EUDOREA MURANA. 193 



BUDOREA MURANA. 



On the 20th of May, 1869, Dr. F. Buchanan White 

 kindly sent me a supply of larvae of Scoparia muralis, 

 together with some of their native food-plants, Bryum 

 capillare and Hypnum cupressiforme, on which they 

 continued to feed till about the end of the month, 

 constructing, by means of slight silken threads, little 

 tunnels for themselves through the moss or the soil at 

 its roots ; and when disturbed they could show con- 

 siderable activity. 



The full-grown larva is five-eighths of an inch in 

 length, very slender, cylindrical, and tapering a little 

 behind, the head rounded, and a trifling degree 

 smaller than the second segment. 



In colour it is either a dingy ochreous-brown, grey- 

 ish-brown, or a turbid violet-brown, darkest on the 

 back, becoming gradually paler towards the ventral 

 surface; a faint indication of the dorsal vessel is 

 visible as a rather darker pulsating stripe, which 

 commences on the second segment, conspicuously 

 dividing the dark brown plate there into two parts ; 

 on the other segments are the ordinary series of 

 tubercular spots, horny, dark brown, and very large 

 in proportion, especially on the back, and shining like 

 the head, thoracic plate, and the anal paler plate ; on 

 the dorsal region of each segment the anterior pair of 

 these spots are circular, and the posterior pair trans- 

 versely oval, and every one is furnished with a fine 

 brown hair. 



No less than fourteen of the moths appeared between 

 the 27th of June and the 8th of July. (William 

 Buckler, January, 1870; E.M.M., June, 1870, VII, 

 13.) 



During March and April, and even well into May, 

 the larvae of Scoparia muralis may be collected in 

 abundance by stripping off the moss on old walls in 



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