310 CRAMBUS FUUCATELLUS. 



The young larva is of a pinkish-brown with very 

 dark brown shining head and plate behind it, and 

 with excessively minute brown dots and fine hairs, 

 and is rather active for so small a creature. (William 

 Buckler, August, 1871 ; Note Book I, 118.) 



Crambus mahgaritellus. 



Specimens of C. margaritellus which I took on 

 Thorne Waste, near Goole, on the 9th of July, 1881, 

 deposited eggs, which were oval, highly polished, and 

 salmon colour. (George T. Porritt, Note Book, 13th 

 July, 1881.) 



CltAMBUS PINETELLUS. 



Plate CLX, fig. 11. 



On the 1st of August, 1872, Dr. F. Buchanan 

 White, then at Bastferry near Dunkeld, kindly sent 

 me some loose eggs of this species in a quill, and they 

 hatched from the 14th to the 16th of the same month. 



Not knowing what food the larvae required, and 

 happening to have then unengaged a tuft of Erio- 

 phorum vaginatum growing in a pot, I ventured to put 

 the young larvae round the base of the grass, and then 

 encircled the tuft with about an inch of damp moss. 

 I then took no further trouble with them throughout 

 the succeeding winter beyond attending to the health 

 of the grass, in watering it and exposing it to the air 

 at intervals as the weather permitted. 



Early in May, 1873, I observed that very few fresh 

 green shoots made their appearance from the old 

 brown tuft, so on the 9th I turned it out of the pot to 

 examine its state. I found that the rootlets of most 

 of the grass had disappeared, but whether they had 

 been eaten, or had rotted away in the damp peaty 

 soil, I was unable to decide. 



