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it appears during a longer peiiod than is usual with most 

 larv£e. I was unfortunately not able to get any of the larvae 

 in 1857 figured, but from one of those received from 

 Mr. Jeffrey early in August, Miss Wing has made a most 

 beautifully characteristic figure. 



Mr. Jeffrey sent me the following interesting observations 

 on the habits of this larva: — '^ 1 find the larva3 of Therutis 

 Caudella feed much more freely at night ; by taking a lantern 

 after dark, you may find them resting on the underside of 

 the upper leaves, from which they rapidly descend on the 

 least touch. I have taken them in this way, from the same 

 bushes which I have unsuccessfully beaten, but a short time 

 before sunset." 



*Depressaria Petasitis, Standfuss. Of this species I re- 

 ceived some larvae in May, through the kindness of Herr 

 Ernst Plofmann, then residing at Oberaudorf. Early in May 

 he had made an excursion to a mountain 6,000 feet high, and 

 there found at an elevation of 2,000 feet several species of 

 Peiasites in blossom ; in the stems of Petasiten albus, 

 nweus and ramosus he found the larvae of Depressaria Peta- 

 sltis of various sizes ; " it betrays its presence by the withering 

 of the uppermost flowers ; the opening to the stem is covered 

 with a light web. Here and there larvae may be found 

 between fiowers spun together, and I afterwards found it 

 most abundant in cylindrical puckers formed on the leaves — 

 these habitations being frequently much filled with excre- 

 ment." From the larvee which I received I made the 

 following description, which will probably enable any one 

 who may meet with it here at once to recognise it. 



Length 8 lines: pale grey, dorsal vessel greyish-fuscous; 

 spots dark fuscous; head reddish-brown; second segment 

 yellowish -brown; anal segment with a yellowish -brown 

 plate. 



