196 LEPIDOPTERA. 



plate yellow, veiy transparent, but mottled toward the base 

 with pale brown clouds ; usual raised dots glossy, con- 

 colorous ; anal plate shining pitchy brown. (Wilkinson.) 



July to September in the fruits of plum, blackthorn, and 

 occasionally apricot, devouring the pulp or fleshy substance 

 of the fruit, eating a passage through it, and always burrow- 

 ing along by the stone. Reported abroad to have two 

 generations in the season, one feeding in the shoots. This 

 seems to require confirmation. 



Pupa light brown, in the earth or under moss or bark on 

 tree trunk, in a cocoon in which the larva has remained 

 through the winter. 



The moth is rarely captured here ; common as the larva 

 sometimes is with us, feeding in the plums and damsons in 

 our gardens and orchards, I have only once captured the 

 moth, a single specimen sitting under a blackthorn bush ; 

 and the experieuce of others is very similar. Probably it 

 usually rests on the higher branches of plum trees, or 

 perhaps drops to the ground the moment it is disturbed. 

 Certainly occurring in the London subui'bs — indeed, my 

 next door neighbour's plums are infested — and to be found 

 wherever its food is grown, but apparently only recorded in 

 Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, Herts, Essex, Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, Cambs, Wilts, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, 

 Lancashire, and Yorkshire ; and in Wales in Pembrokeshire. 

 I have no certain record in other portions of these Islands. 

 Abroad distributed through Central Europe, Italy, Scandi- 

 navia, and Asia Minor. 



Genus 5. PAMPLUSIA. 



Antennae thick, naked ; palpi rather long, densely tufted, 

 third joint prominent ; thorax smooth ; fore wings narrow 

 and pointed, having an extremely narrow costal fold ; hind 

 wings narrow, without tuft. 



