I90 LEPIDOPTERA. 



out the United Kingdom wherever its favourite tree is found ; 

 and abroad throughout Central and Northern Europe, the 

 South of France, Piedmont, and South-west Eussia. 



3. C. distinctana, Bent. ; proximana, Btaud. Cat. — 

 ExpanserJ- inch (12 mm,). Fore wings black-brown with a 

 narrow complete white band before the middle, and some 

 short white streaks beyond. 



Antennee dark brown ; palpi, head, and thorax pale olive- 

 brown ; abdomen darker. Fore wings rather narrow at the 

 base, costa distinctly folded, then flatly arched ; apex 

 bluntly angulated; dark brown dusted with white and 

 minutely with yellow ; at a short distance from the base is a 

 complete transverse white stripe, very slightly angulated 

 outwards in its middle ; beyond and near the apex are four 

 distinct white costal dots or streaks ; from the first pair of 

 these is sometimes a rather obscure similar transverse stripe ; 

 ocellus obscure, rather narrow, white dotted with black ; cilia 

 grey, faintly cut beneath the fipex by a narrow white dash. 

 Hind wings and their cilia smoky-brown. Female more 

 distinctly and shraply marked, rich brown with the markings 

 more broadly white. 



Undersides of all the wings leaden-brown ; costal dots of 

 the fore wings white. 



On the wing in June. 



Larva semi-transparent pale green ; head and dorsal plate 

 pale amber-colour; legs green, raised dots brown; dorsal 

 line dark green, 



August and September on silver fir {Finns picea) mining 

 out the internal substance of the leaves (needles) ; drawing 

 these needles closely together, forming a neat and compact 

 chamber, quite free from excrement, both inside and out, 

 and with silk of a whitish colour ; yet it seems to reside 

 within one of the excavated needles until full fed, then 

 leaving to spin up elsewhere. (Dr, Wood.) 



