Verzeichniss ia 1776, page 130, under the name of Tortrix ocellana, 

 and in the Supplement to the same report, page 318, they state that 

 the larva feeds on horn-beam ( Carpinus hetulus) . Fabricius described 

 the moth more fully in his Mantissa Insectorum, Volume 2, page 228, 

 (1887), and in 1794, in Part 2, Volume 3, of his Entomologica Sys- 

 tematica, page 255, he described the moth again under the name of 

 Pyralis luscana. Why he changed the name is not apparent. 



Hiibner, sometime before 1811, in his Sammlung europaischer 

 Schmetterlinge, figured this species on plate 3, figure 16, and gave it 

 the name of Tortrix comitana, and in his Geschichte europaischer 

 Schmetterlinge, Tortrices, gives on plate 3, fig. 1, a. the larva; and 

 b, the pupa, on apple blossoms. 



Bechstein, in his Naturgeschichte der schndlichen Forstinseckten, 

 Part 3, page 774, (1805), describes the moth and says that it is seen 

 rarely in forests in Germany in the month of June ; and that the 

 Vienna Verzeichniss states that the larva feeds on the white beech, 

 (Fagus sylvaticus), thus making a mistake in the food plant by a 

 misquotation. 



Haworth, in his Insecta Britannica, Part 3, page 334, published in 

 1811, adopts Hiibner's name and describes six different varieties of 

 the moth, but makes no allusion to the early stages and food plants, 

 which he would have done if he had known them, for, on the title 

 page, he states that all known facts on the early stages are given. 



Froelich, in his Enumeratio Tortricum, published in Germany in 

 1828, describes the moth but makes no allusion to the early stages. 



Treitschke, in Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Volume 8, page 40, 

 (1830), describes this moth under the name o^ Penthina ocellana, 

 and in the Supplement, Part 3, page 51, (1835), it is stated by Herr 

 Moritz that there are two varieties ; one with the middle of the fore 

 wing wholly white, the caterpillar of which lives in Sorbiis aucuparla. 

 It is pale reddish gray, with black head and thoracic shield. Of the 

 darker variety, the pupae have been found only on alder, but they 

 probably live on other kinds of trees. In July the moths are fre- 

 quently found in larch forests. 



Stephens, in his Illustrations, Volume 4, page 92, (1834), describes 

 this moth under the name of Spilonota comitana. He states that it 

 is extremely abundant in the vicinity of London, and not uncommon 

 in other parts of the country. The caterpillar feeds on the hornbeam, 

 and the moth appears on the wing about the middle of June. 



Duponchel, in the Histoire naturelle des Lepidopt^res, Tome 6, 



