104 .October, 



shed seed aud grass. Two or three stems of the grass are enclosed, as 

 also some oats. There seems to be a difference in the cases as well as 

 larvae. There may be two kinds among them. They are new to me, 

 and I do not find them in the volume of the genus lately published. 

 What are they ?" As the grass sent did not appear to be eaten in 

 any way, I wrote for some further information, but was unable to 

 obtain any ; Mr. Brockholes' reply, dated October 23rd, 1859, was as 

 follows : — 



" I can give you no information at present about the Coleophora 

 cases. The grasses are dying down, and the cases seem to be princi- 

 pally made up for the winter. In spring I shall be better able to find 

 out something about them." 



The case I have described as " ochreous or brownish, with some 

 darker stripes, rather stout and short," and, if 1 am not mistaken, it 

 was very similar to the case of annulatella ; thus differing very con- 

 siderably from the case of Lindeman's tritici. 



In the answers to enigmas, at p. 114 of the Entomologists' Annual 

 for 1861, we read of these Birkenhead stack-yard larvae : "Mr. Gregson 

 sent me a specimen of Coleophora annulatella, as having been bred 

 from the larvae referred to last year. But I am strongly disposed to 

 think some error has crept in here." 



I am, now rather disposed to think, however, that the larva may, 

 indeed, truly have been those of annulatella, and that the error which 

 had crept in was in the assumption that they had fed either on the 

 oats or on the grass. Annulatella occurs by hundreds on the Atriplex 

 which grows along the ground in corn fields ; would it be at all won- 

 derful if some dozens of the larvae got carried to the stack-yard ? 



Moimtsfield, Lewisham : \ 



Auffust 18th, 1882. i 



NATURAL HISTOEY OP EPHESTIA PASSULELLA. 

 BY WILLIAM BUCKLER. 



On the 4th of September, 1881, Mr. Sydney Webb very kindly^ 

 sent me a batch of eggs of this small species, laid loosely by the parent ' 

 moth, which he had captured in the Oil-Cake Company's Warehouse 

 a short time before. 



The eggs began to hatch on the 8th of September and continued to 

 do so at intervals for two or three days, and the little larvae were con- 

 fiued with some pieces of the pod of the " Locust-bean " of commerce, 

 which Mr. Webb had also kindly provided for them, aud iu course of 



