1887.] 143 



Fore-wing dull pintish-oclireons, clouded with tawny ; a tawny streak from the 

 centre of the base and along the costa. From the inner margin near the base a dark 

 tawny shade runs obliquely to the centre of the fore- wing, and thence curved and 

 broader to the costa; on its outer edge is a black dot, from which indistinct tawny 

 streaks radiate towards the apex and anal angle, and often a smaller dot stands on 

 the inner edge. Fringes with two dark brown dividing lines, divergent, and vanishing 

 before the anal angle. Teeth of scales brown ; the larger at the beginning of the 

 fascia, the smaller just before the centre of the inner margin. The falcate appear- 

 ance of the fore-wing is still more conspicuous in this species than in chcerophyllellus ^ 

 inasmuch as the dark outer dividing line of the fringes describes a much ampler 

 curve below the apex, and so a much larger space of the fringes themselves is left 

 pale and unmargined. VI e, VIT b, and VIII, IX. 



Larva yellowish-green, dorsal vessel darker, head yellowish. On 

 Angelica sylvestris and JEgopodium podagraria. It is the spring brood, 

 feeding in May and June, which lives, as the Manual has it, in crum- 

 pled leaves, after the fashion of Depressaria angelicella. The summer 

 brood was found by the Rev. C. E. Digby in August, eating round 

 holes through the sheaths of the unexpanded umbels of Angelica, and 

 feeding on the immature flowers within. The insect is probably of 

 more general distribution than is commonly supposed. It is abundant 

 in the fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk where the Angelica 

 flourishes. 



3. daucellus, Peyerimhoff, Pet. Nouv., 1870, 15, 57 ; Stn., E. A., 1873, p. 49, N. H. 

 T., xii, 82. 



Fore-wing long, narrow, with straight costa ; bone colour, more or less tinged 

 with ochreous, but always with the entire inner margin and a narrow streak along 

 the centre of the wing reaching to the apex, left of the pale ground colour. A 

 brownish cloud at the base and along the costa ; a very narrow oblique greyish-brown 

 fascia runs from the inner margin at one-third from the base to the costa, where it 

 broadens out into a more distinct blotch ; in the central pale streak before the apex 

 is a largish dark brown spot ; on the costa just before the apex are two or three dark 

 spots, and in some cases one or two near the base. Head whitish-ochreous ; palpi 

 dark grey, teeth of scales blackish ; the first, the largest, at the base of the fascia ; 

 the rest smaller, at equal distances beyond ; the dividing lines of the fringes not 

 interrupted below the apex, but diverging from each other, and vanishing long before 

 the anal angle. 



With us the first brood flies in Midsummer, and the second in 

 September and October. Larvae yellowish-green, with slightly darker 

 dorsal vessel ; head black ; hinder edge of 2nd segment with a black 

 plate divided in the centre ; spots large and black. On Dauctis caroia, 

 mining the tips of the leaves, so that they become pale brown. The 

 larvae -were first found in England by Mr. Digby in August and Sep- 

 tember, 1883, and in the followang spring by Mr. Fletcher in the Isle 

 of Wight. 



