106 [May, 



first ? {in cop.) on March 30th, and did not, I think, take another 

 until the 8th, when I found out the reason of its apparent rarity. 

 When disturbed with the beating stick the (J flies out, hut the ? drops 

 to tlie ground like a stone. After this discovery the ? was no longer 

 a rarity, and I caught quite as many females as males. 



I had for nearly ten years beaten these same spruce hedges at 

 the proper time of the year, and yet I had never seen a specimen. 

 At first I could hardly believe I had overlooked it, and out of curiosity 

 I searched on several days when it was plentiful, at my ordinary time 

 of collecting, from about 5.30, but I never saw a trace of pycjmcBana ! 

 The moth was only to be met with from about 12.30 to about 4.30 ; 

 after mid-day is, I think, really the best time. 



This year the season is somewhat later, and pygmeeana has not 

 yet put in appearance, but as it is later in coming out it will probably 

 remain until the beginning of May. Last year was altogether an 

 exceptional one, and I should think the 15th of April would be about 

 the date of its being well out under normal conditions. I think it 

 will be found that pggmcsana is not really a rarity, but that it is only 

 to be obtained at hours when entomologists, as a rule, have not the 

 leisure to work for it. 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 



April 3rd, 1895. 



DESCEIPTION OF THE HITHEETO UNKNOWN IMAGO OF 



FUME A? LIMULUS, Eghfe. ; 



THE TYPE OF A NEW GENUS OF DEPRESSARIAB^. 



BY JOHN HARTLEY DURRANT, F.E.S., Memb. Soc. Ent. de France. 



In the first volume of the Ent. Mo. Mag., pp. 125—0 (1864), 

 Mr. McLachlan described and figured the curious cases of an unknown 

 Ceylon insect from the British Museum collection of cases of Caddis- 

 worms ; he referred these cases with little doubt to the Leptoceridce. 



In 1889, Herr Eogenhofer (overlooking Mr. McLachlan's paper) 

 described and figured the case, and the anterior segments of the larva 

 of the same insect, and although unacquainted with the imago, bestowed 

 upon it the name of Fumea ? limulus. 



Mr. McLachlan (Ent. Mo. Mag., XXV, 362) pointed out that 

 Eogenhofer's case was the same as his own, and was disposed to agree 

 that it was more probably of Lepidopterous than of Trichopterous 

 oritiin. 



