PTEKOPHOKIDyE. 65 



Larva in seed-heads of golden rod {Solidago viry- 

 aurea) in October. Length 4-5 lines, plump, tapering 

 towards eaeli end. Head smaller than second segment, 

 light brown ; with reddish-brown mandibles, and a black 

 spot on each cheek. 



Ground-colour whity brown with greenish tinge, and 

 thickly dotted with minute black dots; dorsal sti-ipc 

 and subdorsal line pale rosy pink ; tubercles incon- 

 spicuous, hardly raised above the surface of the skin, 

 dorsal two rows (two on each segment) each emit a 

 single brownish hair of moderate length. These hairs 

 on the third, fourth, and fifth segments curve forwards, 

 those of other segments backwards ; lateral series con- 

 sist of one wart on each segment with a moderately long 

 hair; spiracles black ; prolegs pale brown. E.. S. 



Leioptilus microdactylus, Hb. 



(Plate 18. fig. 1.) 



Loc. Scotland (S.E.), Scarborough, Ranworth, Mcr- 

 ton, Hastings, Folkestone, Cambridge, Pembroke. 



In May and June amongst its food-plant. 



The larva feeds on hemp-agrimony {Eupatorium can- 

 nubinum), mining the flower-stem, in which it hybcr- 

 nalos, pupating in the cavity the following spring. 



Tiie ground-colour of the larva is yellowish white; a 

 series of quadrate dark brown markings forms the 

 dorsal stripe, another row of black dots occurs along 

 the spiracular region; head pale brown, with darker 

 freckles and mandibles, also a black spot on each cheek ; 

 prolegs tipped witli brown, and the upper portion of the 

 anal claspers spotted with black. Ent. xv. 102. 



E. M. M. xii. 23J... 



