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mantle of newly fallen snow everything looked its best. We stayed ab 

 Trafoi from July 10th to 17th and did fairly well there. Brcnthis 

 thore, large and fresh, was found in a wood on the way to the three 

 Holy Springs, but was very scarce, only about a dozen being seen 

 altogether and they nearly all males. With them were living B. 

 aiiiathiaia and some J), eiiphronyne, which often managed to make 

 themselves look like B. tluin', but did not seem to have the titnye habit 

 of settling up in the fir trees out of reach. Erebia ineclusa was not un- 

 common but mostly very badly worn, and it was difficult to pick out 

 a few decent specimens. In the meadows Loireia dnrili^ was flying 

 freely, principally of the var. hrunnea, and varying considerably in the 

 amount of orange spotting. ('Iini^njilianus kippotho'e was also common 

 and among them a few of the var. ennjhia. 



We were delighted to find here a plant of CiipripeiUtmi calceolas 

 still in bloom, as we. had hunted for this flower for some years in vain. 



A visit to the Edelweiss Hutte produced two Erebia alecto var. 

 f/lacialis, which were all we were able to turn up at Trafoi. On a steep 

 bank near Gomagoi Erebia nerine was flying sparingly, and this being 

 my first encounter with it a very exciting hour was spent. They were 

 evidently newly out and nearly all males, and had the continuous red 

 band of the var. stelriana. Solitary specimens of Erebia aetliio/is and 

 PohimiiwatiiH aiiiatida were also taken. On the 17th we motored down 

 to Spondinig and took the diligence to St. Maria in Mimster, and the 

 next day drove over the Ofen Pass to Zernetz and took train to 

 Saraaden. Much of the ground on the Ofen Pass looked promising, 

 but practically nothing was seen during the whole day, and after a call 

 at Pontresina wo returned home to a " peck of troubles," but with the 

 feeling that we had at least got something out of Austria. 



Coleophora bicolorella, Stt., and C. politella, Scott. 



By ALFEED SICH, F.E.S. 

 In a recent and very interesting article on the larval habits of C. 

 bicolorella, Stt. (/v;i^ Bee, vol. xxvi., p. 193), Mr. Turner shows that 

 he took it for granted that the alder-feeding hicolnrella and the hazel- 

 feeding insect, named politella by Scott, are one and the same species. 

 I had my doubts on this point and Mr. Turner's note induced me to 

 attempt to clear the matter up. The following notes will, I think, 

 show that Mr. Turner's view of the matter is correct. On August 6th, 



1860, John Scott read a paper (Traim. Eiit. Soc. London, vol. v., 1858- 



1861, p. 410), before the Entomological Society of London in which 

 he described five new species of the genus Coleophora. Among these 

 is his politella. After giving a very good description of the imago, he 

 adds : " This insect is allied to and very much resembles fuscedinella, 

 but the wings are much narrower than in that species, and are besides 

 falcate at the tips." " The larva lives in a singularly stumpy case 

 reminding one of a miniature viniinetella, but it is rather stouter and 

 only about one half its length." The larvae were found on nut trees. 

 On August 11th, 1860, Stainton published in the Knt. Weekly Intel- 

 li(/encer (vol. viii., p. 149) a note on a new species of Coleophora which 

 he named birol)rella. He does not give a set description of the imago 

 but states that it strongly resembles f'loiceilinella but has longer wings ; 

 of the larval case, he says: "It is something in the style of the case of 



