Forest entomology . to costa, and oblique by crossing thewing. On its outer margin on the costa is a pale-yellow spot. Thenfollows the ocellated blotch which extends to the anal angle; in themiddle of it are some darker scales. Hind wings uniform from a $ specimen. Expanse 12 to 16 mm. P^DISCA OCCULTANA, DoUgl. I have only found this insect once, and that was an attack onPinus cembra in Northumberland, on plants which had been pur-chased preceding the attack from a public nursery in the Midlands. 266 FOREST ENTOMOLOGY. The plants in question were from 3 to 4 feet high, an
Forest entomology . to costa, and oblique by crossing thewing. On its outer margin on the costa is a pale-yellow spot. Thenfollows the ocellated blotch which extends to the anal angle; in themiddle of it are some darker scales. Hind wings uniform from a $ specimen. Expanse 12 to 16 mm. P^DISCA OCCULTANA, DoUgl. I have only found this insect once, and that was an attack onPinus cembra in Northumberland, on plants which had been pur-chased preceding the attack from a public nursery in the Midlands. 266 FOREST ENTOMOLOGY. The plants in question were from 3 to 4 feet high, and the injuriesconsisted in the top shoots being arrested in their practical man knows that conifers in general make but a veryshort leading shoot the year following transplanting, and that in theearly stages of growth the whorl of lateral branches stands erect andsurrounding the leading shoot. In this particular case the injuriesinflicted by the larvre resulted in not only eating the young leaves,. Fig. 252.— Shoots of English yew (Taxusbaccata) injured by larvae of Batodesangustiorana.
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