ISO LEPIDOPTERA. 



is that the sucking trunk in this, as in very many of the 

 Bomhycina, is almost, or totally, absent, and there is no 

 reason to believe that it has any power of partaking of the 

 attractive mixture. Yet of this attraction there is no sort of 

 doubt. It has been recorded in numerous instances ; in some 

 the moth was hovering up and down the patch of sugar, 

 in others, settled upon it ; and this I have myself witnessed. 

 The probable explanation is that the moth mistakes the 

 sugar for flowing sap, and that this is accepted by it as 

 an indication of a suitable tree for deposition of eggs. Yet 

 this explanation is not fully borne out by the facts, since the 

 male moth is attracted in the same manner. 



Tolerably common throughout the South of England, 

 abundant in the Eastern counties, including Cambridge- 

 shire ; less common through the rest of England and Wales, 

 and scarce in the north ; commoner in some parts of Scotland, 

 even abundant and destructive in Morayshire. In Ireland it 

 was recorded by Mr. E. Birchall in the County Wicklow, and 

 the larva is said to have been found in plenty at Leixlip. 

 Abroad it is found nearly all over the continent of Europe, 

 Western Asia, and Northern Africa. 



In a paper read before the Entomological Society of London 

 in the present year (1893), Dr. T. A. Chapman points out 

 that in the structure of the pupa this species agrees most 

 closely with the Tortricina, so that in an arrangement based 

 \\\ion impal characters, it would necessarily be placed in that 

 group of otherwise small species. He further points out the 

 remarkable cii'cumstauces that the neuration of the wings of 

 the moth is almost identical with that of Carpoecq^sa i^omonana 

 (the Codlin moth), that the palpi and spurs on the legs are 

 similar to those of many Tortrices, and that in markings it 

 closely resembles those of the genus Uetinia. This is certainly 

 the case ; and clearly we have here another of the perplexing 

 instances of the inter-locking of, in many respects, distinct 

 groups. 



