CNEPHASIA VIRGAUREANA. 329 



Cnephasia VIRGAUREANA. 



A larva of Sciaphila virgaureana found by Mr. 

 Barrett between united leaves of Teucrium scorodonia 

 on the 26th of May, 1871, was figured by me on the 

 2nd of June. The moth was named by Mr. Henry 

 Doubleday. 



The larva is about half an inch long, attenuated at 

 each end and thickest in the middle of the body. The 

 head is small, of an ochreous brown colour, with the 

 mouth blackish. The back is of a greenish-grey tint, 

 the sides of a rather paler ochreous green, and the 

 ventral surface the same. There is a distinct dorsal 

 line of darker ochreous green and a broad subdorsal 

 stripe of the same colour but indistinctly showing 

 through the skin. The paler green of the lower parts 

 commences distinctly along the line of the spiracles, 

 which are small, of the ground colour and ringed with 

 brown. The ordinary tubercular dots are blackish 

 brown, each with a very fine short hair of whitish. 

 The anterior legs are black. There is a brown plate 

 on the second segment, margined in front with a pale 

 fold of skin, and this plate is black on each side. A 

 similar plate is on the anal tip, and the spots on the 

 upper portion of this segment are larger than the 

 others. (William Buckler, June 2nd, 1871 ; Note 

 Book I, 95.) 



Depressaria. badiella. 



Plate CLXII, fig. 9. 



On the 28th of May, 1882, I received in a quill 

 three little larvae found the previous morning by Mr. 

 W. H. B. Fletcher on Freshwater Down, Isle of 

 Wight, living under the leaves of Hypochseris radicata, 

 one of the Compositx, of which three little plants 

 accompanied the larvae. 



