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On tJie Tiahits of (Ecophora lamhdella. — In July, 1877, I met with several spe- 

 cimens of QScophora lamhdella under the clifPs, near Tenby, and was interested to 

 find that they were attached to furze bushes {(Hex europceus), and particularly to 

 the dead furze. Early in the following spring, therefore, I broke up and examined 

 the dry branches and twigs and the rotten stems of the dead furze bushes, finding 

 in the larger branches plenty of larva) of Dasyc.era sulphurella, made conspicuous by 

 the attached bunches of pellets of frass held together by a slight web of silk. But 

 in the smaller branches and in the dry twigs were other larvse, very long and slender, 

 pi'oportionately the longest larvae that I ever saw, with a curious habit of curling 

 their posterior segments downwards when taken out of their bui'rows. These were 

 dirty whitish, with a grey tinge, caused by the colour of the intestinal canal showing 

 through the semi-transparent skin, spotless, but with minute colourless bristles. 

 Head blackish-brown, dorsal plate pale yellow-brown, anal plate yellowish. When 

 full grown the head becomes of a brighter brown. Between the segments of the body 

 the skin lies in a distinct dull whitish fold. Tlie dorsal plate is singularly formed, 

 having a sharp angle on the middle of its anterior margin, pointing towards the head. 



In dead branches and twigs of Ulex europcBus, apparently preferring the smaller 

 branches, eating passages under the bark, and leaving them crammed with excrement 

 (none of which is extruded), and apparently burrowing backwards and forwards 

 along the same portion of branch. Found well-grown on March 2nd, having proba- 

 bly fed all the winter, and continuing to feed till late in May or even to June. 

 Pupa long and thin, yellowish-brown, in a slight silken cocoon within the burrow. 

 The first specimen of (Ecophora lamhdella emerged on June 20th, and a large 

 bundle of furze sticks produced only a dozen specimens. 



I think that no description of this larva has before been published ; but I hear 

 from Lord Walsingham, that many specimens of the moth were reared by his sister, 

 the Hon. Beatrice de Grrey, four or five years ago, from larvse found by her in dead 

 furze sticks at Leiston, in Suffolk. — C. Or. Baehett, Pembroke : June Idth, 1879. 



The network cocoon of Chrysocorysfestaliella. — On May 31st, 1878, 1 found three 

 small larvae, hardly more than a quai-ter of an inch long, on the under-side of a leaf 

 of bramble. They were exceedingly sluggish, rather flattened, very pale green with 

 a bright green patch on the back of each segment, and thickly covered with stiff 

 transparent bristles. Head and plates shining green. They all fed up on the same 

 leaf, and each spun, in the hollow of the under-side of it, a most exquisite cocoon, 

 composed of a network of large meshes of whitish silk, in which they changed to 

 pale yellow pupae with brown wing cases. The moths emerged on June 30th. — Id. 



[A notice on this subject, by Mr. Healy, appeared in this Magazine, vol. iv, p. 



183.— Eds.] 



Nepticula hasiguttella hred. — During the last week I have bred six specimens of 

 i\r. hasiguttella, ivom mines found last November at Madingley, near here, and also at 

 Sandy, in Bedfordshire. I was collecting the mines of Nepticula quinquella, and 

 so, being rather late in the season, found about one tenanted mine of N. hasiguttella 

 for half-a-dozen empty ones. I hope another season to breed them in larger numbers, 

 as the mines appeared to be tolerably common, though from their colour very diffi- 

 cult to be detected. Mr. Sang wrote to me last autumn that he had once found 

 empty mines of Nepticula hasiguttella at West Wickham Wood. — W. Waeken, 

 51, Bridge Street, Cambridge : June \Gth, 1879. 



