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Lampronia rubiella. — It appears that in my note on the earlier portion of the 

 life-historj of this species (Ent. Mo. Mag., June, 1891), I did not make it sufficiently 

 clear that I took for granted that it was well-known that the larva inhabited the 

 buds or shoots of the raspberry in spring, and that my observations filled up the 

 hiatus between the appearance of the moth in May (this year June) and the half 

 grown larva in the following March, and that it might be supposed that I was giving 

 the whole life-history, this reading being facilitated by my using the word emerge 

 in reference to the escape of the larva from its cocoon of hibernation, so that one 

 miglit suppose I meant the emergence of the moth. Stainton, in " The Manual," 

 1859, says, " larva in shoots of raspberry, April — May," and its name would suggest 

 that a knowledge of this portion of its life-history is of considerably older date. 

 There is one point in connection with this period of its existence perhaps worthy of 

 note. In entering the bud in March (or April), it does so just as it begins to open 

 (an odd belated larva may be found occasionally living Tortrixio.Bh.ion in the leaves), 

 eating out the centre, and especially the pith, and finally pupating in the cavity so 

 formed. It docs all this so early in the history of tlie bud, that a secondary bud at 

 once takes the place of the one destroyed, hurries forward, and bears fruit ; indeed, 

 is so successful in taking the place of the lost bud, that but for its existence in the 

 axil of the new shoot, the latter would be supposed to be the ordinary normal shoot. 

 It is, therefore, remarkable that neither as a young larva in the fruit core, or when 

 older in the bud, does it do any material injury to the prospects of the crop. My 

 interest in the species centres largely in its method of oviposition. The discovery 

 by Dr. Wood and myself of the oviposition of the large species of Micropteryx, 

 being followed by that of a similar habit in Lampronia, Adela, &c., viz., the long- 

 horns, and a suspicion that the same habit exists in some of the OlyphipterygidcB, 

 raises the question as to whether tliis remarkable habit, and its correlated structure, 

 associated with metallic brilliance in many of the moths, does not necessitate bring- 

 ing the several insects possessing it together into one family, and at any rate it 

 demands more observers to note the various ways in which it is carried out in the 

 different species. It leaves as a more obscure and interesting problem than ever the 

 life-history of the small Micropteryges. — T. A. Chapman, Firbank, Hereford : 

 June, 1891. 



Re-occurrence of Col. chalcogrammella. — It is very satisfactory to be able to 

 record the finding of a few cases of the above rare species at Scarborough, the only 

 locality known for it at present in Britain. 



It was during 1883 I made my first journey to Scarborough specially for the 

 larva of this insect, and since that time two others, all of which proved fruitless. 



It seemed very odd to me that an insect which Mr. Wilkinson, of Scarborough, 

 used to take at times in abundance should have so effectually disappeared since his 

 death, now about fifteen years ; I felt convinced it must still be there, and, notwith- 

 standing my former disappointing journeys, I determined to again visit the place 

 this year, and thoroughly search every likely spot for the food-plant ; I could gain 

 no information as to in what part of Scarborough it used to be taken, and so, during 

 the last week in May, I thoroughly searched all the dry slopes and broken ground 

 along the coast south of the town, as far as Flamborough Head, where the Cerastium 

 arvense was likely to occur, and to the north about two miles beyond Scalby Mill 

 Hotel : at last I found a few patchct of the CerasUum, and carefully searched it for 



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