42 CLEDEOBIA ANdUSTALIS. 



this interesting larva I am indebted to the kindness 

 of Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, of Worthing. A few 

 specimens reached me on the 13th of June, 1884, and 

 I described them as follows : 



Length about an inch, slender, and of almost 

 uniform width throughout ; the head and frontal plate 

 are glossy ; the former has the lobes rounded, and is 

 slightly narrower than the second segment ; the body 

 is cylindrical, with the segments clearly defined; the 

 third, fourth, and fifth have several transverse de- 

 pressions, which give them a wrinkled appearance, 

 and the remaining segments have each one transverse 

 depression ; the skin altogether has a tough appear- 

 ance. There are two forms. 



In var. 1 the ground colour is dirty smoky-black ; 

 the head is perfectly black ; the frontal plate is dark 

 chocolate-brown ; the anal segment pale brown. The 

 only other perceptible marking is the perfectly black, 

 but indistinct, medio-dorsal line ; the ventral surface 

 and prolegs are uniformly of a rather paler shade of 

 the colour of the dorsal area, and having a tinge of 

 dark green ; the anterior legs are perfectly black. 



In var. 2 the ground colour is pale chocolate-brown, 

 strongly suffused, however, especially on the anterior 

 segments, with dirty smoke-colour ; head perfectly 

 black ; frontal plate chocolate -brown, edged in front 

 with black ; side tubercles and spiracles smoke-colour ; 

 ventral surface and prolegs pale chocolate-brown, 

 with a greenish tinge ; the second, third, and fourth 

 segments, and the anterior legs black. 



Mr. Fletcher found the larvae feeding on damp 

 ground in a species of moss, which, after examination 

 of the old withered remnants left by my larvae, Mr. 

 C. P. Hobkirk believes to be Hypnum cupressiforme. 

 I kept the moss saturated with water, and probably 

 the larvae would not have kept healthy had it been 

 allowed to become dry. They live completely hidden 

 in the moss, but their whereabouts is easily seen from 

 the patches of frass which are thrown above, and 



