286 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Zeller found his larvaj on Ccdanuigrostis epigejos in Gennany, 

 and even — rarely — on Arundo jyhrai/mitcs (common reedj, 

 but here the only plant upon which it has been found 

 appears to be Bnwhypodmm pinnatiim, and in confinement 

 Mr. Buckler found that it fed readily upon Triticmn rcpens 

 and T. laxum. Mrs. Hutchinson says : " They were sent me 

 towards the end of May, then less than half an inch in 

 length. They fed readily on Brachypodium sylvatiaivi, living 

 in a tube formed of a grass leaf drawn together by silk, 

 coming out to feed at night on the young grass leaves. 

 They pupated in the tube, or between two or three grass 

 blades drawn together." This statement appears to clash 

 in some degree with that of Professor Zeller, but may not 

 really do so, as it is most probable that the Professor, in 

 saying " between some leaves " meant grass-leaves or blades. 

 Mr. Buckler found that the larvte fed by ascending towai-ds 

 the top of a blade, eating out a wedge-shaped jDortion from 

 the side so as to cut off the pointed top, and then either 

 continued eating from the same place, or cut out large 

 wedge-shaped spaces lower down, returning afterwards to 

 the middle of a blade, where they made a silk-lined hollow 

 by drawing together the edges a little. 



May and June. Doubtless the eggs are laid in July and 

 August, but no evidence appears to be obtainable as to the 

 time of their hatching. If this takes place in the autumn 

 the hybernated larvte would certainly be again feeding in 

 April ; if not, the emergence from the egg would probably 

 occur in that month. 



Pupa slender, three-fourths of an inch in length ; eyes 

 prominent, head flattened at the top, and with a flattened 

 triangular beak-like process in front ; thorax arched, and 

 rather broader than the rest of the body, abdomen tapering 

 very gradually towards the tail, which has a prolonged, 

 blunt, flattened tip, furnished with a cii'clet of exceedingly 

 minute recurved hooks; wings, antennaj and legs plainly 



