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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



the Tineites are generally either leaf-miners, case-makers, or burrowers in- 

 side the stems of plants, but not only their manner of feeding, but their food 

 also, varies much more than in those of the Tortricina, and as we know to our 

 cost, they do not confine themselves to a vegetable diet, but some species in- 

 vade our houses and work havoc in cloth, fur, and similar substances — not 

 even sparing our entomological or ornithological specimens, unless our but- 

 terflies or bird-skins are protected from their ravages by the free use of cor- 

 rosive sublimate and other substances. - 



Every entomologist knows a tortrix larva at first sight. Its active wrig- 

 gling movements when disturbed at once identifies it. We find the larger 

 number of species in the summer months ; very few kinds can be found now. 

 One of these is the dull yellowish- white Antithesia geniiana, which differs in 

 its habits from the leaf-rolling and leaf-uniting species, we see so abundantly 

 later on in the year, by feeding inside teasel heads. The head and second 

 segment are black and the body is spotted with pale green. At the time 

 these pages are in their readers' hands these little caterpillars will have 

 attained their full size and be ready to pupate. The moth I will describe in 

 a future paper. Eupczcilia roseana is another species to be found now in the 

 teasel heads, feeding on the seeds. In colour it is green with a black head, 

 and it occurs almost everywhere where teasel grows ; thus differing from 

 geniiana, whose habitat is the South of England. It is also smaller than the 

 last-named species. Most of the tortricine larvae we find now are internal 

 feeders, as, for instance, the dull reddish-brown black-headed Notocczlia ud- 

 tnanniana, which feeds inside the bramble shoots ; the dull-brown Spilonota 

 roborana in rose shoots ; the pink black-headed Halonota scutulana in thistle 

 stems ; the yellowish -white, brown-headed E, terrellana, in stems and roots 

 mugwort {Artemisia vulgaris), the local Dicrorampha siwpliciana also feed- 

 ing in mugwort roots ; the pinkish- white Dicrorampha petiverana, in roots of 

 yarrow [Achillea millefolium) ; the dirty-brown pale-headed Eedya aceriana, 

 in the bark and young shoots of poplar ; the abundant, green, black-headed 

 Bactra lanceolana in stems of rushes ; the pale yellow, brown-headed Asthenia 

 strobilana in fir cones, and the scarce Retinia turionana in shoots of Scotch 

 fir. The other Tortricina larva feeding in April are Tortrix Forsterana on 

 ivy, honey-suckle, &c, and the greenish-grey, green-headed Ditula angustio- 

 rana on a variety of trees. 



A few Tortrices may be found now in the imago state, as Eedya pauper* 

 ana, Cheimatophila mixtana, Semasia vacciniana, Ephippiphora argyrana t 

 Asthenia splendidulana, Eeusimene fimbriana, and Tortricodes hyemana, 

 Pauperana is scarce, but used to occur in Darenth Wood, among wild rose- 

 bushes, Mixtana is common in heathy places, Vacciniana abundant where 



