60 PTEROPHORIDiE, 



The ground-colour of the larva is green, with white 

 hairs ; dorsal stripe wide, purplish ; head yellowish 

 green, marked with black ; mouth browu ; auterior legs 

 black. Frey. 



Note. — This description of the larva seems to agree 

 with the larva oi plagiodactylus, which is only a variety 

 of bipunctidactyla. Eut. xviii. 9y. 



Mimseseoptilns zophodactylus, Dup. 



loewii, Zell. 



(Plate, 17. fig. 6.) 



Loc. Bramham, Sandburn, Norwich, Merton, Ness, 

 Burton, Ilitchin, Lancashire, Isle of Wight, Tilgate 

 Forest, Saffron Walden, Pembroke. 



Occurs in August, probably also in June. Hodgkin- 

 soni, Greg., is only a slight variety of this species. 



The larva feeds from July to September in the green 

 seed-eapsules oi Erythrata centaur v am, which it hollows 

 out, living well concealed in the interior ; it leaves the 

 plant in September to pupate. 



The ground-colour of the larva is yellowish green ; 

 dorsal and subdorsal stripes dark ; segmental divisions 

 deeply cut ; head dusky, with two black spots ; larva 

 covered with light brown hairs. A. Schmid. 



The following note was kindly sent me by Mr. South ; 

 it seems to apply to this larva : — 



"In September 1881, I had a Plume-larva sent me 

 from Sussex ; it was feeding in the flowers of Erythra'a 

 centaureum, but I failed to rear the imago. 



" Length 5 Hues, tapering towards anal extremity ; 

 head shining yellowish green, smaller than second scg- 



