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tapered off gradually to the tip ; the pnpa siin rather smooth, but with little polish 

 excepting in the abdominal divisions ; its colour a dark pui-plish-brown on the thorax 

 and wing covers, not quite so dark on the abdomen. The interior of the reed stem in 

 which the pupa lay was smooth, and of an opaquCj deep, sooty-brown colour, but 

 without any lining of silk. — William Bucklee, Emsworth : December 27^A, 1873. 



Notes on some Tineina observed in 1873. — Dasi/stoma salicella : bred two females 

 in April, from larvte between united leaflets of dog-rose. Solenobia inconspicuella : 

 bred females in May, from larvae collected in October, 1872 ; also found larvae in 

 June. Swammerdamia pyrella : found two larvae of this species still feeding, and 

 not full grown, at the end of October. Gracilaria stigmatella : found three or four 

 larvae on willow on June 23rd, and bred one imago on July 24th, and in August and 

 September collected some thirty larvae, but bred only one moth, nearly all the others 

 being parasitized ; from this it would appear that the insect must be double brooded. 

 Gracilaria ononidis : cauglit a specimen in fine condition on September 2nd, in the 

 kitchen of my dwelling, the first I ever saw alive ; the date of appearance, coupled 

 with its fine condition, favours the possibility of a second brood of larvae of this 

 species, as suggested in Nat. Hist. Tin., viii, 176. Coriscium Brongniardellum : 

 having bred this insect at end of July and beginning of August, I was much surprised 

 on finding some six or seven feeding vigorously in two oak leaves on the 21st of 

 August at Tliorngrove ; I was unable to examine the vessel they were put into until 

 the middle of September, when I found they had escaped tlirough some small outlets, 

 so I failed to trace them beyond the larval state. Oji October 18th I found several 

 deserted habitations of an Oriiix (apparently) on leaves of Pyrus torminalis, and 

 one containing a larva, which died after commencing its cocoon. On September 30th 

 I found two larvae of a Coleophora feeding on hawthorn ; tlie cases resembled those of 

 C.fuscedineUa, and were about as large as those oi fuscedinella when full fed. Litho- 

 colletis Ilessaniella : bred several from leaves of beech. Lijonetia Clervlcella : bred 

 this from hawthorn aiid cherry-laurel. Phi/lJocnistis saligna : larvae and pupae 

 collected June 21st, produced moths at end of June and in July ; others collected 

 on August 4tli produced moths in August ; and another lot collected on the 25th 

 September, yielded moths in October. On the 18tli October, I found two larvae of a 

 Nepticula making long contorted galleries in leaves of Pt/rus torminalis, at Wicken- 

 ford. One larva was lost, the other was accidentally crushed just when it had 

 commenced making its cocoon. Nepticnla aurella : found four or five larva which, 

 from the cocoons they formed, shoidd belong to this species, in leaves of raspberry, 

 in my garden, early in October. — J. E. Fletchee, Pitmaston Road, Worcester : 

 February 2nd, 1874. 



Zoological nomenclature. — In the Review published in last month's number of 

 this Magazine of my pamphlet on Zoological Nomenclature, it is said, that if the 

 propositions of the pamphlet should be adopted, " the mere collector has the satis- 

 " faction of a thoroughly unchangeable name, whereas the unhappy student must 

 " adopt a ti'inomial nomenclature." This statement is incomplete, and is calculated 

 to convey an erroneous impression. 



It is quite true that the " mere collector " (as well as every one else) woiild have 

 a thoroughly unchangeable name for a species ; but it is not true that the student 



