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back arched, dull, dark green, with two whitish longitudinal 

 lines along the back ; the sides paler, and pale warts, each 

 bearing a hair. Head rather narrower than the second seg- 

 ment; shining, brown, spotted with yellowish. Second seg- 

 ment shining, greenish, the anterior edge broadly whitish ; 

 posteriorly it bears a brown spot twice interrupted by a pale 

 line. Anal segment of the same colour. Anterior legs 

 black. 



2. Larva of almost equal breadth throughout, rather 

 flattened, with a greasy shining appearance, grey-green, 

 with very small dark warts, each bearing a pale hair; on 

 each side of the back is a faint paler longitudinal stripe. 

 Head nearly as broa^ as the second segment, shining, yel- 

 lowish-brown, spotted with black. Second segment shining, 

 grey-green, with a broad black spot and two greenish longi- 

 tudinal lines. Anal segment similarly coloured. ■ Anterior 

 legs black. 



Both larvae changed to the pupa state in a long, rather 

 tubular, whitish cocoon, with open holes like a sieve ; the 

 cocoon was fastened to any substance on the ground. The 

 pupa of tlie $ had short wing-sheaths. 



The larvae are not scarce about Frankfort and Mayence 

 at the beginning of May between united leaves on the ter- 

 minal twigs of privet {Ligustrum vulgare). The perfect 

 insect makes its appearance in November. (1829.) 



Depressaria propinquella, Tr. Heyden (E. Z. 1862, 

 p. 174). The larva feeds about Frankfort at the end of 

 June and beginning of July on the underside of the large 

 leaves of the burdock {Arctium lappa), drawing with its 

 silk a portion of the leaf into a longitudinal fold, in which it 

 lives. I have also found it at the same time on Serratula 

 arvensis; on this plant it folds a leaf upwards like a gutter. 



1868. c 



