TORTRICID^E—DICTYOPTER YX. 205 



central band broad and irregularly dividing on the costa, 

 where is an enclosed paler blotch, bnt extending widely 

 before and beyond it, and forming a well-marked angle on 

 its way to the dorsal margin ; hind margin edited with 

 red-brown ; cilia pale brown or yellow, bnt with a leaden 

 gloss. Hind wings and their cilia smoky white. Female 

 quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale yellow, marbled witli 

 purplish-brown ; hind wings silky white. 



Variation seems to be equally abundant almost every- 

 where, from yellow and light red forms, with reticulations 

 and sharply defined markings, to dark red-brown in varying 

 shades, in which the markings are rendered indistinct, and 

 even to black-brown. 



On the wing from the end of July till September or even 

 October. 



Larva when full-grown sluggish and rather plump, 

 slightly flattened, yellowish-green, or when younger bright 

 green ; head and dorsal plate black, changing with ao-e to 

 brown and yellow-brown ; anal jilate at all ages green. 



End of May to beginning of July, on hawthorn, black- 

 thorn, mountain ash, wild apple, pear, plum, and even oak 

 and apricot ; usually in the terminal shoots, drawino' the 

 leaves together and feeding within. Occasionally it is 

 found to attack the young fruit of apricot, eating out the 

 substance when the fruit is as large as a' marble, and then 

 becoming a serious pest. 



Pupa slender, red-brown ; thorax shining and smooth ; 

 segments dull, each with two coarse ridges set with numerous 

 fine points. In a silken cocoon in the larval habitation, or 

 elsewhere among leaves. 



One of our most abundant autumn insects. Found in 

 every hedge, and usually in plenty, and to be beaten out 

 with ease everywhere, flying swiftly out and back to the 

 hedge or bank at once. Abundant throughout England and 



