190 EUDOREA TRUNCICOLELLA. 



tapering only at the anal extremity; it is rounded above 

 but rather flatter ventral ly ; the segments are very 

 clearly defined, the divisions being deeply cut all 

 round ; the skin has a rather tough appearance ; the 

 polished tubercles are large and prominent, and as 

 usual there are a few short but not very noticeable 

 hairs. 



The ground colour is a dingy dark olive-brown ; the 

 head and mandibles are dark brown, the frontal plate 

 nearly black. (When younger the head is pale brown, 

 with the mandibles and frontal plate darker sienna- 

 brown.) A dingy black pulsating vessel shows 

 distinctly as the dorsal stripe ; the hairs and tubercles 

 are black. The ventral surface is similar to the 

 ground of the dorsal area ; the legs are black. There 

 are no other perceptible lines or markings, and the 

 larva altogether is a very dingy-looking creature. 



For the most part they kept to their silken galleries 

 in the moss, but on damp evenings were to be seen 

 crawling over the surface, and were then very lively, 

 and would wriggle about like the larvse of a Tortrix ; 

 they seemed much more active than the rather stouter 

 larvse of Scoparia muralis [Eudorea murana]. 



They changed to pupae in the moss, and the first 

 imago emerged on the 6th of August, and was 

 followed during the next fortnight by about thirty 

 more beautiful specimens. (George T. Porritt, 7th 

 September, 1881; E.M.M., October, 1881, XVIII, 

 106.) 



EuDOREA FREQUENTELLA. 



Plate CLV, fig. 6. 



On the 14th of April last, 1885, I received from 

 Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, of Worthing, a box containing 

 mosses, in which were feeding (living in silken 

 galleries) a number of Scoparia larvae, but of what 

 species Mr. Fletcher was uncertain* The mosses I 





