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Epischnia Boisduvaliella, Gn. 



" Larva 9 mm. Upper-surface red, slightly tinged with green, the dorsal region 

 a little deeper, having on each side three or four fine lines, faintly marked, and 

 slightly reddish, much confused and interrupted at the incisions of the segments. 

 Under-surface yellowish-green, brighter than the upper. Head shining pale red ; 

 mouth reddish-black ; thoracic plate large, shining, a little paler than the head ; 

 spiracles large, black, the first two larger, the last two smaller, than all the rest ; 

 anal plate wanting. Lives in the pods of leguminous plants, Ononis arvensis, 

 Astragalus {Anthyllis), Lotus ; chiefly on the last. The egg is laid on the upper lip 

 of the calyx ; the larva enters the pod at its apex, eats out the seeds, and leaves it 

 by its lower end, attacking the nearest fresh pod, which it enters by the other end, 

 which is nearly always in contact with the sand. It avails itself of this circum- 

 stance to spin some grains of sand against the end of the pod, to mask it from its 

 enemies, till it has had time to gain the interior. Larvae found July 12th, 

 pupated on 18th, in an oval silken cocoon, finely woven, and pure white, covered 

 with grains of sand ; the imagos emerged August m. ; the larvae found in September, 

 in the pods of Astragalus, spin their cocoon at the end of the same month, to emerge 

 the following May." 



It is very probable that this double-broodedness is confined to 

 the warmer districts in the south of France. But, as especial atten- 

 tion has not been directed to the detection of an autumn brood in 

 England, it may yet occur here. At all events, the imago emerges in 

 May with us, as in France. 



TORTRIX DUMETANA., Tr. 

 " Larva green, with paler longitudinal stripes ; on 31entha aquatica and rotundi- 

 folia, Teucrium scorodonia, and especially on Scrojjhulai'ia aquatica." 



In Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xvi, p. 194, larvae of S. lacunana, mentioned 

 by Mr. Barrett as having been found by me in"Wicken Fen on various 

 low plants, " green, with light and dark stripes," really belonged to 

 dumetana. 



Penthina (Sideria) achatafa, F. 

 " Larva smoky-black, beneath rather yellowish ; head and thoracic plate 

 shining black; living in a web covered with dry leaves, and attached to the lower 

 twigs of bushes of hawthorn, in company with M. suavella, which it much resembles ; 

 pupating the middle of May, in one end of the gallery ; the imago appears early in 

 June." 



Two years ago, Mr. A. Thurnall bred the imago along with 

 suavella, from larvae collected in Epping Forest, without distinguishing 

 one from the other. 



ECCOPSIS LATIFASCIANA, Haw. 



Larva shining pale yellow, with the alimentary canal in places showing blackish- 

 green ; head round, black ; thoracic plate reddish ; anal plate rather large, shining, 



