28a LEPIDOPTERA. 



black ; dorsal line marked by ten pairs of orange-coloured 

 raised tubercles, two on each segment. The four middle 

 segments have also a second pair of smaller and less distinct 

 tubercles, from which spring long and curiously recurved 

 hairs ; spiracular line also indicated by a row of raised 

 orange-coloured tubercles. (W. H. Tugwell.) 



August to June upon fungi growing on rotten wood in 

 wet places. Hofmann says on Parmelia (a lichen) and on 

 Polyporus (a fungus). Mr. Tugwell found it upon black 

 sooty-looking masses of fungus, which were not in a condition 

 to enable him even to ascertain to what genus they belonged, 

 but upon this unpleasant-looking material the larvae fed and 

 thrived. 



Pupa apparently undescribed, in a cocoon slung by each 

 end, attached to the fungoid mass on which the larva has 

 fed. 



A rare and excessively local species in this country, indeed 

 almost confined to the Metropolis. Haworth wrote in the 

 beginning of the present century that he knew of four 

 British specimens in collections. Stainton fifty years later 

 wrote that the only known localities here were "Blackfriars 

 Bridge, Fleet Street, and a coal cellar at Chelsea" — all in 

 London. One seems to have been taken in Upper Thames 

 Street in 1859 and another in 1879. Others are recorded as 

 taken in the City in 1855, 1862, and 1870; in 1864 one at 

 Clapham ; and in 1881 two in the City and three in the 

 neighbourhood of Dockhead, on the south side of the Thames. 

 Here also in subsequent years the larva was found, as already 

 described, and it is probable that a good many were reared, 

 since Mr. Tugwell alone had a dozen specimens. Yet the 

 produce from this source has not apparently continued, nor 

 do I find any record in London for some years past. A 

 single example is said to have occurred at Croome, Worcester- 

 shire, at some date earlier than 1860, but so far as I know 

 the capture was not confirmed, and the specimen may have 



