236 MYELOIS CR113UOI. 



The imagos began to appear on the 6th of July. 

 (Georcre T. Porritt, 5th March, 1879; E.M.M., April, 

 1879 5 XV, 258.) 



Myelois suavella. 

 Plate CLVIII, fig. 5. 



On the 27th of May, 1874, I had the pleasure to 

 receive several larva), which proved to be Bhodophma 

 saavella, found in Herefordshire by Dr. J. H. Wood, 

 who also most kindly furnished me with many inter- 

 esting particulars of their habits. 



The young larva3 were detected on stunted sloe 

 bushes, at first feeding on the leaves under a whitish 

 web, and on becoming larger they constructed along 

 the branches silken galleries more or less covered with 

 their long narrow pellets of frass, neatly arranged 

 side by side. 



As they occurred on a sheep-walk, wool was found 

 adhering to the bushes and sometimes to the webs of 

 the larvae, thus forming a rather tangled mass, faded 

 remnants of leaves, silk, and wool being matted 

 together, and amongst all this their galleries lay, 

 making it difficult to trace them; not that the 

 presence of wool seemed to be necessary, but was only 

 worked through when the larvae found it in their way, 

 many of the galleries being quite free from wool. 



The full-grown larva, when stretched out, varies 

 from a little over five-eighths to nearly six-eighths of 

 an inch in length, cylindrical, slender, tapering but 

 very little in front, though the head is a trifle less 

 than the second segment, Avhile from the eleventh 

 to the anal extremity it tapers gradually ; the head in 

 outline is full and rounded, and its surface roughened; 

 each segment beyond the fourth is subdivided across 

 the back by a deep wrinkle into two portions, the 

 greater portion being in front ; another wrinkle sub- 

 divides the hinder portion, but only on the sides of 



