affecting Carrots and Parsnips. 
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their cells with this kind of caterpillar to support their younfj. 
They are exceedingly active, wriu'grling backward and forward, 
and junij)ing from one side to another, when touched, as if in 
convulsions: they are \ inch Ions:, of a grass-green colour, 
with a darker green line down either side and one along the back ; 
on each segment are 10 warty black points, 4 disposed in a quad- 
rangle on the back and 3 obliquely on each side : the head is 
brown with 2 brighter spots of the same colour; the thoracic 
scale is brown with a broad black margin, and they have 16 green 
legs. 
When they are ready to change to pupae they become rosy 
beneath, very restless, and continually wander about as if seeking 
for food. Sometimes it appears they enter the earth to change 
to pupae,* where they form little oval cocoons of grains of sand, 
loosely attached by silken threads, the inside being lined with 
silk, or they untlergo their transformations in the habitation 
formed in the leaf.j The chrysalides are of a deep yellow-brown 
and shining. There are two broods annually ; the June one 
hatches in August, and the caterpillars found the first week in 
September become moths the end of October, and they hybernate. 
5. D. Cicutella is supposed also to be the Pyralis applana of 
Fabricius. It is of a dull pale reddish-ochre colour, and shines 
like satin : the eyes are small, black, and orbicular ; the horns are 
long and slender, and the jialpi, or feelers, are curved upward like 
short scaly horns, but the apex appears naked and pointed : 
the trunk is orbicular, the body depressed, the tail tufted with 
ochreous hairs in the male, lanceolate in the female : the wings 
rest flat upon the back in repose, one lying over the other (fig. 13) : 
the upper wings are long and narrow, freckled with brown and 
black, forming indistinct spots upon the pinion edge, along which 
is a light streak, on the disc are 3 white dots with dark edges, and 
2 brown dots nearer the base : the under wings are yellowish-grey, 
very satiny, with a longish fringe : fig. 14, magnified, the expanse 
of the wings being 10 lines. 
Depressari A Di;puEssEi,LA, the purple Carrot and Parsnip- 
seed flat-body Moth. 
A variety was figured under that name by Hubner,J in which 
the pale marks on the upper wings were entirely wanting, and 
this led me to publish it under another appellation. § This species 
is less generally distributed than D. Cicutella, yet it is abundant 
* De Gear's 'Hist, des Ins.,' vol. i. p. 424. 
+ Godart's ' Lep. de France,' vol. xi. p. 129, pi. 290, f. 4. 
% 'Sainlung Eiirop. Schmet. Tinea,' pi. 61, t. 407.: 
§ D. Biunlii : Curt. 'Brit. Eat.,' lol. and pi. 'Zn. 
