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bog just outside the Verner demesne, being late in the season, howerer, most of thera 

 were rather the worse for wear. From the stems of Typha latifolia I got some pupse 

 of Nonagria typh<B,=arundinis, of which four came to maturity. The MuUinures 

 (low damp meadows just outside the town") provided me with Zygctna Jilipendula, 

 Z. loniceree, and Z. trifolii. Amphipyra tragopogonis occurred in numbers in 

 holes in a poplar tree. Cocoons from Lowry's Lough produced two beautiful 

 specimens of Plusiafestncce, and in my garden I took at night P. v-aureum,^pulcArina, 

 jP. chrysitis, P. gamma, Xylophasia polyodon,=monoglypha, Triphcena janthlna, 

 Cidaria prunata, C. fuJvata, Cerostoma xylostella, Xanthosetia Zoegana and a 

 multitude of others not worth mentioning. Lastly, Sphinx convolvuli, as already 

 recorded (p. 132), was found dead outside a window by Mr. T. Smith, and I picked 

 up TripkcBna fimbria dead on a footpath, that being the first time I had met with it 

 here. It will be seen from the above notes that the Rhopalocera are very poorly 

 represented here, and the Heterocera, while more numerous and having some good 

 species among them, are mostly of the commoner kinds as far as my knowlege of 

 them goes at present. — W. F. Johnson, Winder Terrace, Armagh : Jan. Ath, 1888. 



Tinea granella at King's Lynn. — This town, having a large import trade in 

 corn, serves naturally as an opening for immigration of corn-feeding insects. 

 Ephestia hiterpunctella sometimes abounds in, and outside, the warehouses — bearing 

 a most comical resemblance when at rest to a black oat grain sticking against a wall — 

 while Gelechia cerealella is at times even more plentiful, and still better concealed 

 by its extraordinary resemblance to a bit of chaff. But the really important grain- 

 pest here is Tinea granella. Its abundance is at times almost beyond belief, the 

 streets near the river swarm with it on warm evenings to such an extent as to arouse 

 the wonder of the inhabitants. In a corn warehouse I have found that the wooden 

 upright supports and partitions wherever the wood was soft or slightly decayed were 

 honeycombed on the surface with the holes made by the full-fed larvse for pupation, 

 and, in every protected corner, chink and cranny, the empty pupa-cases were still 

 sticking out of these holes as thickly together as the hairs in a brush — thousands of 

 pupa skins giving the wood an extraordinary appearance. 



But the larva3 cannot always find soft wood into which to bore, and they wander 

 out through doors and windows in search of some suitable place for pupation, and 

 may be collected in scores under lintels, in the holes and interstices of bricks, or 

 under boards or other articles lying upon the ground. They are warmly appreciated 

 as delicate tit-bits by the swarms of sparrows which obtain their livelihood generally 

 in a far less creditable manner from the heaps of grain, and it is most curious to see 

 (as I can often from my office window) a hundred or more of these ubiquitous birds 

 on the warehouse and dwellings opposite, a large parly of them every now and then 

 flying to, and hovering against, the granary M'all,or even perching upon the roughest 

 places and so picking out these wandering larvse. The freshly ai-rived cargoes of 

 grain from some warm climate furnish them in abundance and full-fed, and they 

 seize such mild days as we have just experienced to seek their fortunes — to the 

 great joy of the sparrows. 



The larva is rather plump with deeply divided segments, and tapers slightly 

 behind, yellowish-white, " fat-white," with head pale brown and jaws rather darker, 

 dorsal plate very pale brown, shading at the margins into yellowish, divided in the 



