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and anal tip being bard shining black. Under a lens 

 all the warts come out distinctly, — black and shining, 

 and furnished with hairs. After a moult or two the 

 colouring becomes much as it continues up to full 

 growth, and the whole appearance of the larva — both 

 in figure and tint — makes one see at once that it is 

 an internal feeder, and at the same time very little 

 like the larva of any other Eupithecia on our native 

 list. (John Hellins, 31st August, 1872; B.M.M., 

 October, 1872, IX, 113 ; also William Buckler, June, 

 1873, Note Book I, 192, who adds that a female moth 

 emerged on 13th June, 1873, and that this was the 

 first larva ever seen and reared, and the moth the 

 first ever bred in this or any other country.) 



Description. — General colour dull pinkish-brown. 

 Central, dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines whitish, 

 indistinct, especially the two latter. Skin wrinkled ; 

 body sparsely studded with black tubercles and short 

 hairs. Head and collar horny and glossy, dusky 

 brown. 



An odd, internal-looking animal, strongly resembling 

 a miniature Cossus ligniperda. 



Feeds inside the buds and young shoots of spruce fir. 



Hatched on the 18th of July. Full-fed the last 

 week in August. 



I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev* John 

 Hellins, of Exeter, for the opportunity of seeing and 

 describing this hitherto, I believe, undescribed larva. 

 Mr. Hellins reared it from the egg. Mr. Buckler has 

 succeeded in taking its portrait. (H. Harpur- Crewe, 

 2nd September, 1872; E.M.M., October, 1872, IX, 

 114.) 



On the 6th of September, 1875, Sir Thomas 

 Moncreiffe, Mr. W. Herd, and I started for a locality 

 where Eupithecia togata has occurred tolerably freely, 

 with a resolute determination not to return home till 

 we had found the larva and made ourselves thoroughly 

 acquainted with its food-plant and habits. The 

 perfect insect always occurs in the neighbourhood of 



