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autumn, and those of the autumnal flight in the spring. Probably 

 the small size of my specimens was owing to the unfavourable con- 

 ditions under which they were reared, for in nature the one set of 

 moths is every bit as fine as the other. Ulex gnllii offers a curious 

 contrast to U. europeus, by blossoming in the autiiuin and ripening its 

 seeds in the spring. 



LoBESiA KELIQUANA, Birch {Betula glutinosa) is a food-plant 

 for this Tortrix, as well as Primus spinosa. I have obtained it on 

 several occasions from the plant. A suggestion thrown out that it 

 may feed on oak is, therefore, likely enough some day to come true. 



Htponomeuta padellus. — A fact in its economy I came across 

 the other day is, perhaps, worth recording. The larvae in the spring 

 are at first leaf-miners — many together in a common mine. Frequently 

 two or three mined leaves lie close together, and the several parties 

 on taking to the web-life join to form one large colony. They moult 

 once in the mine. 



Gelechia gemmella. — The moth flies towards evening through- 

 out September in oak woods, and may also be jarred in the afternoon 

 out of the tops of the sapling trees. To hunt for its larva would be 

 pretty well a hopeless business, for it is in the tops of these same young 

 oaks, and in the buds or shoots that the animal feeds ; and it was quite 

 by accident, and when after a totally different quest, that the solitary 

 larva I ever saw was taken. We (Dr. Chapman and I) had been 

 looking one day late in June for the egg-pockets of Adela virideJla, 

 and as no success attended our search, a handful! of small boughs was 

 gathered from the heads of the trees for more careful examination at 

 home. During this examination, in partiall}' removing a leaf that 

 sprung from the base of a fat terminal bud, a cavity was exposed that 

 led down into the shoot, and also extended a short way up the stalk 

 of the leaf. Expecting that I might have something very choice, 1 was 

 chary of enlarging the opening much in order to get a complete view 

 of the larva. Nevertheless, the following description, so far as it 

 goes, may be taken as accurate : — " Slender, transparent, watery-white, 

 and shining. Head honey-brown, eyes black ; thoracic plate honey- 

 brown, speckled with grey ; spots large and pale grey, those on the 

 thoracic segments very large. Unfortunately, no mention is made of 

 the shape of these spots, nor whether segments 3 and A had each four 

 spots on the back, viz., a large outside pair and a small inside one, each 

 spot armed with a hair, which is the arrangement so characteristic of 



