TORTRICID.^—DICTYOPTER YX. 201 



Kingdom. Abroad it is distributed over Central aud Western 

 Europe, Lower Austria, Styria, Galicia, aud Northern Italy. 



4. D. conwayana, Fnh. — Expanse i to | inch (12-16 

 mm.), Soft reddish fulvous, marbled with yellow and dark 

 red, and having a yellow dorsal spot ; hind wings dark smoky 

 brown. 



AntenniB rather short, brown or yellow-brown ; palpi, 

 head, and thorax yellow-brown mottled with darker ; abdo- 

 men dull brown. Fore wings not broad ; the costa well 

 marked, not folded ; rich soft yellow-brown, fulvous or chest- 

 nut brown, slightly spangled with silvery scales ; on the 

 dorsal margin before the middle is a yellow blotch, shai-ply 

 defined and rather squared ; while an obscure yellowish 

 shade opposite upon the costa seems to mark the space 

 between the basal blotch and central band ; beyond the 

 middle a much fainter costal blotch seems to define the 

 latter ; cilia jellow with brown shades. Hind wings narrow, 

 smoky brown ; cilia similar. Female a little larger, and 

 tending more toward yellow colouring; hind wings smoky 

 brown. 



Variable in the depth of red-brown or dark brown marbling 

 and shading. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva thick, cylindrical, smooth, yellowish-white, with a 

 visible intestinal canal ; head small, heart-shaped, glossy 

 brownish-yellow ; dorsal plate rather broad and of the 

 same colour ; anal plate small and with the feet yellowish, 

 (v Heyden.) 



September till October or November, in the berries of 

 privet or the seeds of ash ; also said to feed in the seeds of 

 barberry. When full fed leaving these seeds to pass the 

 winter in the ground in a roundish, thin, flat white cocoon, 

 assuming the pupa state early in the winter. 



The moth in this country is more especially attached to 



