DEPRESSARIA BAD1ELLA. 333 



Mr. W. II. B. Fletcher, from which we reproduce the 

 following :] 



Two small points in the life-history seem to require 

 notice. 



Mr. Buckler alludes to the larvas making a trans- 

 parent blotch, while I find it by the dark brown marks, 

 on the leaf of the food-plant. Mr. Buckler, no doubt, 

 refers to the immediate result of the feeding of the 

 larva, I to the more distant, when the milky juice of 

 the plant has produced a brown stain on the wounded 

 leaf. 



The " odd shape " of the pupa mentioned in the 

 extract from my letter has reference to the difference 

 between the flattened pupa of a Depressaria and the 

 expected cylindrical one of a Botys. (W. H. B. 

 Fletcher, 14th May, 1884 ; E.M.M., June, 1884, XXI, 

 5.) 



Gelechia domestica. 

 Plate CLXII, fig. 11. 



On the 4th of May, 1878, Mr. Barrett sent me 

 three larva? found in moss on an old wall, tenanting 

 little silken pouches, three-eighths of an inch in length, 

 very little if any tapered in front, but the last two 

 segments decidedly tapered, the hind legs brought 

 close together behind, the segments with a transverse 

 wrinkle about the middle. 



In colour the head is rich reddish-brown, marked 

 with darker blackish brown on each lobe at the side ; 

 on the second segment is a black brown shining plate 

 finely divided with a line of buff; on the rest of the 

 body is a broad stripe of buff colour down the back, 

 along the middle of which runs the dorsal line of 

 brown ; the sides are purplish brown, marbled with 

 buff beneath ; the belly is rather paler pinkish-grey ; 

 the usual trapezoidal spots are blackish brown, con- 

 spicuous, rather large, the hinder pairs quite a trifle 



