third pair similarly nearly uniting, with a perpendicular streak, which also reaches 
the anal angle, passing outside the ocellus, which contains three or four black streaks. 
Hind margin edged with a deep black line, which is interrupted below the apex by 
a silvery blotch. Cilia pale silvery-grey. Hind-wings of the male pale grey, with 
the base whitish, the apical angle white, a deep black line along the hind margin, 
and a white blotch inside it ; of the female darker grey, with the white apical angle 
and deep black marginal line. Cilia whitish. Head and antennse dark grey, palpi 
paler. 
This species has not hitherto been recorded in the United King- 
dom, but is found in Germany, Galicia, Livonia, and Servia. It does 
not seem to have been previously reared, but nearly every author 
records it as occurring among Spartium scoparium or Genista, in woods 
or wood-meadows. Its time of appearance is April and May. 
Eupoecilia atricapitana , Steph. I find that the early summer 
brood of this species is produced from larvae which feed in the autumn 
and winter in stems of Senecio jacoboea, causing a slight distortion of 
the stem, and that they remain in the burrow until the spring, fre- 
quently spinning up and assuming the pupa state therein, but in some 
cases leaving the stem to spin up elsewhere. The moths emerge in 
May and June. 
Some of the distorted dry stems were gathered for me this spring 
at Eastbourne, Sussex, by Mr. W. H. B. Eletcher, and I afterwards 
found a few in the quarries here. Moths have emerged from both. 
Eupoecilia udana, Gn. In Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xi, p. 191, 1 quoted 
a description of the larva of this species made by M. Ragonot, from 
specimens preserved in spirits. This description I can now compare 
with one made from a living larva kindly sent me by Dr. Wood, of 
Tarrington, Ledbury. 
Moderately plump and rattier thickest in the middle, dull yellowish-pink or 
pinkish-brown, greyer towards the head, dorsal line faintly greyish-brown, spots 
shining, hardly visible, hairs very minute, head and divided dorsal plate bright 
black-brown, anal plate pale brown. 
Deeding within the dry flower-stem of Alisma plantago , full-grown 
about the middle of October, eating the pith and leaving frass scat- 
tered irregularly along the burrow. Pupa chestnut-brown, with dark 
brown wing-sheaths. In a slight cocoon of white silk, placed inside 
the dry stem of Alisma, not occupying the whole width of the burrow, 
but attached to one side, and having a hole cut nearly through the bark 
for exit. Through this the pupa pushes its way before the moth 
emerges. 
On receiving a larva from Dr. Wood, I went to a little pond at a 
corner of a lane for some Alisma, and there found two or three larv*. 
The species had not previously been observed in this neighbourhood. 
The moths emerged in June, July, and August. 
