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impossible to remember the exact distribution of over 3,000 species. As T am 

 endeavouring to keep the distribution of onr species up-to-date, I shall be 

 very much oblig-ed if Coleopterists will kindly fall in with my sug-gestion. — 

 Id.: April 6th, 1910. 



A further instance of Coleophora trnglodytella, Bup., feeding on Achillea 

 millefolium, L., in Britain. — As Mr. Eustace R. Bankes, in his interesting notice 

 on this point in the March number of this Magazine, asks for further particvi- 

 lars, the following note may be of interest. On June 11th, 1907, my brother 

 Mr. H. Leonard Sich, sent me from Bepton, West Svissex, several larvee he had 

 foimd feeding, in cases, on yarrow. The larvse mined in the segments of the 

 leaves, making two or three entrance holes in each segment. The mined 

 portions turned light brown and soon withered. In the latter half of July I 

 bred from these larvae two males and four females of Coleophora troglodytella. 

 Before the imagines appeared, my hopes of having obtained something new 

 had been dispelled by consulting the works of Continental authors and finding 

 tliat yarrow was recorded as one of the food-plants of this Coleophora. Baron 

 de Crombrugghe de Picquendaele, in his catalogue of the Micro-Lepidoptm-a of 

 Belgiiun (Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg., xiv, p. 77, 1906), mentions Achillea as one of 

 the food-plants of this species. In Bohemia, C. troglodytella appears to be 

 especially fond of Achillea, as Dr. Ottokar Nickerl writes (in German) : "The 

 larva with us on Achillea millefolium." {Die Matt en Bohmens, p. 82, 1908). — 

 Alfred Sich, Corney House, Chiswick, W. : April, 1910. 



Nemoiira meyeri, Pict., abundant in March. — Whilst beating the still leafless 

 branches overhanging the stream running through Harden Clough, Hudders- 

 field, on the afternoon of Easter Monday, March 28th, I was surprised to note 

 the abundance of Nemoura meyeri, Pict., at so early a date. The species occurred 

 commonly all up the stream and was, I think, as plentiful as I have ever seen 

 it in the summer months. N. prsecox, Morton, was not uncommon along with 

 it, hnt was not nearly so numerous as meyeri. The afternoon was very sunny 

 and warm, notwithstanding an east wind, biit was followed by a night so 

 intensely cold as to cause a considerable thickness of ice. 



As Mr. King tells us (A List of the Neuroptera of Ireland, 1910), that "the 

 range of N. meyeri in Great Britain is not known," it may be well to record that 

 it is one of the commonest species of its genus in West Yorkshire, occurring 

 freely apparently on all the narrow " clough " streams, and equally so on tlie 

 larger rivers such as the Wharfe. — Geo. T. Porritt, Dalton, Huddersfield : 

 April 9th, 1910. 



A species of Mycetojjhila bred in England. — A year or two ago Mr. E. W. 

 Swanton, the Cm-ator of the Haslemere Educational Mviseum, met with some 

 curious Ancylus- or miniature limpet-like creatures, near the highest part of 

 Blackdown, Siissex, feeding on a rotten sodden oak branch attacked by the 

 fungus Poria vulgaris, but could find no one to tell him what they were. Last 

 autiunn he met with them, under similar conditions, in another locality about 



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