76 t^P"^' 



LOZ 'PERA DILUCIDANA, Stph. 

 (PL II, fig. 6). 



= Tortrix Hagellaim, Dp. + c, Ti. Is., 1847, 663. , 



Hob. : Englatstd. Sicily, Syracuse, 11, V (var. c, Zell. Coll.). 

 Larva in stems of Pastinaca sativa and Seracleum spliondylium. 



The specimen which Zeller records in the Isis 2^^ flagellana, var. c, 

 from Syracuse is really dilucidana, Stph. This species has probably 

 been overlooked in intermediate localities, and I cannot say with 

 certainty that it occurs elsewhere. 



These two species are easily separable from those above described 

 by the first fascia being invariably broken below the costa in both, and 

 the second also in flaqellana. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. 



Fig. 1 — Lozopera francillonana, F. Fig. 4 — Lozopera tornella, Wism. 

 „ 2 — „ hilba'ensis, Rsslr. „ 5 — „ heatricella, Wlsm. 



„ 3 — „ flagellana. Dp. » 6 — „ dilucidana, Stph. 



{a, lateral aspect ; h, dorsal aspect ; c, ventral aspect ; d, anal aspect). 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 



February, 1898. 



NOTE ON THE LARVA OF CIDAEIA SAGITTATA. 

 BY HEEBEET FOETESCUE EEYEE. 



In looking through an old volume of the Ent. Mo. Mag. (vol. xii, 

 1875-6) I came across a note by Mr. William Saunders on a habit of 

 the larva of Gidaria sagittata. 



Mr. Saunders says, on the authority of Mr. Alfred Fryer, con- 

 firmed by his own observations, that these larvse have a habit of 

 " gnawing the stems of their food-plant and feeding on the withered 

 leaves." 



For some years I bred this species annually, and I have had it 

 feeding naturally in my garden on three species of Thalictrum, T. 

 Jlavum (its food-plant in a wild state) T. aquilegifolium and (but 

 only occasionally), on T. minus. Eventually I lost it, and I then 

 transplanted some of the food-plant from the locality given by 

 Newman to a ditch on one of my farms, and founded a colony, now 

 some five or six years old. 



I have entered into these particulars to show that I have had 

 some opportunity of watching this very retiring species (I say retiring, 



