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the carious way in which the beetles all race off in the same direction, 

 like a flock of diminutive sheep. According to Fowler it had not 

 occurred further north than Yorkshire at the time his work appeared. 



B. paludosum., Panz. — Occurs sparingly by the Gelt. Very 

 abundant on sandy banks by the Eden, running actively and 

 "nocking" together like the last-named. Often takes to the wing. 

 Recorded by Canon Fowler from the banks of the Derwent, a river I 

 have myself found a disappointing one for the genus, at any rate along 

 its higher waters. 



In addition to the foregoing, other species may yet be found in 

 Cumberland, the likeliest, from their recorded distribution, being 

 B. riparium, clarki, gilvipes, nitidulum, flammulatum, and obliquum. 



Notes on Coleophora genistae and C. gryphipennella. 



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

 ( 'oleophora genistae. — Mr. Prout sent me a few cases of Coleophora 

 genistae from Loughton, on May 9th, 1904, and Mr. Goulton some from 

 Bookham on the same date. They were then very small, and appeared 

 to have moved from their hybernation only about a week. Their food- 

 plant, (renixta anglica, is usually very late in showing its leaves, and 

 these larva? are then very eager for food. They will only feed sparingly 

 on ordinary broom. On June 4th, the larva? were extremely abundant 

 at Bookham, many plants being quite denuded of green leaves. The 

 larva? were of all sizes, and frequently two, three, and four, cases could be 

 seen assembled at the tip of a branch, which they had completely 

 cleared of both leaves and flowers. They much prefer the flowers and 

 abandon the green leaves as soon as the flower-buds and flowers are 

 developed. Unfortunately, I omitted to carry these through. 



( oleophora gryphipennella. — On May 14th, 1904, 1 took a case of 

 ('. gryphipennella at Ashstead, on rose, but a good search produced no 

 more. This species does not seem to be numerous anywhere ; odd 

 specimens occur everywhere, but I have never met with more than one 

 or two in any one spot. At Chatham, on May 29th, I found a winter 

 case. It was situated on a rose-leaf close to a scallop, from which the 

 larva? had made its new case, when it abandoned the old one. The 

 owner, however, did not show itself. The piece cut out was, as 

 usual, cut from very near the base of the leaf near the stalk. There 

 was a blotch on the same leaf, showing that the larva had made a 

 meal and then decamped to pastures new. On the 4th of June, I met 

 with two cases at Bookham, one of these was large and rough, 

 while the other was thin and much newer. On the following day, the 

 larva with the rough-looking case, abandoned it, and made a new one, 

 which was of a delicate green colour, the whole of the chlorophyll of 

 the leaf not having been scraped away from the inside of the cuticle, 

 when the larva was eating out its mine. 



The larva, in general coloration, was of a dull brown-orange. The 

 1st thoracic segment had a large dorsal plate, which nearly covered 

 the back of the segment, with a median suture wider at the rear. The 

 2nd segment had two large dots of black on the dorsum. The 3rd 

 segment had no trace of plates. The spiracular plates were present on 

 the 1st and 2nd segments, but the 3rd segment had no trace. The 

 anal segment was protected by a small, squarish, black plate. 



