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the sides flesh-colour, and the belly white ; dorsal line 

 narrow, darker than the back ; subdorsal stripes paler ; 

 head yellowish brown ; plates on the second and anal 

 segments pinkish brown ; tubercles and spiracles black. 

 Lives through the winter, pupating in spring. 



E. M. M. vi. 188. 



Ent. xvi. 64. 



Schoenobius forficellus, Thnh. 

 (Plate 7. fig. 6, c? ? .) 

 Loc. St. Davids, lledland, Brockley, Stapleton, Bid- 

 ston Marsh, Toxton, Little Neston, Burton, Chester, 

 Askham Bog, Huddersfield, Norwich, Aldeby, Brandon, 

 Horniug, Tenby, Hastings, Gravesend, Folkestone, Deal, 

 Killarney. 



Common in marshes in June and July. 



The larva is greyish green, with darker dorsal stripes ; 

 head black ; a black spot on the dorsal plate. It feeds 

 in May and June in the young stems of Arundo, Carex, 

 and Poa sjjectabilis. In Carea^ it rolls the leaves to- 

 gether; in Poa it feeds in the thin parts of the stems of 

 the former year, which it bites up and uses for a case. 

 It pupates in a cocoon. Zk., Tr. 



Schoenobius mucronellus, Schijf. 



straminella, Hb. 



(Plate 7. fig. 7, S ? .) 



Loc. Kirkcudbright, Norwich, Cawston, Barton Turf, 

 Ranworth, Becily, Braemar, Wieken, Galway. 



