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sluggish, rather stout, and attenuated slightly behind, with well-marked divisions, 

 and a distinct wrinkle across the back of each abdominal segment ; semi-transparent, 

 and of a pinky-white colour ; with large and prominent red spots ; brown shining 

 heads ; shining thoracic plates varying in tint from the body-colour to pale grey or 

 greenish-grey, with a blackish border behind ; and having the large spot, made up 

 of the fused dorsal spots on the back of thirteen, dark grey or blackish, with a band of 

 the same colour across the base of the anal flap. A pair of white belts cross the back 

 of eacb segment, occupying the ridges on either side the transverse wrinkle : the 

 anterior belt extends from the big spot in the spiracular region to the corresponding 

 spot on the other side, and includes the anterior trapezoidals ; the posterior is 

 narrower and shorter, reaching no farther than the sub-dorsal region, and includes 

 the posterior trapezoidals. On 3, 4, and 13, there is only one belt, the posterior 

 being absent. It is in these belts that the chief distinction between the two larvae 

 is to be found. In fimbriana they are extremely well marked, their outline sharp, 

 and their colour pure and almost enamel-like — the insect having, in consequence, a 

 pretty, chequered appearance : in argyrana, on the other hand, they are much less 

 distinct, both in colour and outline, and rather give the impression that the ordinary 

 pink tint had faded from these parts, than that there had been any additional deposit 

 of white. It was this character alone that prevented me, when I came across a larva 

 of fimbriana for the first time on July 2nd, 1887, from passing it over as argyrana, 

 with which I am already well acquainted. The spots in fimbriana are, perhaps, 

 better described as chocolate than red, and it is also a rather larger insect. 



Fimbriana makes up in the same way as C. splendidulana, and 

 pupates at once, so that nothing further need be said about it. Its 

 jaw-power, however, is remarkable — I once saw its empty pupa skin 

 sticking out from the surface of a perfectly sound oak paling. Argyrana, 

 on reaching full growth, gets under bark, or creeps into a crevice or 

 into an old broken gall (C. Kollari), enlarging the cavity if need be, 

 but never forming a burrowing chamber ; and remains unchanged till 

 the spring. 



Ephippiphora gallicolana. — This also is an inquiline of the oak 

 apple and woolly gall, occupying them in September and October, 

 when the galls are ripe and dry. Like the two preceding species it 

 gives no outward indications of its • presence, and falls with a like 

 difficulty to the beating stick, but by gathering the galls from trees 

 scattered about in the fields and hedgerows, it may be obtained in 

 abundance. 



The larva has a general resemblance to its fellow inquilines, but is rather more 

 slender, with the surface shining, the divisions less marked, the transverse wrinkle 

 very shallow, and with no trace of the white belts. Up to the last moult the colour 

 is pinky-white, often much obscured by the dark intestinal contents, after this date 

 the pink tint disappears, and it becomes white or whitish. The spots are red and 

 conspicuous, the large spot on the back of thirteen is grey, and a band of the same 

 colour crosses the base of the anal flap. The head in the young larva is shining 



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