62 LEPIDOPTERA. 



I'l'PA apparently undescribed. The larva spins up iu late 

 autumn, but does not assume the pupa-state till Maj-. 



An exceedinglj- local species, of the habits of which very 

 little is known ; about forty — or perhaps fifty — years ago 

 the late Dr. R. C. R. Jordan took it freely at Teignmouth, 

 Devon, by beating tiie masses of old ivy on the town walls. 

 He assured me that it was alwaj-s constant and reliable in its 

 characters, and that he could at that time have taken, had 

 he been so disposed, hundreds of specimens. He suj^posed 

 it to feed on the pith or substance of the old ivj' sticks. 

 Visiting the place twenty-five years ago he found many of 

 the old walls pulled down and much of the ivy destroyed ; 

 moreover, a search among that still remaining was barren 

 of results. In the year 1886 Dr. J. H. Wood captured a 

 female specimen at light, close to some old ivy, and from it 

 obtained eggs, the resulting larviB being here described. 

 This was at his home, Tarrington, Herefordshire. Other 

 records are in Middlesex ; at Mickleham Downs, Surrey ; 

 Lyndhurst, Hants ; rarely in Dorset ; and at Redland, Bristol, 

 Somerset ; but I am not aware of any locality in which it 

 can be, xoiili certainty, found now ; and it does not seem to 

 have been, at any time, captured and recognised out of 

 England. 



Genus 20. PLODIA. 



Antenna of the male thickened from the base, but 

 tapering, simple ; palpi bluntly porrected ; face furnished 

 with a tuft of scales lying along the palpi ; fore wings 

 elongated, narrow, with the cell narrow ; hind wings ample, 

 the cross-bar angulated ; veins 5 and 8 absent. 



We have only one species. 



1. P. interpuncteUa, Huh. — Expanse | to | inch 

 (15-18 mm.j. Fore wings narrow, rounded behind, pale 

 j'ellow to near the middle, remainder dark ])urple or dark 

 crimson. Hind wings dirty white. 



