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The first time of appearance was in the middle of July, 1858. 

 The larva I found in the beginning of May the same year, in the 

 fresh terminal shoots of Lysimaclda vulgaris. 



COLEOPHOEA MFSCULELLA, Muhliff. 



Alis anticis luteo-fuscis, margine anteriori albido. Medio alarum 

 liueis duabus albidis, quarum prima e basi nata ad angulum analem, 

 altera ad apieem alarum pertinet. Margine interiori aliquantum albido 

 limbato, alis posterioribus et ciliis griseis. Palpis autennisque albidis, 

 his nigro-annulatis ; capite brunneo hirsute ; thoracis lateribus albidis, 

 medio brunneo, corpore pedibusque obscurioribus. 



Fore-wings dark luteous, the costa white. In the middle of the 

 wing two white lines, one springing out of the base ending at the anal 

 angle, the second extending from about the end of the first to the apex 

 of the wing. Inner margin narrowly white, under-wings and cilia grey, 

 palpi and antennse white, ringed with black. Head covered with brown 

 hairs ; thorax laterally white, in the middle brown ; abdomen and legs 

 darker. 



The first time of appearance was in the middle of July, 1860. 



Next to Col. juncicolella, this is the smallest species of Coleophora. 

 In habit and colour it is somewhat near to saponariella, Heeg, 



The case granulated with grey, longitudinally angulated, the hol- 

 lows dark (not black, as in saponariella) ; mouth slightly curved ; the 

 hinder end three-coi'uered, tapering to a point. 



The larva lives through the winter, from September till the be- 

 ginning of May, when it is full fed, on Diantlius superhiis and Diantktts 

 Carthusianorum. It betrays itself by the spots mined by it in the 

 leaves, which appear almost snow white. 



FROM MY NOTES. 



Coleophora olivaceclla and C. solitariella. 



The assertion has been repeatedly made that Coleophora olivaceclla, 

 St., and C. solitariella, Zell., are only one species, indeed, that one is 

 the fomnle of tlie other. 



Tiiough it ia not to be denied that it is difficult for the most ex- 

 perienced author himself to determine instantly, with certainty, a 

 single specimen of these species, yet, even if we should assume that the 

 manner of life, and the history of the transformation of both, are one 

 and the same (although it is not known to me that solitariella likes 

 other food than Stellaria holostea, whereas olivaceella is found on Geras- 

 liiim viilfjafum and Stellaria holostea), we may yet see the difference of 



