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with the earth, at last turned out earth and all, and thus detected the missing 

 larvae — much grown in size, and very muddy in appearance from having burrowed 

 an inch or more under the surface : they seemed to eat the stem of the plantain as 

 well as the leaves, and continued their subterranean habits until the last, seldom — 

 and then only at night — showing themselves above ground, and changing to pupse 

 about the end of April. The description of the larvae in the Manual from Freyer 

 is good as far as it goes, but is rather too much curtailed, so I venture to add a few 

 particulars noted by Mr. Buckler and myself, premising that the first step in 

 describing trilinea must be to give the larvtB a good washing. In form it is short 

 and thick, very wrinkled, the head small and retractile, also 13th segment very 

 small, the segmental folds deeply cut. Ground colour variable : — sometimes dark 

 grey ; then the dorsal line is pale grey, edged with black at the segmental folds. 

 The sub-dorsal line is a series of pale grey wedges on the several segments, the 

 thin end of each wedge pointing forwards, and its upper side bordered by a short 

 obhque black stripe, and its bigger end enclosing a black dot : below again comes 

 a rather broad dark brown stripe, and below that a narrow one of grey : spiracles 

 black, each placed on a little swelling ; belly pale grey. Sometimes the ground 

 colour is a dirty reddish brown, with the dorsal hne partaking of the same tint, but 

 paler, edged with black as before most distinctly at the folds ; the sub-dorsal row 

 of stripes of the same colour as the dorsal hne, but of uniform width, and showing 

 distinctly only on the anterior part of each segment, where also appear a pair of 

 black dots ; the spiracular brown stripe tinged with ochreous. There is another 

 variety of dirty flesh colour, with the markings but faintly visible. — J. Hellins, 

 mh February, 1866. 



Notes on Tineina. — Early in May last, the shoots of a solitary juniper bush in 

 my garden were much infested with larvae, of which the following is the description : 

 Green, with a coral-red band, dotted with green, across the anterior part of each 

 segment, except the head, which is brown. The red bands extend down to the 

 spiracles, and more faintly to the belly, so as almost to form rings. They feed inside 

 the terminal joints of the juniper, completely hollowing them out, but leaving 

 plenty of excrement in the mine, and move freely from one shoot to another. 

 When full grown, they look too fat to have inhabited so narrow a dwelling. 



These larvae, as I was led by Mr, Stainton to expect, produced Argyresthia 

 dilectella in the beginning of July. A few specimens occurred about the bush in 

 the garden at the same time, but they were exceedingly sluggish and retiring in 

 their habits. 



There are no wild junipers within seven miles, and but few cultivated ones in 

 the neighbourhood ; and I have no doubt that this species must breed, year after 

 year, in that one bush. I hope that, from long interbreeding, they will not become 

 deteriorated. 



On July Slst, I paid a hasty visit to Hydon Heath, where wild juniper growa 

 in abundance, and found Argyresthia aurulentella in such swarms that, had I not 

 been pressed for time, I might easily have taken enough to supply the cabinets of 

 all my friends. 



In the middle of July, Argyresthia Andereggiella was rather common in an 



