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lecting larva3 of U. innivorana in side shoots, I found small 

 lateral buds that contained full-fed larvge and small glossy 

 black pupa3, resting, like turioncma, head downwards in an 

 oblique passage ; . . . after more careful searching I secured 

 six brown undeveloped buds each containing a pupa, from 

 which I have now bred two female B. ]Josticana. The larvse 

 evidently prefer small single lateral buds, near the ground, 

 on stunted trees." 



This species was introduced under the present name to the 

 British Fauna in the year 1888, specimens having been 

 captured near Cambridge by Mr. W. Warren. Previously 

 it had been known to occur near Paisley and elsewhere in 

 Scotland, but had been supposed to be the allied R. dviJlana. 

 From this species it is at ance distinguished by the dull 

 yellow colour of its head and thorax and the shortness of its 

 fore wings. Yet it had stood under that name — diqjiana — 

 in collections from the year 1856. My own impression is 

 that it is simply a dwarfed form of R. turioncma, but its 

 specific distinctness is urged so strongly by Mr. Warren 

 and other competent Entomologists that I feel constrained 

 to give it the present position. It may be beaten out of 

 small fir-trees by day, and also found fiying around them at 

 dusk. Casual specimens have been taken in England by 

 Mr. Warren at Newmarket ; and by Mr. A. E. Atmore near 

 Norwich ; but its natural range is certainly much further 

 north — in the Edinburgh and Clyde districts, in Perthshire, 

 Inverness, and even the Shetland Isles. Abroad it is re- 

 corded from the Alps and Germany and most parts of 

 Northern Europe. 



5. E,. pinivorana, Zdl. — Expanse f to | inch (15- 

 19 mm.). Fore wings elongated, pale silvery-brown, with 

 numerous chocolate-brown tranverse markings. 



Antenna brown ; palpi, head, and thorax light brown ; 

 abdomen hoary-brown. Fore wings elongated, rather narrow, 

 costa gently arched, apex and hind margin rounded ; pale 



