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basal green healthy portion, and a terminal that was red, brown or 

 black, more or less variegated with the colours of dying leaves. The 

 mine of the larva occupied the dividing line, and had often a slender 

 branch or two into the terminal part of the leaf. The effect of cap- 

 tivity or of bringing them south was to make them feed up, which 

 otherwise they ought not to have done till spring ; and finally, at the 

 end of November, a si^ecimen of Coccyx nemorivaga emerged, and others 

 have done so since. I find its habit of eating out the interior of the 

 thick fleshy leaves of the bearberry, leaving colourless bladders of the 

 cuticle is noted in E.M.M. vol. xxii,, ]). 65. I may add that bearberry 

 being scarce, I supplied it with leaves of Arbutus unedo, which seemed 

 to suit it equally well with its natural food. This mining habit in a 

 ToRTRix, and especially its similarity in habit to Ditula woodiana in 

 mistletoe, is interesting. The pupa is of ordinary Tortrix pattern, 

 with a simple row of spines at each margin of segments, and with long 

 hairs along the margins of segments. These appear to be the post 

 spiracular tubercles. The other circumspiracular and the trajiezoidals 

 are nearly as well represented. On the 13th segment four such hairs 

 and on the 14th two, are still longer and have curved j^oints, forming 

 in fact the hooks of the anal armature. The gi-eat breadth of the 

 anterior portion of the prothoracic segment (carrying the " glazed 

 eye ") is remarkable, and emphasises the interest attaching to 

 this portion of the pupa. It has all the appearance of being a truly 

 separate segment, of equal value with the others, and this will probably 

 have to be conceded, but whether it is the anterior half of 1st thoracic 

 thus proved to be double, or whether it is a subsegment of the head, 

 remains to be seen. This segment does not exist, except as " glazed 

 eye," in the pupa of (butterflies ? or) Macros (Obtectce), but all observers 

 of lepidopterous larva are familiar with the double set of dorsal 

 appendages (tubercles, hairs, &c.) on the 1st thoracic segment of 

 Macros as of others, — T. A. Chapman, Firbank, Hereford. January, 1893. 



OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Collecting at Eichmond. — On November 5th I spent a rather 

 successful afternoon at Eichmond Park, a locality I had never visited 

 for Coleoptera before, although so many good insects have or may be 

 taken there. As I turned into the park through the gate at the 

 bottom of Priory Lane, I noticed a felled tree, and by taking off what 

 little loose bark there was I took four or five Homalium vile and a little 

 reddish-yellow beetle, belonging to the Trichopterygidce ; perhaps 

 some more advanced coleopterist can give a shrewd guess as to its 

 name. The next beetle resort was a large mass of fungus growing at 

 the roots of one of the large oaks, from which I took a large quantity 

 of common Staphs., and also : Homalota occidta (1), Aleochara vioista, 

 with the elytra bright brownish ; Tryphyllus suturalis and a series of 

 Tetratoma fungorum. As it was beginning to grow dusk I turned off 

 to the right towards the Eichmond Hill gate, intending to take a 

 survey of that part of the park, but was prevented by the discovery of 

 the washed-out remains of a dead bird. There was scarcely anything 

 left save the bones and skin, and they were saturated with rain ; but 



