go LEPIDOPTERA. 



Larva rather stout and slightly flattened ; pale yellow — 

 greener when young — dorsal region tinged with light brown 

 or pink ; raised dots minute, black ; head and the broad 

 dorsal plate shining jet black ; anal plate green. 



May and June on elm {Uhnus. campestris) between united 

 leaves, also in rolled leaves and shoots, more especially 

 frequenting trees and not bushes. 



Pupa pale yellowish brown ; spun up in the larval habita- 

 tion. 



This species sits in elm trees, on the trunk and branches, 

 and among the leaves, from which it may be beaten out in 

 clouds, almost throughout England, including the London 

 suburbs, yet is rather scarce in the northern counties. It 

 flies about the trees and along elm hedges in abundance at 

 dusk. Common also in Wales and all the lowlands of Scot- 

 land to Perthshire ; and probably throughout Ireland, though 

 apparently recorded only from Wicklow, Cork, Dublin, and 

 Antrim. Abroad its range extends almost all over the 

 Continent of Europe. 



9. S. rufimitrana, R.-S. — Expanse h to | inch (12-16 

 mm.). Fore wings rather narrow ; pale reddish white or 

 yellowish buff with umbreous, sharply angulated, basal 

 blotch, slender oblique central band, with apical dots and 

 clouding. Hind wings pale smoky brown. 



Antennae, palpi, and head dark yellow ; thorax ochreous- 

 brown ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wings rather narrow 

 but even in width, costa very slightly arched, apex angu- 

 lated ; pale reddish brown or reddish white ; basal blotch 

 dark brown, strongly angulated outwards on the median 

 nervure, indented below the costa ; central band narrow, 

 very oblique and straight, or else indented in the middle, 

 umbreous dotted with black ; hinder area clouded with the 



