112 L October. 



webs of Butalls grandipennis, but, as I have since found that the insect occurs far 

 away from any Ulex, we are driven to the conclusion thit though Mr. Machin's spe- 

 cimens may have spun up on that plant, they had not fed on it : the food, therefore, 

 of the larva of Gelechia gerronella yet remains to be ascertained. 



On August 10th this year, I was startled by a keen-eyed entomologist, who was 

 with me, pointing out a specimen of Gelechia gerronella sitting on a hawthorn-leaf, 

 on the hedge (well known to most entomologists) which borders the drive here. 



" Seeing is believing " — but as there was no Ulex and no broom anywhere near, 

 I still felt utterly incredulous. The insect was, however, duly boxed and proved to 

 be, what it had seemed to be, Gelechia gerronella. 



I should have supposed it was an accidental specimen, which by some inexplicable 

 means had got transported to the spot, and I certainly never for one moment dreamt 

 of meeting with another in the same locality, but on August 12th, in the same haw- 

 thorn hedge, I saw two other specimens, one of which I secured ; and on August 

 14th I saw two more, and again secured one of them. 



Being thus fairly at sea as to the food-plant of G. gerronella, I wrote to Mr. 

 Machin to enquire if he had bred any more of the insect : from him I learnt that 

 though he had collected a quantity of the webs containing larvse of Butalis grandi- 

 pennis, he had not again bred any G. gerronella, though he had taken many specimens 

 of the imago in fair condition, but from four to five weeks later than they were last 

 year. He also mentioned that he found in his diary a notice of the capture of some 

 specimens in the forest at Fair Mead Bottom far removed from any furze or broom, 

 and that from this notice, and his want of success in rearing the insect this season, 

 he could only conclude that it was not a furze-feeder. 



This summer I did not go to Tuubridge Weils till August 19th, and, therefore, 

 I was too late for decent specimens of G. gerronella, which sat as before on the furze- 

 bushes and occasionally on fern-leaves, but, as Gelechia rufescens was also to be seen 

 sitting on the furze-bushes, that was a good intimation not to lay too much stress on 

 the apparent fondness of G. gerronella for furze : indeed, the idea floated through 

 my mind more than once — may not the larva of G. gerronella be a grass-feeder, like 

 that of G. rufescens ? Gelechia atrella, which is known to feed on Ryfericum, aho 

 seems to frequent the furze-bushes ; so that one might be disposed to suspect any of 

 the low plants growing in the shelter of the furze-bushes, only that the question will 

 arise — which of these same low plants grows also here with me, near the hawthorn 

 hedge, on which the specimens of Gelechia gerronella occurred ? 



The problem is any way rather perplexing, and there is still somethhig to be 

 found out. — Id. 



Larva of Depressaria rotundella, Duiigl. — Mr. Sang, during a recent visit to 

 Folkestone, had the pleasui'e of discovering the larva of this insect, which had been 

 erroneously considered to occur on Echium vulgare. Mr. Sang found them feeding 

 on the leaves of Daucus carota on August 4th. Mr. Sang says that these larvee had 

 the head and thoracic shield black (this coloration being retained throughout their 

 growth) ; the colour and stripes as in D. applana, only rather yellower.— Id. : 

 September I'Sth, 1879. 



Larvee of Coleophora apicella. Slain. — Wlien at Tuubridge Wells 1 collected, in 



