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Note on a new food plant of Coleophora lineolea. — This species now swarms 

 here on Stachys lanata, flying at dusk. In former years I have seen one now and 

 then ; this year there are many hundreds, the colony, after the manner of migrants, 

 having increased and multiplied exceedingly. I had not observed the larva-cases in 

 the spring, and now the radical leaves of the plant, on which the larvse would have 

 fed, having decayed, I cannot find any. There is no Ballota nigra nor Stachys 

 sylvatica near, so I cannot track their course from their usual food. Like other 

 pilgrims their beginning, after leaving their natural camping ground, was probably 

 small ; like other restless Britons they have acquired a change and something 

 foreign ; and, unlike some of the said Britons, they have prospered. S. lanata was 

 imported from Siberia and naturalized in gardens here a century ago. — J. W. 

 Douglas, 8, Beaufort G-ardens, Lewisham : July 10th, 1885. 



Coleophora vibicigerella bred. — The cases mentioned in my former note (vol. 

 xxi, p. 206, Ent. Mo. Mag.) I am pleased to say produced the above-named species ; 

 the first specimen emerged June 27th, two more on the 30th, and one in about every 

 three or four days since, so that up to the present time I have bred seven ; and as 

 their emergence seems to take place at such long intervals, I still hope to breed 

 more. It is very satisfactory even so far, that I have been able to get them through 

 the winter, for most of the hibernating Coleophora are very difficult to rear, especi- 

 ally in London, which I think must be in consequence of the impurities of the 

 atmosphere during the winter, particularly if we get a few of the real London fogs. 



I am sorry to say the other cases mentioned in my former note have quite dis- 

 appeared, owing to the destructive propensities of the cats hereabouts, in tearing 

 the gauze off the top of the cage, and which, by its appearance, must have been off 

 some days before I observed the loss, so that all my larvse had crawled away ; but I 

 hope next year, with a little more care, to be able to give some account of this species 

 also.— aEO, Elisha, Shepherdess Walk, City Road : July 14fh, 1885. 



Lepidostoma hirtnm bred. — L. hirtum has come out of a quadrangular case 

 to-day, so there appear to be three makers of such cases, viz., Brachycentrus, | 

 Crunoecia irrorata, and L. hirtum. — Kenneth J. Morton, Carluke, N, B. : July 

 lUh, 1885. 



Note on the genus Achorotile, Fieb.— The genus Achorotile, which is character- 

 ized {inter alia) by having two sub-parallel middle keels on the face, and the channels 

 between them and the side keels tuberculate, comprises, according to the 2nd Edition 

 of Dr. Puton's Catalogue of European Hemiptera, three species, which may be 

 tabulated as follows : — 



1 (2). Dirty yellowish- white, with a dark brown stripe reaching the entire length of 



each side, and a broad dark brown band across the face between the eyes. 



bivittata, Boh. 



2 (1). Face without a dark band. 



3 (4). Black or blackish, a wide stripe down the crown ; pronotum and scutellum, 



and the hind margins of the first two dorsal segments of the abdomen, 



