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specimens were quite fresh, others considerably worn. I suspect that June 20th will 

 be about the time to look for it in general, and that it is out only for a short time. 

 It flew between 11 and 12 p.m. I add a brief description, which, I trust, will enable 

 others who may meet with it to recognise it. 



Exp. al., 9 lines. Paljji moderate, porrected. Head and thorax bright yellow. 

 Fore-wings glossy, rather pale brownish-ochreous, yellower towards base, immaculate. 

 Hind-wings grey. Cannot be confounded with any other British species. When 

 alive it has a very smooth and glossy appearance, and the yellow thorax is 

 conspicuovis. 



Nothing appears to be known abroad of its earlier stages, but I think it possible 

 that the larva may feed in decayed wood.*— E. Meteick, Trinity College, Cambridge : 

 February 2nd, 1875. 



Notes on some Tineina ohserved in 1874. — The spring commenced early, and 

 included some very warm weather, the effects of which were noticeable during the 

 summer in the accelerated development of several species. 



Laverna epilohiella, Romer : I met with a few larvce of this on the 22nd of 

 June, then nearly full-fed, and expected they would have formed their cocoons 

 simply " among the leaves of their food-plant," as is recorded ; but each larva mined 

 out a small space in a fresh leaf, and constructed its cocoon within it, nearly filling 

 up the space. 



Tischeria dodoncBa : I was led to the discovery of the larva of this insect here 

 in a rather singular way : — Having found a few larvae of a saw-fly (Blennocampa) 

 in August, on oak, I took home a few twigs of the plant to feed them on, and in a 

 few days after I noticed on a leaf of one of the twigs a minute reddish-brown spot 

 which grew daily somewhat larger, and when it had attained a diameter of one-fifth 

 of an inch the darker concentric rings characteristic of this species were distinctly 

 traceable under a lens. I visited the place where it was found in the beginning of 

 October, when I collected about twenty larvae. At the same time and place occurred 

 the four British species of Tischeria. 



Tischeria angusticollella : found several nearly full-fed larvre of this on the 

 10th of August, but secured only a few, not thinking, until after arrival home, that 

 possibly some of them might attain the imago state before next spring, which, how- 

 ever, some of them did, as I bred three before the end of the month ; and, on visiting 

 the place where they occurred on the 22nd of the same month, I saw one leaf con- 

 taining a mine of this insect, with the empty pupa-skin projecting from it. No 

 larva; of this species were observable in September, but in October many were found, 

 all quite young at the middle of the month, none being full-fed before the 21st. 



Lithocolletis viminieUa : bred this from willow as well as sallow. 



Cemiostoma Wailesella : collected numerous larva; of this on the 10th of August, 

 expecting to breed the moths next spring, but some of them were not inclined to 

 wait 80 long, for twenty-nine appeared between the 21st and the end of Augiist, 

 and others in September. They were kept under gauze at an open northward 

 window. I noticed a pair in copuhX. — J. E. Fletchee, 9, Pitmaston Road, Worcester : 

 January 2'lth, 1875. 



* We think this habit scarcely probable. — Eds. 



