44 IN MEMORIAM. 



St. Moritz, in the Upper Engadine, on \aiYch(P{mts larix); 

 but on account of the stormy weather was only able to secure 

 three specimens. Almis viridis grew near the spot, and may 

 perhaps be the food plant of the larva. (1862.) 



In the middle of July, 1863, I found on the Bernina, 

 under stones, the white, three-ribhed cocoons of this species; 

 they were by no means scarce, but were nearly all empty. 

 Only three of them furnished me with the perfect insect, 

 which varies in that the white spots of the anterior wings 

 are more or less obsolete. In the vicinity of these cocoons 

 grew only Chrysanthemum alpinum; hence this is doubtless 

 the food of the larva. 



BuccuLATRix MARITIMA, Stainton, Hcvden (E. Z. 1861, 

 p. 39). During the Annual Meeting of the Oberhessischen 

 Gesellschaft fiir Natur- und Heilkunde, atSalzhausen on the 

 2nd of July, 1859, 1 discovered by the graduation-house of the 

 salt-works, on ^5^67* tripoliumj the larva of this species, which 

 had previously only been found on the sea-coast of England. 



The larva has quite the habits of the allied species. When 

 young, it mines the leaves, in narrow, expanding, slightly 

 curved galleries ; a darker excremental line is perceptible in 

 the centre of the track. It casts its skin outside the mine, 

 for which purpose it spins an oval, flat, thin, white cocoonet, 

 which it afterwards quits through a small hole. It after- 

 wards feeds externally on the under surface of the leaves, 

 and gnaws elongate spots in the substance of the leaf, so 

 that only the upper epidermis remains untouched. 



On the same spot or on the stem the larva constructs a 

 caraway-seed shaped white cocoon, with five more or less 

 stout longitudinal ribs. At its two ends a thinner, flatter 

 continuation is perceptible. The larvag changed to the pupa 

 state the beginning of July, and the moths appeared the be- 



