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Its time of appearance here seems, therefore, to be the first half of June and 

 the first half of August, and I doubt very much its being out in September. 



I can get no clue to the habits or food of the larva. The females do not lay any 

 eggs in confinement, and I have searched the fields in July, lying down on the grass 

 and examining every green thing for indications of larvae — external, internal, or at 

 the roots — but without the slightest success, yet this must have been the time when 

 they were at work. — Id. 



Oposte'ga spattilella in Somersetshire. — Wlien in Somersetshire, in September, I 

 found that the thatches about the farms sheltered plenty of Depressaria ultimella, 

 piynpinellcB and pastinacella, and a few Gelechia vilella, and with them a minute 

 species, evidently an Opostega, new to me. One afternoon, about 6 p.m., when 

 walking with friends, we suddenly found ourselves surrounded by specimens of this 

 Opostega, apparently flying down from the tall elms. It was exciting work, since 

 while I tried to box those already netted, my father and sisters were all calling upon 

 me to secure others flying near them. They only flew for a few minutes, long 

 enough to enable me to secure thirty specimens in the few pill-boxes I had, and no 

 clue whatever was obtained to the probable food-plant of the species. When sub- 

 mitted to Mr. Stainton, it proved to be Opostega spatulella. — Id. 



Leptogramma Soscana and scahrana only broods of one species. — A very 

 interesting fact, long suspected, but I think not previously proved, has been worked 

 out this season by my friend, Mr. W. West, of Grreenwich. For three years he has 

 been trying to rear larvse from eggs laid in summer by the female of Leptogramma 

 Boscana, and has also tried to obtain eggs of L. scahrana in the spring, but without 

 success. Last July he confined all the $ Boscana that he took in a wide-mouthed 

 bottle, and obtained eggs in small greenish patches on the glass, looking from the 

 outside like mere spots of dirt : tliis was on July 17th. On the 24'th, he found the 

 patches dotted with tiny black specks, and on the next day they hatched. The 

 young larvse were supplied with elm {Ulmus campestris),wpon which they fed freely, 

 at first turning down the edge of a leaf and gnawing the surface, but when older, 

 xmiting two leaves together and eating from the edge to the mid-rib. On August 

 20th, they were half-an-inch long, pale green, with a few scattered bristles, head, 

 feet, and plate on 2nd segment, black. On August 28th, they drew two leaves to- 

 gether for the last time, and assumed the pupa state between them. On September 

 29th, the first imago appeared, a true scahrana, and sixteen more followed. Lepto- 

 gramma Boscana and scahrana are therefore proved to be only the two broods of 

 one species. 



The correct name of the species is easily settled : Boscana, Fab., dating from 

 1793 ; scahrana, Steph., subsequent to 1827 ; and parisiana, Qn., 1845. Boscana, 

 having the priority, must therefore be retained for this species. — Id. 



Description of the larva of Stenopteryx hybridalis. — A specimen of this insect, 

 which I captured at the end of July or beginning of August last, in the New Forest, 

 deposited eggs : these were attached to the sides of tlie chip box in batches of six 

 or eight, and were slightly oblong, globular, and highly polished, the colour dark 

 olive-green. On 14th August, the infant larvae emerged, and were dingy-green, with 



