HERMINIIOjG. 



larva pupates in a white silk cocoon amongst leaves in 

 October. Treit. 



Herminia cribralis, Hb. 



(Plate 2. fig. 2.) 



Loc. Glastonbury, Diss, Morton, Ranworth, Horning, 

 Aldeby, Walton-on-the-Nazc, Suffolk, Wicken, South- 

 end. 



This species, which occurs in fens and marshy fields, 

 is found in July. 



The larva, which feeds on sallow {Carex syl- 

 vatica) and Luzula pilosa (wood hairy rush), is a 

 light greyish brown, freckled with ochrcous ; dorsal 

 line darker than the ground-colour, edged with paler ; 

 subdorsal line pale; spiracles black; belly pale. It 

 hybernates, and the following spring it spins a slight 

 cocoon amongst its food, &c. E. M. M. x. 103. 



Herminia derivalis, Hb. 



emortualis, Haw. 



(Plate 1. fig. 10.) 



Loc. Woolwich, Deal, Lewes, Colchester, Hastings, 

 Heme Bay. 



In July and August in damp woods, very local. 



The larva feeds on decaying oak -leaves; it is dark 

 velvety brown, pubescent ; dorsal and subdorsal lines 

 slightly darker than the ground-colour; spiracles ringed 

 with black ; the plate on the second segment is divided 

 by a paler line of the ground-colour ; abdominal surface 



