be found, and in many of tbem in great abundance. We know next 

 to nothing of its larva, and any reliable information is most welcome. 

 But is this reliable ? We have many of us reared the larvae which 

 are greenish or yellowish, thickest in the middle, and draw together 

 the petals (ray-florets) of C hrysanthemum leucantJiemum, feeding on 

 the disc-florets inside, and they usually prove to be Sciaphilce, say 

 Scinphila conspersana or paseunna, or Sphaleroptera ictericana, never 

 Ablabia 2)rntana ; and as the larvae have been collected, in spots in 

 which the latter species (of course) is plentiful, the improbability of 

 the statement quoted seems to be increased. Perhaps all may be 

 explained by the fact that the smooth unicolorous brown male of S. 

 ictericana bears so close a resemblance to A. pratana that it would be 

 quite pardonable to mistake one for the other. 



In the case of Cheimafophila tortricella (^Tortricodes hyemand) no 

 such probable explanation suggests itself. The time given for emer- 

 gence is correct, but the description of the habits of the larva seems 

 rather to refer to Acrohasis consocielln. There is a full description 

 of the larva of Tortricodes hyemana by Mr. Nelson Richardson in 

 vol. xxi of this Magazine (pp. 252 — 3). He says that it is of a dull 

 brick-red, inclining to brown, with paler lines ; and that it turns down 

 the tip of an oak leaf, thereby forming a somewhat conical habitation, 

 which it changes as frequently as it eats the leaf, always making 

 itself a similar dwelling. Also that when full-fed it goes down to 

 the ground, where it makes a tough cocoon of earth and silk. More- 

 over, he distinctly states that the larva is not at all gregarious. 



Mr. Richardson is well known to be most carefully accurate in 

 his observations, and I fully accept bis statement as correct. Indeed, 

 a habitation formed at the tip of an oak branch, and enclosing several 

 leaves, would be so conspicuous that, if existent, it would, in the case 

 of so common an insect as T. hyemana^ be familiar to all of us. 



With regard to Grapliolitha Zttbeana, it can only be remarked 

 that we have no other record of its occurrence in this country. It 

 seems to be extremely local on the continent, since Staudinger only 

 records it from Silesia and Styria ; it is somewhat allied to one of our 

 most recent novelties, G. gemmiferana, but larger and darker, and, 

 one would think, too conspicuous to be long overlooked. M. Ragonot 

 stated that a specimen had been submitted to him, and as he examined 

 it there would seem to be no excuse for doubt, were it not that in a 

 previous portion of the same paper (p. 197) he made a similar state- 

 ment with regard to Conchylis Kindermanniano , pointing out that it 

 was new to England ; but in the errata at p. 226 he admitted that on 



