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[July, 
Loz opera Francillana , Fab. 
Larva short, plump, cylindrical, dirty yellowish-white, head black, dorsal plate 
faintly brown, with two dark brown spots at the posterior edge, anal plate small, 
faintly brownish with a dark spot in the middle. 
Feeding in the autumn and until April in the stems of Daucus 
carota, eating the pith and filling the space with frass, through which 
it seems to "work back in the spring. It appears also to make small 
cocoon-like chambers in the frass, and then abandon them, but ulti- 
mately' spins up in the stem and becomes a light brown pupa, which 
pushes itself through the bark of the stem when the moth emerges : 
this takes place in July and August. 
My remark in vol. xi, p. 196, that the larva had been reared from 
seeds of Daucus carota seems to have been a mistake. At the same 
time I quoted from M. Jourdheuille’s Calendar : “ Larva in dead stems 
“of Eryngium campestre ,” and remarked that this must refer to 
another species. A short while ago, M. Fagonot sent me four beautiful 
specimens Jlagellana , Dup. (giving eryngiana , Heyd., as a synonym), 
telling me that they were reared from dead stems of Eryngium campestre. 
These specimens differ from Francillana in being less glossy and of a 
more ochreous yellow, and in having the first oblique fascia abbreviated 
and slightly clubbed at the apex, with a spot opposite it on the costa, 
while the second fascia is more curved, attenuated in the middle, and 
often has a short row of dots outside it. This species seems constant 
in its markings, and is intermediate between Francillana and Smeath- 
manniana. 
Heinemann (p. 80) gives Jlagellana , H.-S., as synonymous with 
Francillana , Fab., and Woeke includes Jlagellana , Dup., as well as 
Jlagellana , H.-S., under Francillana , Fab., but he gives eryngiana, 
Heyd., as a distinct species. 1 have no opportunity now of ascertaining 
whether Duponchel’s and Herrich- Schaffer’s Jlagellana are the same 
species, but I think there can be no doubt that Jlagellana, Dup., 
should be separated from Francillana, F., as a distinct species, with 
eryngiana, Heyd., as a synonym. 
Pembroke : 1 6th June, 1880. 
Stiymonota scopariana, a Tortrix new to our list. — This very handsome species 
I bred the last week in April and first week in May. I had no idea of my prize, in 
fact, at first I thought they were only very big Lithocolletis ulmifoliella until I 
chloroformed one and then saw it was a Tortrix which at the time I set down as 
Coccyx splendidulana, until I took them to Preston to compare, and at once saw I had 
a puzzler. I sent one to Mr. Stainton, who did not know it, then I sent it on to 
Mr. C. Gr. Barrett, he wrote me what he thought it was, but wanted to see both sexes ; I 
then sent him both sexes, and he at once wrote me they were Stig mo not a scopariana. 
I imagined the larva? had been obtained from mountain ash, but the name scopariana 
at once made me think whether I had ever been among broom, as it is scarce at 
Dutton ; there are some broom bushes about 50 yards from my house which I beat- 
only once and put any larva in along with those I beat among mountain ash, &c., 
so most likely the pabulum of this gem is the broom. 1 bred six specimens in all. — J. 
B. IIodgkinson, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : June 13 th, 1880. 
