192 LEPIDOPTERA. 



, Larva when full grown, soft, fat, and shining ; of a dirty 

 yellow colour, with just a suspicion of a greenish tinge on the 

 thoracic segments ; head and dorsal plate small, deep black. 

 When young brown, with black head and plates. 



September to April on silver fir (Finns picea), feeding in 

 the buds, usually the terminal buds of the side shoots. 

 When full fed leaving the buds and making a cocoon in an 

 angle of the shoots. 



This species was first noticed and recorded in this country 

 in the year 1878, having been found by Dr. J. H. Wood of 

 Tarrington, about silver fir in Herefordshire. Some years 

 later it turned up in Norfolk at Merton and in mixed woods 

 near King's Lynn. Here it was to be found, just as the last 

 species was getting known, in very small numbers, sitting 

 on the boughs of the silver fir, and unless disturbed and 

 kept down by wind, remaining at a good height ; usually fly- 

 ing a little in the afternoon sunshine. It has also been 

 taken in Essex, Herts, Hants, and Wilts, but I think never 

 in any numbers, and may still be considered scarce as well 

 as local with us. Abroad it is widely distributed through 

 Central Europe, Northern Italy, Sweden, Dalmatia, Greece, 

 and the Taurus Mountain district. 



Genus 4 ENDOPISA. 



Antennae thick ; palpi very short, slender, pointed ; 



thorax smooth ; fore wings short and broad, without fold ; 



costal cell deeply channelled ; apex blunt, notched beneath ; 



hind wings broad, a very small tuft of hair scales on the 



base of the median nervure. 

 We have three species. 



A. Fore wings short olive-black, hind margin almost per- 

 pendicular, costal dots brilliant. U. nchritana. 



A^. Fore wings elongated, olive-brown, hind margin oblique, 

 costal dots dull silvery. E. gemmiferana. 



