194 POLTOMMATQS (lYCJJNA) ALEXIS. 



tlie wing-cases, very delicate and shining; colour 

 generally pale green, head pale brownish, wing-cases 

 with a very faint brown tinge, a dark green line down 

 the middle of the back of abdomen, the spiracles 

 whitish, a few short bristles scattered on the skin. 

 (J. H., 7, 10, 85.) 



Dr. R. C. R. Jordan informs me that he often 

 found this species hibernating as a larva when he was 

 in Devonshire ; specially on one occasion when, in 

 company with Mr. Stainton, he was searching for cases 

 of Coleophora discordella on Lotus comiculatus . I am 

 the more glad of this corroboration because Alexis has . 

 been said to hibernate in the egg, and again as a 

 pupa ; and Dr. Jordan thinks that in colder localities 

 this last view represents the true state of the case. 

 (J. H., 31, 10, 1885.) 



Steeopes Paniscus. 



Plate XVII, fig. 1 (see ante, p. 129). 



The larvae, which Mr. Buckler figured and described, 

 came into my possession in February, 1884; I found 

 them hibernating in their silken caves among the 

 growing blades of the plant of Brachypodium sylvaticum, 

 on which he had reared them, and for the purpose of 

 taking them with me I was obliged to cut off these 

 caves and put them in a tin box, and in so doing I 

 may have disturbed their rest. On bringing them 

 home I placed the caves on a fresh plant of the grass, 

 which stood in my window enclosed in a glass cylinder, 

 and before long the larvae left them and walked 

 about the grass, until they all got to the top edge of 

 the cylinder or its gauze covering, and there, after 

 doing a little spinning, they fastened themselves by 

 their tails, and with a silken belt round the middle, and 

 became pupae during the second and third weeks of 

 March. I suppose this may be their natural habit, 



