1(54 [Decemljer, 



As all my boxes were full, I now turned to hunting for lan'iE, and soon had the 

 pleasure of finding some of Coleophora fuscocuprella ; I had looked for it in vain 

 since 1850, when the late T. H. AUis and I had many a hunt for it at Windermere, 

 but I should remark that Stainton says " case circular," and this slightly misled me, 

 as the cases are turned as abruptly as a fish hook, even when very young. I found 

 six of various sizes, some appearing quite full-grown. I may add that I found them 

 only on certain nut-bushes, where I have occasionally met with the perfect insect ; 

 I fancy the cases are greater desiderata than the insects, judging by catalogues sent 

 to mc.— J. B. HoDOKiNSON, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : Octuher 20th, 1875. 



Coleophora comjzcc, ZelL, a new British species. — It seems strange that so large 

 and conspicuous an insect as Coleophora conyzce should not have been named till 

 1868. Possibly the insect had often been previously collected, but confounded with 

 other species. The late Von Heinemann, of Brunswick, first met with the larvse of this 

 insect on Conyza squarrosa ; afterwards M. Milliere found it at Cannes ; now Mr. 

 Sydney Webb has met with it near Dover and at Mickleham, so that the species 

 seems to be widely distributed. Mr. Webb observes that " the blotches it makes on 

 its food-plant are very conspiciious," so that he is surprised the species had not been 

 detected before. Mr. Webb has also met with stragglers feeding on Eapatonum 

 cannahinum. 



The somewhat clumsily-shaped case reminds one strongly of that of the labiate- 

 feeder, G. auricella, and it is at a glance distinguished from the smoother and more 

 trim-looking case of the other Eupatorium-fccding species, C- troglodytella. 



Professor Zeller, who describes the species in the Verhandlungen der zoologisch- 

 botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 1868, p. 623, observes that it closely resembles 

 G. virgatella, for which, when collecting the imago, he had mistaken it, not observing 

 the absence of the tuft at the base of the antennsB. Also that it comes very near to 

 C. onosniella, for small specimens of which it might almost be mistaken, but that the 

 following differences might be perceived : 1st — the anterior wings are considerably 

 broader ; 2nd — the tuft of the palpi reaches to the end of the terminal joint, or even 

 exceeds it, whereas in onosmella it only reaches to half the length of the terminal 

 joint ; 3rd — the more slender basal joint of the antennte : 4th — the greater shortness 

 (or, as the German phrase is, " the more trifling length ") of the anterior wings ; 

 5th — the early appearance of the imago (from the 2Sth May to middle of June) ; 

 and 6th — the difference of the ease of the larva. Schlager bred the insect at Jena, 

 from Inula hirta. 



On the Conyza squarrosa, Mr. Webb observes that the larva feeds on the 

 radical leaves rather voraciously. — II. T. Staintox, Mountsfield, Lewisham, S.E. : 

 November Gth, 1875. 



Entomological Society of London : 3rd November, 1875. — Sir S. S. Saundees, 

 C.M.Q-., President, in the Chair. 



As this was the first Meeting in the New Rooms at 11, Chandos Street, Cavendish 

 Square, the President delivered a short Inaugural Address. 



M. Oscar Lamarche, of Liege, was elected a Foreign Member. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited mines of Heliozela sericiella in oak. The habits of 

 this insect had for long bullied the researches dt Miero-Lepidopterists, though it was 



