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Nephopteryx splendidella, Herr.-Sch. 



BEIT. REF. : — 



Nephopteryx splendidella, Stainton, Buckler, and Wood, Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. xxiv. p. 269. 



Nephopteryx sylvestrella, Ragonot, E. M. M. xxii. p. 52. 



Dioryctria splendidella, Ragonot, E. M. M. xxiv. p. 224. 



Larger than N. abietella {= decuriella, Htibn.), " with a large 

 patch of reddish brown before the first line/' — (Ragonot.) 



Introduced by Mr. Stainton, May, 1888. 



Note. — This species has probably been in some British 

 collections for many years past, mixed up with N. abietella. 

 Mr. Stainton (I. c.) publishes extracts from the note-books of the 

 late Mr. Buckler, in which (under the name of Phycis abietella) 

 this larva is described, and its curious habits fully set forth. In 

 August, 1874, Mr. Buckler received from Dr. Wood a spruce fir 

 cone, containing a larva of N. splendidella, but this did not 

 attain the imago condition. From a large larva, received on 

 September 7th, 1877, Mr. Buckler bred a moth on June 14th, 

 1878. Between the years 1874 and 1879, Mr. Buckler appears 

 to have had several infested spruce cones sent to him by Dr. 

 Wood, but he observed that only the largest larvae became 

 moths, and he inclined to the view that the smaller larvse, received 

 late in the autumn, were not full grown, and required another 

 year to become mature. This, however, they failed to do in 

 confinement. 



M. Ragonot says, " The larva is pinkish white, changing to 

 greenish, without any lines ; the head is reddish brown, the second 

 segment brown-black, ordinary spots very distinct. It lives in the 

 trunks of old firs, under the bark, causing abundant-exudations of 

 resin." 



Nephopteryx genistella, Dup. (PI. IV. fig. 5.) 



BEIT. REF. I — 



Phycis davisellus, Newman, Entom. v. p. 445 ; Moore, op. cit. 



vi. p. 199; Doubleday, op. cit. vii. p. 112; List, Suppl. 



p. 2; Moncreaff, Entom. vii. p. 132 (larva); Vaughan, 



Proc. Ent. Soc. 1873; Blackburn, Ent. Mo. Mag. xiv. 



p. 159. 

 Pempelia albariella, Knaggs, Ent. Mo. Mag. viii. p. 163; 



Entom. Ann. 1872, p. 118. 

 Phycis (?) davisellus, Buckler, E. M. M. x. p. 89 (larva). 

 Nephopteryx genistella, Doubleday, Entom. viii. p. 41; E. M. 



M. xi. p. 211; South, Syn. List, p. 21; Leech, Brit. 



Pyral. p. 104, pi. xii. fig. 8. 

 Pempelia genistella, Weston, Entom. x. p. 11 9 ; Dale, E. M. M. 



xvi. p. 186. 

 " Fore wings fuscous greyish, whitish along the inner margin, 

 especially towards the base of the wing ; before the first line is a 



