1887.] 127 



The larva hatches out in the autumn, hibernates small, begins to 

 feed again in the spring, and becomes full-fed towards the end of 

 May. For a short time after leaving the egg, it lives inside a needle, 

 but afterwards for the rest of its life it occupies, like its congener, 

 prceangusfa, a gallery, that it spins on the surface of a twig. This 

 gallery is of a brown colour, close texture, and even regular form, but 

 in time it gets so covered up by the accumulation of frass that it 

 comes to bear a rough resemblance to the loose, untidy, habitations of 

 Coccyx hercyniana and nanana. £■. pinicolella, however, always hides 

 within its gallery, and usually eats out the leaves for only half their 

 length ; the Tortrices, on the other hand, as invariably hide within an 

 excavated needle, and in feeding clean out each needle thoroughly 

 before attacking a fresh one. When full-fed, it spins on the under- 

 side of the same or an adjoining twig a slender, somewhat flattened, 

 brown cocoon, with rounded ends, and rather wider at one extremity 

 than the other ; the general appearance being strikingly like the larval 

 gallery before it acquires its covering of frass. 



The larva in its first skin is yellowish-brown, with black head and 

 thoracic plate, and rather long and conspicuous hairs. It then moults 

 and acquires the form and characters which it retains without appre- 

 ciable change to the end, so that the following desci'iption will stand 

 for any stage in its subsequent development : — 



Eather slender, not attenuated, cylindrical, with the divisions deeply cut. 

 Segments, when viewed from above, flat-sided, not rounded, and with a transverse 

 wi'inkle across the back of each. Colour, reddish-brown. Head black and shining. 

 Thoracic plate black, with a white colour in front. Anal plate not noticeable. 

 Hairs pale and inconspicuous. The pupa is long and slender, the limb-cases 

 reaching nearly to the end of the abdomen, and being free at their tips for about 

 the breadth of a segment. Colour, a pale dull brown, with a green tinge in the 

 wing-cases. 



Tarrington, Ledbury : 



October Uh, 1887. 



AN" ENTOMOLOGICAL EAMBLE AT BEEGEN, NOEWAY, 

 AUaUST 20th, 1887. 



BY EOBEET C. R. JORDAN, M.D. 



It was a glorious day, very warm, and the sun shining very 

 brightly, so taking a net with me, I walked towards the Ploien, to see 

 what might be found in the way of Lepidopterous life in rather a high 

 latitude. 



The first moth seen was Ortholitha limitata (clicnopodiata) , of 

 which three or four were disturbed from the grass and Centaurea bv the 



