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form of this species. I now take it every year feeding on the 
ling, and think Mr. J. Jenner Weir was quite right in naming 
this species as a heath-feeder, that being the common food-plant 
on the mountains in the North. Lower down among the woods 
the larger variety swarms, and feeds on the different species of 
sallow.—Wmn. Rep; Bridgefoot, Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, N.B., 
Feb. 6, 1883. : 
DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF CHILO PHRAGMITELLUS. — 
When collecting at Wicken Fen in June, 1880, and again in May, 
1882, I found the larve of this species were readily procured, by 
pulling at the tall, withered, previous year’s reed-stems along the 
ditch sides ; the stems tenanted by larvee or pupe broke off near 
the roots. Length just about an inch, and rather slender. Head 
considerably smaller than the second segment; it has the lobes 
rounded, and is, as is also the frontal plate, highly polished ; the 
whole surface of the upper part of the body indeed is very smooth 
and glossy. Body cylindrical, but when crawling is strongly 
attenuated posteriorly. Segmental divisions well defined, and 
the tubercles distinct but not very prominent. The ground 
colour is a pale yellowish grey, some specimens having a pink 
tinge. Head wainscot-brown, the mandibles very dark sienna- 
brown. Frontal plate greyish yellow, edged all round with smoke- 
colour; the purplish brown alimentary canal forms the dorsal 
stripe; the subdorsal and spiracular stripes broader, also 
purplish brown ; this darker colour is also more or less suffused 
on the dorsal area between the subdorsal lines, giving some 
specimens a darker appearance than others. Spiracles and 
tubercles intensely black. Ventral surface, legs, and prolegs 
uniformly of the pale ground colour of the dorsal area. It feeds 
in the reed stem, just below the surface of the ground, and 
frequently, probably usually, under water. The change to pupa 
also takes place inside the stem. This is large for the size 
of the moth, those which will produce female specimens being 
nearly an inch in length. It is long, cylindrical, narrow, and 
of nearly uniform width, tapering near and towards the anal 
point, and also towards the snout; it is smooth, highly polished, 
and all the parts well defined. When exposed it is very active, 
wriggling and twisting about rapidly and with the greatest ease. 
Ground colour of the abdominal segments deep ochreous yellow; 
wing-, eye-, leg-cases, abdominal divisions, and anal point, dark 
