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Ochsenheimeria Birdella. Several specimens swept up among 

 rougli herbage in a damp meadow, in August ; apparently common. 



O. hisontella. A single specimen swept off a hedge-bank ; quite 

 an unexpected occurrence. 



Tinea misella. When I came here, three years ago, this was com- 

 mon in the stable, and must have fed on old stable manure, but the 

 broom has exterminated it there I fear. 



Tinea merdella. Much too common in the house. An old muff 

 tied loosely in paper, and laid under a chest of drawers, proved highly 

 attractive to the females, and I reared a large number from the eggs 

 they laid. Of course, pellionella, tapetzella, and fuscipunctella ac- 

 companied it. I am not sure that this species (?) is not a simply 

 yellow form of pellionella, with which it closely agrees in form, position 

 of spots, and size in both sexes. Moreover, the two forms ct'oss freely. 

 The cases also are much alike. 



Tinea nigripunctella. It is curious that I meet with this — repu- 

 tedly scarce — species wherever I go. I have even caught it in my 

 hand in a London street. At Tenby I have found it sitting on a house 

 door, here it occurs rather frequently ; but, from the description of 

 building which it principally frequents — here and elsewhere — its larva 

 may be suspected of tastes and habits which can hardly be described 

 as decent, much less fastidious. 



Teichohia Verhuellella. Not at all uncommon in the quarries in 

 sheltered rocky places, where fei'ns grow freely. The larvae are now 

 feeding. I have seen them to-day, March 15th, in the fronds of Sco- 

 lopendrium vuhjare, sometimes feeding under the fructification, or 

 making blotches in the substance of the frond — true mines in fact — but 

 generally burrowing down the midrib for some distance, leaving the 

 burrow nearly full of excrement, but always having a little case made 

 of the scales of the fructification at the entrance of the mine or bur- 

 row. Some plants of Asplenium trichomanes were also much infested, 

 the substance of the pinna) being eat6n out, so that they turned brown. 

 The cases on these fronds were almost as large as the pinna;. Some small 

 plants of Asplenium ruta-muraria, growing in the sheltered chinks of a 

 rock, were almost destroyed by these larva?, the fronds being com- 

 pletely eaten out, so that the larva) had carried their cases down the 

 the stipes, or even to the young uncurling fronds, or fixed them to 

 the rock close by. 



I have not yet been able to find a single larva on Asplenium 

 adiantum-nifjrum, but I lately found some on Crterach ojficinarum, on 

 a plant which was growing amongst infested As2)Ienium trichomanes. 



