238 MYELOIS SUAVE1, LA. 



wanted earth to make up in. (William Buckler, 13th 

 May, 1875 ; B.M.M., June, 1875, XII, 13.) 



Myelois advenella. 



On the 6th of June, 1878, I beat an exceedingly 

 pretty larva from hawthorn. 



It was cylindrical, moderately stout, light pea-green, 

 with bright purplish-pink subdorsal stripes ; the head 

 pale brown, eyes darker, plates green, the purple-pink 

 stripes being continued upon the dorsal plate. 



It spun a tough silken cocoon attached to a dead 

 leaf, in which it became a chestnut-brown pupa, and 

 after lying in pupa for about a month the moth 

 (Rhodoplixa advenella) emerged on the 15th of July. 



The description of this larva, quoted by Dr. Hof- 

 mann from Zincken and Treitschke, is : — " Naked, 

 spindle-shaped, of a beautiful green, with red-brown 

 lateral lines ; head red-brown. In May and June, in 

 the flowers of hawthorn. Pupating in the earth in 

 a slight web." (C. G. Barrett, 8th October, 1878; 

 E.M.M., January, 1879, XV, 182.) 



Myelois ma km ore a. 

 Plate CLYIII, fig. 6. 



On the 23rd of May, 1873, Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, 

 of Preston, kindly sent me a larva of Bhodophsea 

 marmorea, which, with more than a dozen others, he 

 had obtained by beating from dwarfed and stunted 

 miserable-looking sloe bushes scattered over the side 

 of Whitbarrow, in Westmorland. 



Mr. Hodgkinson informs me that he can always tell 

 at a glance whether this larva is on a bush, and that 

 he finds invariably the principal indications of its 

 presence to be the stunted appearance, combined with 



