9 Ij [ September, 



getting it into the bos, in other respects the specimen is perfect. This is the second 

 specimen that has been taken on the same premises : twenty years ago my friend — 

 Mr. C. S. Mallett — took a male off one of the windows, which he has now in his 

 cabinet. — J. E. Wellman, 14, Portland Place North, Clapham Eoad, S.W. : 15^/j 

 August, 1879. 



The larva of Roslerstammia ErxlebeUa. — Through the kindness of Mr. Grrigg 

 of Bristol, I have now made the personal acquaintance of this interesting larva. It 

 was well described by Madame Lienig in the Isis of 1846, p. 292, who says of it that 

 " it feeds in May and September on lime, on the under-side of the leaves, in which 

 "it eats large round holes ; I also found it on nut bushes." 



Treitschke (ix, 2, 115) had quoted from von Tischer's notes a different descrip- 

 tion of the larva, to which it may now be desirable to call the attention of our 

 numerous observers. Von Tischer says " The larva is green, with paler warts and a 

 " brownish-green head. It feeds on heath (Erica vulgaris), on the twigs of which 

 " it unites the small leaves by means of its web to form an elongate habitation, 

 " within which it also assumes the pupa state. It occurs at the end of June in 

 " woods. The imago appeal's in July and August." 



This habit of uniting the leaves of the Calluna to form an "elongate habitation" 

 reminds one of the pretty knot-horn, A'crobasis porphyrella, which treats the Erica 

 arborea in a similar way, but I am not aware that we have yet found any smaller 

 heath-feeding insect with such a habit. Von Tischer was well acquainted with the 

 heath-feeding larva of GeJecliia ericinella, which (under the name of micella) is 

 described from his notes in Treitschke (x, 3, 214), and its habits are totally different. 

 When I was at the Meeting of German Naturalists at Hanover, in 1865, 1 understood 

 from Herr G-litz of that place, that the young larvfe of Erxlebella mine the leaves of 

 the lime ; so far as Mr. Grigg's observations at present go this has not been con- 

 firmed, as he has taken it " when exceedingly small, hanging from the leaves by its 

 " silken thread." 



It would also be interesting to know whether any recent Entomologist has, like 

 Madame Lienig, found this larva " on nut bushes." — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, 

 Lewisham, S.E. : August Ihth, 1879. 



A new British Antceon. — On examining lately my Scotch specimens of Antceon, 

 I found that I had taken near Dumfries the ^«;«o« lateralis of Thomson (Oef,1860, 

 p. 178, No. 10), a species new to our lists. — P. Cameron, 31, Willowbank Crescent, 

 Glasgow : August ISth, 1879. 



A second British locality/ for Stenopsocus stigmaticus, Imhoff. — I recorded this 

 species as British in this Magazine, vol. ix, p. 63 (1872), having found it near 

 Reigate in some quantity. I again found it (not rare) in the neighbourhood of Ux- 

 bridge on the 1st and 2nd inst. ; in fact, it was more common than its ally S. im- 

 maculatus, from which its smaller size and very bright green colour (when fresh) 

 readily distinguish it, without considering the more precise characters already pointed 

 out. That it is common, and probably universally distributed, on the Continent is 

 evident. I have seen it in many continental collections, and in France I have taken 

 it almost within Paris. It was not known as Scandinavian when Di-. Spangberg 

 wrote lus " Psocina Suecise et Fennise " (Ofversigt Vet. Ak. Forhandlingar, 1878, 



