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settliug on the surface of the water, then closing their wings, diving into the water, 

 and swimming ahout vigorously beneath the surface. It seems to me highly desirable 

 to place such an important notice of habits on record. Unfortunately, he is not 

 able to say whether the habit is common to both sexes, or exists only in the ? . 

 Stenop$yche is somewhat allied to Hydropsyche, and has the intermediate legs of the 

 ? scarcely so much dilated as in that genus. They are large insects (sometimes 

 nearly an inch and a half in length with the wings closed), and with remarkably 

 long and narrow anterior wings (which are also much longer than the posterior), so 

 that the long lanceolate form of the insect with closed wings must proTe of decided 

 advantage in swimming beneath the surface ; but they also have very long slender 

 antenna?, which must be somewhat in the way if held porrect, as would be the 

 case when at rest in the open air. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham : Jan. 17th, 1885. 



Notes on Goniodoma Millierella, Ragonot.— It is very true that the generic 

 name of Qoniodoma does not seem well adapted for an insect, whose case is composed 

 of a flower-calyx, which is not at all angular ; besides this, I may observe that the 

 character assigned to Goniodoma, that the larva doee not change to pupa within its 

 case, " metamorphosis extra saccum," does not suit our Goniodoma Millierella any 

 better, since I am very certain I have bred the moths from cases gathered singly, 

 one at a time, amongst which I feel convinced I had no particle of dead stem into 

 which they could have bored. I would not speak so positively had this only 

 happened in a solitary instance, but as I bred in this way from 8 to 10 specimens, 

 I am sure there was no room for error as to the conditions. My cases had not been 

 left on the stems, they were gathered with only a small portion of the inflorescent 

 sprig to which they were attached, and were placed in a little bottle of very small 

 dimensions. Whilst wanting tins I look again at the cases I placed in the bottle as 

 I gathered them, and I am satisfied that there is not amongst them any fragment of 

 stem visible ; hence, the creature must have undergone its metamorphoses within 

 its case. Next, as to the question of referring these insects to the genus Coleophora, 

 I would observe that they do not carry the antennae in the true Coleophora fashion ;* 

 they are never directed in front, nor are they placed close together, but they are 

 always thrown backwards and laid on the back when the insect is at rest. The 

 antennse, besides, seem to me rather longer, more slender and more flexible than is 

 usual in the genus Coleophora. During the winter I will search amongst the stems 

 of Statice virgata, to see if I can find some tenanted by G. Millierella, for up to 

 the present time I have only obtained it from larvae, which had not quitted their 

 cases.— A. Constaijt, Villa Niobe, G-olfe Juan (Alpes Maritimes) , France : November 

 24th, 1884 



Habits of 'Ephippiphora tetragonana. — I was much pleased to read that Mr. 

 Sang had bred this species (see ante, p. 191). I will now give a little of my 

 1 experience bearing on his discovery. 



In 1878, I was staying at the Waterloo G-ardens, Windermere ; a rose-tree 



covered one part of the house next to the lake. It was a very hot afternoon, and I 



was busy picking Nepticida larvae off the rose-tree, when I spied a fine B. 



tetragonana sitting on a rose-leaf close by, then another, and then another (in all 3), 



* Mr. G. Coverdale had also noticed this of limonicUa.— H. T. S. 



