Buckler.) 



In the last case used bj" the larva, one end being fastened 

 up. Remaining in this case through the winter as a larva, 

 changing to pupa in the spring. 



Usual]}- a wood-frequenting species, preferring the open 

 portions, where patches of wood-sage and tufts of golden-rod 

 grow freely in the open intervals between undergrowth. 



