LARVAE AND FOOD-PLANTS. 31 



Luperina dumerili. 



(Food-plant at present unknown). 



Luperina cespitis. 



Poa annua — Annual Meadow-grass. 

 Also on other grasses. 



Mamestra abjecta. 



Artemisia maritima — Sea AVormwood. 

 Mamestra sordida (anceps). 



(Grass ; species at present unknown). 

 Mamestra albicolon. 



Chenopodiiun Vulvaria — Slinking Goose-foot ; Orach. 

 ,, album — White Goose-foot. 



„ Bonus- Hetiricus — Good King Henry. 



Atriplex patula — Orach. 



,, laciniata — Sea Orach. 

 In gardens on lettuce. 



Mamestra furva. 



Corjnep/wrus (^Aira") canescens, 

 Mamestra brassicae. 



Chenopodtum Vulvaria — Stinking Goose-foot ; Orach. 

 „ album — White Goose-foot. 



Bomis-Henricus — Good King Henry. 

 Rumex — Dock. 

 Also on man}' other plants. 

 Mamestra persicariae. 



Satnbucus nigra — Elder. 

 Also on low plants. 

 Apamea basilinea. 



Agropyron {Triticum') — Wheat. On the grain, afterwards on 

 various low plants. 

 Apamea connexa. 



Grass in woods ; species unknown. In the stems (?). 

 Apamea gemina. 



Poa annua — Annual Meadow-grass. In confinement. 

 Agropyron {Triticurn) repens — Couch-grass. In confine- 

 ment. 

 Phalaris arundinacea — Reed Canary Grass. In confinement. 

 Apamea unanimis. 



Agropyron {Triticuni) repens — Couch-grass. In confine- 

 ment. 

 Phalaris arundinacea— Rtti Canary Grass. 



„ canariensis — Canary Grass. 

 Carex — Sedge. 



