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Spiraea iihiiaria, another on a perennial sunflower, and a third on a 

 thistle! ('ar(lini>i jialustris I believe. IJoarmia repandata is rather 

 variable here. We have taken and bred some very smoky-brown 

 specimens, and last year netted one var. conversaria. 



On August 5th, 1904, a very oddly shaped Melanippe flnctnata was 

 taken at rest on a gate. The upper wings are long, narrow, and 

 sharply pointed, in fact, shaped like those of Eiqiithecia centaitrcata. The 

 markings are very sketchy, the central band only extends to the centre 

 of the wing, and the costal blotch near the apex and the twin spots 

 below are rather elongated, and look as if they had been smudged 

 towards the band. Mdanippc iiiontanata is one of our most abundant 

 species. We have kept a look out for its variations and have found var. 

 deaenerata, Prout, very scarce. One asymmetrical female, caught last year, 

 comprises this form combined with the type, the right forewing having 

 the central fascia divided, the costal and inner-marginal blotches being 

 well separated by an eighth of an inch, while the left wing is quite 

 typical, being banded completely across. Mr. Barrett states that 

 Asthena candidata only appears " occasionally, in an extremely partial 

 second generation." Both the years we have collected here we have 

 found this species, which is only too abundant in May and June, quite 

 common at the end of July and in August. 



This year we found the bloom of Cotoneaster rather attractive at 

 night and although only common things turned up, such as Apamea 

 basilinea, tladena dentina, Odontopera bidentata, Cidaria vKHsata, and 

 C. snffuDiata, it may perhaps be worth noting. While searching the 

 blossom for moths with a lamp we came across larvae of Miaelia 

 o.ri/acanthac, Hijhfrnia defoliaria, Diloha caeruleocephala and of course 

 Cheiinatobia brinnata feeding on this shrub, the first named attacking 

 the flowers as well as the leaves. We kept six of these M. o.ri/acauthae 

 larvae ; two died in their cocoons, and from the remaining four, bred 

 two ab. capucina. This variety is quite common here, or rather, it 

 was last year when it came freely to ivy blossom and sugar, when we 

 also obtained, among other things, Peridroma miicia, Noctna (jlareosa, 

 Epunda niijra, Xylina rhizolitha, X. petrificata, X. semibrHnnea and 

 Sarrothn'pa revai/ana. This autumn these attractions are veiy unpro- 

 ductive. 



Notes on Coleophora hemerobiella. 



By HENRY J. TURNER, F.E.S. 



On April 14th, 1904, my friend Mr. A. Sich, very kindly gave me 

 several larvae of L'uleopliora liewcrobieUa, which he had found feeding on 

 hawthorn at ChisAvick, in a hedge, where the species has been 

 obtainable for many years. It has already been noted that this is one 

 of the species which indulges in the later life of its larvae in a shelter 

 quite dift'erent in shape from that which it possesses from youth until 

 its last stadium. The cases given me were all of the curved shape. 

 As I have elsewhere remarked they are a small segment of a ring in 

 form at first. By periodic additions this is lengthened until a semi- 

 circle is attained. Then the mouth-opening end of the ring is added 

 to again and again, but in a straight direction, so that a case some- 

 what like a diminutive shepherd's crook is formed. This, the final 

 shape of the curved form, is attained during the earlier half of May, 



