26 EUPITHECIA PYGMJ1ATA. 



of this interesting little stranger. (H. Harpur- 

 Crewe, 21st June, 1872; E.M.M., August, 1872, IX, 

 65; and Entom., August, 1872, VI, 166.) 



E UPITHECIA JASTONE ATA. 



Plate CXXXI, fig. 6. 



On the 21st of September, 1879, came a moth bred 

 about the middle of May, 1879, accompanied by two 

 larvae feeding in the seed-heads of Jasione montana, 

 from Mr. Robert Ficklin, of Keynsham, near Bristol. 

 The larvse were said to be precisely the same as those 

 from which the moth had been bred, with others like 

 it to the number of about thirty. The larvae were all 

 taken on the same food growing in Devonshire in 

 1878. Mr. Ficklin stated that he sent one of the 

 moths to the Rev. H. Harpur-Crewe, who thought it 

 was a variety of E. castigata ; but as Mr. Ficklin felt 

 convinced it was not that species, he had gone after 

 the larvae into Devonshire again this year (1879), but 

 was too soon for them, and he only got about two 

 dozen very small ones, which have grown up to the 

 size of those now sent to me ; he sent two of the 

 larvae to Mr. Crewe, who advised him to send a moth 

 to me, and one or two larvae for me to figure. On 

 the 26th of September Mr. Ficklin sent me six more 

 of the larvae and some dry seed-heads on which they 

 were feeding; and in the meantime I had detected 

 two more larvae in the heads previously sent. Mr. 

 Ficklin mentioned the seed-heads to be of some sort 

 of scabious, and Mr. Harpur-Orewe spoke of them as 

 Scabiosa succisa, and I readily believed they were until 

 I gathered one or two to give to the larvae, and then I 

 saw at once that the larvae were not on any kind of 

 scabious heads ; but after some delay, and reference 

 to the plates of ' English Botany,' it soon appeared 

 that they were the seed-heads of Jasione Montana. 



Mr. Harpur-Crewe and myself were both struck by 



