100 [October, 
The entire descriplrion is too long to be given here, but the following 
extract will serve as a specimen of the care with which it has been 
written : 
" The colour of the anterior wings is a dull cinnamon-brown, to- 
wards the apex paler from the scattered yellowish scales, especially on 
the costa. At 5 of the length of the wing are two elongate black spots, 
obliquely placed, the lower one nearer the base, on the fold ; both are 
surrounded by an incomplete white ring. Just beyond the middle of 
the wing on the transverse vein, in the same line with the upper of the 
two previous spots, is a third larger spot, but not so deep black, in an 
oval, white, almost complete ring. Beyond this the veins are clothed 
with black scales, as also the ends of the veins in the hind margin ; 
sometimes also there are black marginal spots on the costa before 
the apex." 
All of which applies most excellently to my specimens of GelecMa 
triannulella. 
Dr. Steudel's notice of the larva is as follows : 
" The larva feeds on Convolvulus sepium, and turns the top of the 
leaf by a horizontal fold upwards, and fastens it flatly to the upper side 
of the leaf. In this triangular abode it eats a portion of the paren- 
chyma ; on the leaf being disturbed it quits its abode by a hasty, 
springing movement at one end of the fold, like the larvae of the genus 
Depressaria, or like the similar larva of Hypsolophus Schnidiellus 
(Durdhamellus). By this means three of the larvae which I found 
escaped, and a fourth was injured and killed in the attempt to catch it 
hastily. If I am not mistaken, I found the larvae in July, and the 
perfect insect appeared in September. 
"The larva is rather elongate, thickened anteriorly, the head 
brown-black, the thoracic segment of the same colour, with paler shield 
a.nteriorly and three white spots posteriorly ; the second to fifth seg- 
ments thickened, dark brown, the third segment with a series of raised 
white spots anteriorly, the fourth unicolorous, the fifth with lateral 
white spots anteriorly, beyond that the body is of a rather paler brown, 
with a white dorsal line, and with obliqvie white streaks on the sides. 
The anterior legs are black, the prolegs and belly are dirty dark green." 
From the foregoing descriptions it is evident that the larva of 
triannulella is closely allied to those of rufescens and lutatella, which 
are so extremely similar that it is hardly possible to distinguish them. 
I am strongly disposed to fancy that the \a,rv?e of cinerella, tripunctclla 
