176 LEPIDOPTERA. 



brown with the sutural marks black ; dorsal plate transparent 

 and horny with two pale spots on the posterior margin ; anal 

 plate pale brown ; spiracles brown. (Wilkinson.) Feeding 

 through the autumn and probably the winter on the seeds in 

 the interior of the cones of spruce fir, biting its way through 

 the woody scales to reach a fresh seed, when necessary. 

 Spinning up in the larval habitation. 



Pupa thin-skinned, shining pale brown ; slender, abdominal 

 segments swollen and deeply divided ; cremaster a short flat 

 knob. In a silk-lined cavity in a large scale of the spruce 

 cone. Very easily collected in the early spring by picking 

 u]3 the bright light-brown fallen cones and storing them 

 away in a well-aired flower-pot or other vessel, soon after 

 which the moths appear in plent}*. As they sit on the cones 

 they adapt themselves so closely to the curves of the cone- 

 scales as to look like a mere shadow. 



This moth flies in the afternoon sunshine about the spruce 

 fir (Fimts ahics), but as its chief attraction is the young cones 

 its flight is usually well out of reach. So far as I can 

 ascertain it maybe found wherever its food is at all common 

 throughout England, and in Scotland it is known to occur in 

 Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Renfrew, Ayr, and Arran, but I 

 possess no records for Wales or Ireland. Abroad it is 

 common through Central and Northern Europe. 



5. A. splendidulana, Gn. — Expanse finch (10 mm.). 

 Fore wings glossy olive-brown with faint lustrous cloudy 

 streaks from the costa and behind, ako a paler squared dorsal 

 blotch. 



Antennae black ; palpi and head black, finely dusted with 

 yellow ; thorax and abdomen olive-brown. Fore wings 

 rather narrow, costa very flatly arched, apex rounded ; 

 dark olive-brown, thickly covered with minute j^ellow dots 

 placed in fine lines ; just before the middle is a squared 



