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I quite agree with Dr. Staudinger, that the larva; may hibernate twice, as the 

 top of the mountain where my $ was caught is now covered in snow, and will remain 

 so till next May. 



I have never caught a specimen at a less elevation than 3,000 feet, in fact the 

 highest points at which the food-plant exists, and every specimen caught is hard earned ; 

 what with the dense fog and extreme cold it is almost unbearable to stay upon the 

 mountains all night, but once up you must stay there till morning or risk a broken 

 neck in the descent. They do not appear to come to sugar, but fly wildly about in 

 front of the thick fog or mist, which makes it necessary to wring out your net every 

 few minutes. — E. G. Meek, 56, Brompton Road, S.W. : November, 1876. 



Anesychia hipunciella, Fab. (ecJiiella, Hiibn.) — A single specimen of this beauti- 

 ful species (of which Mr. Stainton says in the Manual " reported to have been taken 

 many years ago near Aylesbury and Dover," and which was placed by Mr. Doubleday 

 among the reputed British species) was sent to me a few days ago for identification. 

 It was taken flying over a patch of Ecliium on the south coast of Kent, in August 

 last, by Mr. F. W. Andrewes, of Reading. It is highly satisfactory to see this 

 handsome species — one of the largest of the Tineina — restored to our lists. — 

 Charles G. Babeett, Pembroke : loth November, 1876. 



Notes on some Tineina observed in 1876. — Dasystoma salicella : bred from larva 

 feeding on Populus tremula. 



Ornix angliceUa : bred from larvte feeding on Pyrus torminalis. Both larva 

 and imago have been compared with authentic specimens of angliceUa irom hawthorn. 



Laverna epilobiella, Rdmer : having attended to this species during three years, 

 I am able to say that the accounts of its pupation given at p. 184, vol. xi, "Nat. His. 

 Tin.," and by me at p. 238, vol. xi, " Eut. Mon. Mag.," though appearing contra- 

 dictory, are quite reconcilable. In the state of nature, as I found by examining the 

 food-plants in its habitat, the full-fed larva quits its mine and makes a new one (in 

 some uninjured portion of the growing leaf), of a size about suflicient to contain its 

 cocoon, which it then constructs within ; and it does the same in captivity when it 

 has only healthy growing plants standing quite free of each other within reach. 

 "When, as is usually the case in confinement, the plants are injured, crumpled, or 

 more or less dried or decayed, the larva avails itself of any convenient corner to 

 spin its cocoon in. One or two larva spun up in their old mines ; and one upon the 

 soil, its white cocoon being coated all over with earth. 



Tischeria dodoncea : bred this for the first time. Having kept the larva; in a 

 nearly air-tight glass in a cold place till the middle of May, I then placed them 

 upon moss and moistened the surface of their mines daily, or every second or third 

 day, as the heat and dryness of the air varied ; by these means, breeding twenty-one 

 moths from twenty-three unstung larva;. Abovit two-thirds of the larva; faU a prey 

 to parasites. 



Tischeria angusticollella : some larva; of this insect were full-fed in August, 

 and some attained the moth state the same month in a state of nature ; other larva? 

 quite young appearing in October. The larva of this insect, like the others of its 

 genus, remains unchanged through the winter. — J. E. Flbtchee, Pitmaston Road, 

 Worcester : October, 1876. 



