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Salda pilosella, Thoms. According to Mr. Douglas (Ent. M. 
M., xvi, p. 218), this species is regarded by Dr. Puton as only a pilose 
form of S. pallipes , but I think S. pilosella is a good species. It often 
occurs in compan} r with pallipes , but it can at once be distinguished 
from it. The colour is very little variable ; the bristly erect hairs of 
the head, pronotum, scutellum, and clavus seem to me to be good 
differential characters. 
S. elegantula, Fall., is regarded by Dr. Puton (/. c., p. 218) as 
the brachypterous hispid form of S. cincta , H.-S., but this cannot be 
approved. I have examined, in the Museum at Helsingfors, a macrop- 
terous specimen of S. elegantula , having the elytra covered with black 
bristly hairs, and the antennae are distinctly thicker than in cincta. 
Scolopostethus pilosus, Reut., is suspected by Dr. Puton ( l . c., 
p. 219) to be only a hispid variety of S. affinis, which latter is found 
by us only on nettles ; while S. pilosus lives in damp places among 
fallen leaves, moss, &c. 
Helsingfors : 11 th March , 1880. 
NOTES ON UNKNOWN OR LITTLE-KNOWN LARViE OF MLCRO- 
LJEPID OPTEPA. 
BY E. L. RAGONOT. 
{continued from Vol. 273). 
Platytes cerussellus , S. V. 
The larva is unknown, but Anton Schmid once bred the moth 
from an unobserved larva in moss. The moth is fond of grassy banks 
and ditches, and flies abundantly in June and July. 
Crambus alpinellus , Hb. 
Larva unknown, the moth flies on dry sandy pasture lands, where 
* heath, broom, and Artemisia campestris grow, in July and August. 
It is not an alpine insect, nor does it specially frequent fir woods. 
C. verellus, Zk. 
According to Anton Schmid, the undescribed larva feeds in moss 
on the branches of old plum, apple, and poplar trees, but Dr. Rossler 
finds the moth also in fir woods where the ground is covered with moss. 
The moth flies in July and August. 
C. dumetellus , Hb. 
The larva is unknown, the moth occurs on dry hill-slopes in June 
and Julv. 
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