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Larva and Pupa unknown ; except that ^Ir. Buckler 

 obtained from the egg young larvae " of a pinkish-brown, 

 with very dark brown shining head and plate behind it, and 

 with excessively minute brown dots and fine hairs ; rather 

 active for so small a creature.' It does not appear that these 

 young larvfe were observed to feed. Perhaps it may be 

 desirable to add that larva? believed to be of this species 

 were found on the top of a mountain in Scotland, by Mrs. 

 Fraser, in the autumn of 1881. These were described by 

 Mr. Hodgkinson " pale whitish-yellow, with very few hairs 

 on the body, the head very small, shining, the colour pale 

 ash ; no spots visible. Lying snugly ensconced at the roots 

 of a club-moss." This description does not appear to have 

 been confirmed by the emergence of any moth. 



This species seems to be restricted in these Islands to the 

 tops of mountains, where grass is growing, and to the higher 

 grassy slopes. Mrs. Fraser says : " AVhen close to the hill-top I 

 found aCrambus flying, one thati had never seen before; itwas 

 entirely confined to the summit of the hill and to the ground 

 sloping down, perhaps twenty-five or thirty feet from the 

 top. There were several rocky points, and immediately below 

 and surrounding these, dry springy turf, very short grass, 

 and tufts of mountain blaeberry. The moth took quick short 

 flights, and invariably settled on the ground, never once on 

 the grass. Most likely this habit of alighting on the ground 

 is for the purpose of concealment ; at rest on the peaty 

 brown soil, with little fragments of the dry whitened herbage 

 of the past season scattered about, C furcatclluH was almost 

 invisible. It was not inclined to rise often on the wing 

 unless disturbed." This was on a Perthshire mountain ; in 

 England it is only known to occur on Skiddaw and other 

 mountains in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and North Lan- 

 cashire ; in Wales upon Snowdon ; and, as Dr. J. W. Ellis 

 states, on any elevation in that district above 1,500 feet ; 

 and in Scotland on the high hills of Perthshire, Aberdeen- 



