184 EUD0KEA CEMBRjE. 



but this tapering is but slight. The colour of the 

 head, which is a trifle flattened, is reddish-brown ; the 

 mouth, largely developed, a little darker with black 

 jaws, very glossy ; the second segment is equally 

 glossy, with lighter orange-brown plate with not well- 

 defined edges ; the general ground colour of the body 

 is pale watery greyish ochreous, having a dull skin 

 suggestive of ground glass ; and the usual large spots 

 of this genus appear as of clear polished glass, and 

 the dark grey internal dorsal vessel and quite broad 

 stomach on most of the interior segments show 



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through them with great distinctness, and indeed 

 show through the other dull parts also but in lesser 

 degree ; a minute blackish dot is on each clear spot, 

 giving forth a fine dusky hair ; the spiracles are round, 

 black, and shining, and rather prominent. 



They are very active larvse, and move backward or 

 forward equally well amongst the root stems, making 

 quantities of frass and spinning silk threads forming 

 tunnel-like entrances to their burrows. 



On the 25th two had spun up in cocoons formed of 

 gnawings of root and particles of earth ; others were 

 still feeding. On the 31st two more had spun up in 

 slight cocoons covered with gnawings of the roots, 

 and another between the root stems. 



The pupa is quite of the ordinary form, 9 mm. long, 

 and of moderate substance ; the wing-covers are 

 rather long, and closely wrapped to the body ; from 

 them the abdomen tapers to the blunt tip, furnished 

 with fine bristly points embedded in the silk of the 

 cocoon so as not to be accurately denned. The colour 

 is darkish brown, and rather shining. 



No moth was bred from either of the above. 

 (William Buckler, June, 1882; Note Book IV, 

 111.) 



We are so accustomed to associate in our minds 

 the larvse of the Scopariae [Eudorede~\ with mosses and 

 lichens, that it is quite startling to find one of them, 

 like the subject of this note, feeding on Picris 



