41 6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



white, and two broader red-black transverse clouds placed 

 alternately ; first line far from the base, thick, deep black, 

 erect and indented, edged inwardly with white ; second 

 line less erect, much indented and having a projecting 

 angle above the middle, deep black, edged outwardly 

 with white; central space much dusted with black, contain- 

 ing a white discal spot, and obli(|uely beneath it a large 

 black cloud ; beyond the white edging of the second line is 

 a parallel cloudy stripe of black dusting; extreme hind 

 margin edged with short, squared, black streaks ; cilia 

 shining grey. Hind wings ample, apex angulated ; hind 

 margin gently curved ; shining pale smoky grey ; cilia 

 smoky white. Female similar, but with filiform antennae. 



Underside of the fore wings shining dark smoke colour ; 

 on the costa two white dashes enclose a black spot. Hind 

 wings smoky white, with a broad whiter stripe in the hinder 

 area and the hind margin blackened. Legs and body 

 blackish-grey, but the extreme anal tip ochreous-grey. 



On the wing at the end of June and in July. 



Larva half an inch long, stoutest at the thoracic segments, 

 tapering at the last two ; head broad, rather flattened, shining 

 pitchy-black ; paler on the top of the lobes, and brown 

 beneath ; dorsal plate shining black ; body dull, but of a 

 rich red-brown or chocolate colour ; undersurface a little 

 paler ; raised dots small, shining black, each with a rather 

 long fine hair ; spiracles minute, in faint black rings ; on 

 the back of the twelfth segment is a faint ochreous patch ; 

 anal segment paler, with a dark brown subdorsal stripe ; 

 legs of the ground colour. (W. Buckler, under the name of 

 dbietella.) 



August till ^lay, in cones of spruce fir {Pinus abies)^ 

 feeding in them when quite small and green, hybernating 

 in them, probably moving from one to another, and feeding 

 up within when the last infested cone is of full size; ex- 

 truding frass through a round hole in the side. 



