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observed have been found in decayed wood, or in the bark of growing trees. It does 

 not change to a pupa till the spring. — J. H. Wood, Tarrington, Ledbury : 

 November, 1879. 



Occurrence of AtemeUa torquatella in England. — I have had the pleasure of 

 finding the larva of this species, hitherto, I believe, only met with in Scotland, in 

 Castle Eden Dene. I found it in the leaves of very small seedling birches, growing 

 among the prass, in September, both this year and last. I also found three or four 

 larvse on October 17th, this year, at Wolsingham, on small birches growing among 

 the heather. These may be the last survivors of a more numerous stock ; as the 

 leaves, which are so thoroughly cleared out, may have dropped from the bushes some 

 time ago. The mined leaves are, in many eases, so like the work of saw-fly larvse, 

 that they might be quite easily overlooked. I totally failed to rear the moths last 

 season. — J. Sang, Darlington : October \9th, 1879. 



Occurrence of Coleophora ahenella, Woclce (C. Ledi, partim, Stainton), in the 

 New Forest. — In September, 1878, I received from Mr. W. H. Fletcher some pari- 

 pennella-like cases found by him on Rhammis frangula, near Lyndhurst. I suspected 

 at the time that these ought to produce Coleophora ledi, but on the receipt of some 

 bred specimens, through the kindness of Mr. Fletcher, I found, on careful investiga- 

 tion, that the C. ledi of the 5th vol. of the Natural History of the Tineina is a 

 pot-pourri of two different species. This has been pointed out by Wocke in his con- 

 tinuation of Heinemann's Schmetterlinge Deutschlands, &c., and for the polyphagous 

 species, with paripennella-Y\ke case, but of which the imago has distinctly annulated 

 antennae, he proposes the name ahenella (p. 546), restricting the name of ledi to the 

 species with paler, more bronzy and more glossy anterior wings (likewise, however, 

 with annulated antennae), but with a very different case, placed almost perpendicu- 

 larly, and feeding, so far as at present known, solely on Ledum palustre. Coleophora 

 ahenella is an interesting addition to our British list. — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, 

 Lewisham : November \hth, 1879. 



The larva of Coleophora ahenella. — It was in September, 1877, that I first found 

 a ring of about a dozen old cases of this larva on a stem of Rhamnus frangula, vihen 

 searching for larvae of Bucculatrix frangulella. I found, at the same time, a few 

 young larvse feeding on the leaves, but these I failed to rear, and I was also unsuc- 

 cessful with some feeding larvae which I found in September, 1878. However, being 

 in the New Forest in March and April last, I found a good many cases spun up on 

 the stems of the buckthorn, and from these I have bred a good many of the perfect 

 insects. 



The insect seems pretty well distributed all over the Forest inclosures, and 

 though one may take thirty or forty cases in an afternoon, many of them are old 

 ones, as the cases seem to last for several years, so that it is slow work getting cases 

 that are still tenanted. — W. H. B. Fletcher, 3, Cavendish Place, Eastbourne : No- 

 vember 15th, 1879. 



Sugar-cane borers. — At the beginning of last August, I received from the 

 Kesouvenir estate of the Porter family, in Demerara, a box of specimens showing 

 the ravages of the borers in the sugar canes. In some of the samples sent, the 



