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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Earliest stages of Coleophoka juncicolella, Stt. — The ovum 

 is a low cone with several ribs, very similar to the ovum of (J. larirdla. 

 It is laid on the lower surface of a leaf of L'alluna viil(/aris, almost at 

 the base and half-way between the mid-rib and the margin, so that it 

 is partly hidden by the leaf growing immediately below on the same 

 stem. The larva on hatching passes through the base of the egg-shell 

 into the leaf, which it mines. It then probably changes its skin. 

 Whether this is so or not, it enters a second leaf without forming a 

 case. As far as I was able to ascertain it forms its first case by cutting 

 oft" a portion from a third leaf. The first case is formed of the upper 

 three-quarters of a leaf which the larva has previously mined, and is of 

 a pale fawn colour. I have always considered ( '. laricella and this 

 species as closely allied, but there is one great difference in the larva, 

 the former possesses four pairs of abdominal prolegs, while C. juncico- 

 lella only has three pairs. — Alfred Sich. 



JI2»^0TES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Collecting Records. — [I think the following two lists of captures 

 should be put on record, more for the sake of the localities, than for 

 any rarity in the insects themselves. Mr. Meyrick and Mr. Durrant 

 have been good enough to identify some Microlepidoptera. These 

 species I have marked with an asterisk (-). — -P.A.B.] 



I. Microlepidoptera of Norway. — In the Flni. llecord, xxvi., p. 

 152 (1914) my brother and I published an account of two Norwegian 

 localities. I am now in a position to give a list of the Microlepidoptera 

 which we took there. As the larger paper shows, we were at Lesje 

 July 25th-30th, and in the Sura valley August lst-26th, 1918, and 

 again at Lesje August 29th. 



Pi/raiista pnrpiiralis (forewing band divided), Lesje; Herbala 

 cespitalis, Sura ; Fredericlna caludactyla (zetterstedtii), and Adkinia 

 bifjiinctidactyla, both the above were in worn condition early in August 

 on the Sura ; I'rambnK mhnellns, C. pratellun both abundant on Sura 

 and at Lesje; ( '. viari/aritdlus, Sura; Peronea s</uilleriana, Sura, 

 common ; P. a>sj>ersana, Sura ; Teras contaiiiitiana, Sura ; !Sericuris 

 lacunana, Sura ; '^An/i/ropluce hipunctana, Lesje ; Mi.mdia >>chuhiana, 

 Lesje, 3,500 ft.; '■'• Hnchmtiiia arhutella, Lesje, in bad condition; 

 (rrapholit/ta raiiwlla, type with white ground. Sura; '''(t. nacvana var. 

 (leiiiinana, ^\xrck\ G. penkleriana, common, Lesje and Sura; '■'Phlucdes 

 crenana, Sura ; IrJypeniiecia crnciana, Lesje and Sura, a very dark red 

 fuscous form ; Pacdiaca solandriana, not at all abundant, Sura ; 

 ^Kucdfiiiia bisciitana, August 29th, Lesje, common (the species is like 

 a very unicolorous variety of P. suiiilana); Pampliisia uiercuriana, Sura, 

 3,000 feet, mid- August common ; -Catoptria lujpericana, Sura ; 

 Aphelia asseana, Sura and Lesje, comm^on ; '■•Siraiiniu'rda)iiiiiia c())i- 

 upersella, Lesje ; ■'■\Deprensaria badiella, Sura ; '■!>. piililierriinella, Sura ; 

 D. {Pinaris) applana, Sura; ■D. (P.) /wpatariella, Sura; ■(Tdechia 

 pruxiiiiella, bred from birch (Betula), spring of 1914 ; Anji/resthia 

 brockeella, Sura; A. retinella, Sura; Gracilaria elonnclla, Sura; 

 '•'iJoleophora laricella, Sura ; '' Si)iiaethis {Albnioiiipiia) diana, Sura. 



II. Fauna of Caldey Island, Pembrokeshire. — Before the 

 commencement of the war some Cambridge entomologists proposed 



