2()2 [y(:ptein1)er, 



I took fifteen specimens on July 21th, and two eubscquently on 

 the 2'5th and 27th respectively in a field about six miles from Mertou 

 on the Break sands of Norfolk. 



On looking through my series of lixelJa I found a single specimen 

 of tricolor which was taken within a quarter of a mile from the same 

 field on August 1st, 1891 ; it was a piece of waste pasture land culti- 

 vated a few years ago, but now overgrown with ragwort and other 

 weeds. The insect was found sitting on the flowers of the ragwort 

 (^Senccio jacohcea), or crawling up the stems of Triticum repens and 

 other grasses ; no thyme was to bo found anywhere in the neighbour- 

 hood. The specimens were all taken within a space of a hundred 

 yards, beyond which none could be found. I searched for empty 

 cases on Clinopodium and other low weeds, as well as on the scanty 

 grasses, but found no trace of the larval habits — certainly it could 

 not have fed on thyme. 



Fi'ey, Lp. Schweiz, 39G (ISSO), refers to a Coleophora "interme- 

 diate between lixella, Ti., and ornntipenneUa, Hb.," for which he suggests 

 the name intermediella, proposing to apply it if he should in future 

 be convinced of the distinctness of the species. He gives no descrip- 

 tion or indication of the points in which it differs from its allies, and 

 the name must therefore be regarded as having no title to acceptance. 

 I have not studied his series, but there is no probability that he had 

 this species before him, since it possesses characters not shared by 

 those he mentions, and is certainly not intermediate between them. 



Tinea vinetella, Schrauk, Fauna Boica, II (2), 111 (1802), is 

 omitted from Staudinger and Wocke's Catalog, it is probably ornati- 

 pennella, Hb., and was so regarded by Zeller, but the specimen in his 

 collection on which he happened to place the name vinetella^ and with 

 which two other specimens in his series agree, seems to me to represent 

 another distinct but closely allied form — certainly not my tricolor. 



Merton Hall : August lOlh, 1899. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LARVA AND PUPA OF APROMREMA 

 VINELLA, Bnks. 



BY EUSTACE R. BANKES, M.A., F.E.S. 



Thanks to the continued kindness of Mr. A. C. Vine, I am now 

 able to give a more accurate and detailed account of the life-history of 

 Aprocerema Vindla than was possible when my previous paper on it, in 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., 2nd ser., ix, 242 — !■ (1S9S), was written. On Novem- 

 ber 15th of last vear I received from Mr. Vine a consi<rnment of 



