140 [November, 



In September, its flight is rather more lively than in June (though at all times 

 it has a heaviness about it), and it flies higher, often about five feet from the ground, 

 vdthout any apparent wish to rest on the grass, or even on a hedge, but on approach- 

 the latter, it would raise its flight and go over. 



These facts, combined with the fresh af)pearance of the September specimens, 

 and the worn appearance of those on the wing in June, have led me to the con- 

 clusion that the insect hibernates, and does not deposit its eggs until the spring. — 

 W. D. Cansdale, 4, Q-uithavon Terrace, Witham : October Sth, 1877. 



Opo.iterja spatulella, Quenee. — A careful study of some specimens of this insect 

 just received from the captor, Mr. Cansdale, leads me entirely to his conclusion, that 

 the June specimens had hibernated. 



As the description I gave in the Entomologist's Annual, 1860, p. 125, from 

 specimens taken by Mr. H. Tompkins, at Southend, in Essex, in the middle of 

 August, admits of improvement, I have noted as follows : — 



The hibernated specimens are shining pale ochreous, with a small dark grey 

 spot on the inner margin before the middle, and an oblique grey (paler) streak from 

 the middle of the costa — -distinctly posterior to the dorsal spot. The grey scales, 

 with which the entire disc of the wing is suffused in the fresh specimens, are almost 

 entirely absent. 



In the fresh specimens, these two dark markings can be seen, when we know 

 where to look for them, but they are not conspicuous ; the spaces immediately 

 beyond them on both margins appear ns pale spots, being freer than the rest of the 

 wing from the suffused grey scales : sometimes there is also a scarcity of the grey 

 scales on the basal side of the dark spots— hence the description in the Ent. Ann., 

 1860, p. 135, speaks of " two pairs of pale marginal spots." 



Hence, I find that Ilerrich-Schaffer was more correct than I had thought, when 

 he described the markings on this insect as dark spots. 



The general glossiness of the insect, even when not greasy, renders it, however, 

 difilcult to describe.— H. T. Stainton, Mouutsfield, Lewisham, S.E. : Oct. 1st, 1877. 



31icropteryx larva in autumn. — Among several mines in birch leaves collected 

 at High Force, about the middle of August, were some very odd looking ones, which 

 I sent to Mr. Stainton. My surprise was great when, on receiving them back, I 

 found among probable sawflies and others unknown, that one was a mine of Microp- 

 teryx. Subsequent visits to the same place, and to Wolsingham, produced a few 

 more ; also recent empty mines. It has been suggested to me, that they might be 

 individuals retarded by the lateness of the season : to this, however, I cannot sub- 

 s<:ribe, bearing in mind this fact, that the birches at Wolsingham were covered with 

 the usual Micropteryx mines, in the first week in June, just as usual ; and I did not 

 find that, up to the end of June, there was any special retardation of species even 

 there. It was after the beginning of July, when the rains came, that many species 

 seemed to be thrown so much out of course, so that I cannot help coming to the 

 conclusion that it may either be a new species, or one of those with unknown larvae. 

 I hope next season will decide the question. — J. Sang, Darlington : Oct. 8th, 1877. 



Capture of Xylotrechus liciatus, Linn., in Warwickshire. — Of tliis grey powdery 

 Hylotrupoid Clytus, of which the metropolis appews to be in the South of France, 



