174 LEPIDOPTERA. 



tightly into the forks of beech twigs. The cocoon is firm, of 

 a dull dark brown, often mottled with dirty white upon the 

 outside, accurately matching the beech bark. Inside it is 

 lined with pale yellow silk. In this cocoon the larva remains 

 unchanged from October till late in May, or even into June, 

 the pupa state lasting only a short time, perhaps a fortnight 

 or three weeks. (W. H. B. Fletcher.) 



The moth flies in the afternoon sunshine, looking much 

 like a Tortrix, for which it may readily be mistaken. 

 Doubtless it flies also at night. Exceedingly local in this 

 country, and confined to the south. Rather common in the 

 beech woods of Buckinghamshire, where, at Marlow, numbers 

 have been reared by the Rev. Bernard Smith ; also not 

 uncommon in the New Forest, Hants. Found more 

 sparingly in Woolmer Forest, Hants ; at Wakehurst and 

 Abbotts Wood, Sussex ; and in Epping Forest, Essex. 

 Abroad it is found locally in Central Europe, Sweden, Livonia, 

 Corsica, and Piedmont ; also in Eastern Tartary. 



Family 4. CHLOEPHORID-ffi. 



Antennae thread-like, palpi short, thorax broadly oval, 

 abdomen short and rather blunt ; fore-wings broad, somewhat 

 bell-shaped, with costa much arched at the base ; hind-wings 

 short. 



Larvae cylindrical, smooth, with sixteen legs. 



Pup^*: in a tough, boat-shaped cocoon. 



A family not closely connected with the previous, nor at all 

 with the following ; but of singular structure and uncertain 

 location. It was formerly placed with the l^ortrices, with 

 which group the form of the fore wings closely associates it, 

 but in almost all other respects it disagrees with that group. 

 It was placed by Mr. Stainton, as a separate family, immedi- 

 ately before the Tortriccs ; by some other authors among the 



