44 July, 



and from the situation in which they were feeding, after the original food-plants had 

 been destroyed, must, I think, have been produced from eggs laid by some of those 

 which were swarming around us in August ; and, late as they were, they refused to 

 pass the winter in the pupa state. — Glennell Wilkinson, Castlemartin : 16^ June, 

 1880. 



[Is not this an indication of an instinctive attempt at following up the habit of 

 the species in a hotter climate, where two broods in the year are possible and usual ? 

 — C a. B.] 



Description of the larva of Ephestia ficulella. — Along with the larvae of Plodia 

 inter punctella received from Mr. J. R. Wellman, on the 21st December, 1878, and 

 already described in this journal, were several of an Ephestia, from which, on the 

 27th of August following, a single specimen was bred, agreeing perfectly with an 

 example in my cabinet named ficulella. 



Length about half an inch, and of average bulk ; head highly polished, it has 

 the lobes rounded, and the mandibles prominent ; body cylindrical, tapering anteriorly, 

 the head being the narrowest segment ; there is a distinct polished plate on the 

 second segment behind the head, and a small similarly polished space on the anal 

 segment ; skin very glossy and rather wrinkled. 



The ground colour a pale pinky-flesh, varying in depth of colour in different 

 specimens ; head and mandibles dark sienna-brown ; frontal plate still darker brown, 

 almost black : dorsal, sub-dorsal, and spiracular lines all very distinct, and 

 about equal in width, pink ; and there is still another, but a narrower, of these pink 

 lines, below the spiracles ; spiracles minute, dark brown ; tubercles large, raised, and 

 polished, very dark brown, in some specimens nearly black. 



Ventral surface greyish-white, with a faint pink tinge ; legs and prolegs tipped 

 with brown. Feeds on dried figs.— G-eo. T. Pobkitt, Highroyd House, Hudders- 

 field : June 5th, 1880. 



Nemophora pilella in Lancashire. — Last season I took a longhorn among 

 Vaccinium, high up on the moors at Green Thorn about a mile above Stoneyhurst 

 College; I suspected it was N. pilella, but only having one specimen to look at I had 

 'o let it stand over; but to show how eyes vary in seeing differences, or rather in not 

 seeing the most striking and positive characters in determining those differences, 

 I may note a keen careful eye like C. S. Gregson's could only make the specimen in 

 question a ^ of Metaxella, whereas H. T. Stainton made it into Schtoarziella, but I 

 still thought it ought to be something different on account of the situation being so 

 totally at variance with where Schwarziella occurs. Well, this season I was determined 

 to .settle the question, and towards the end of May I set off again in quest of more 

 specimens and to see the habits and general ways of the supposed pilella or a new 

 species. I took a score of specimens of both sexes in splendid condition, flying in 

 the hot sun, most actively starting up from among the Vaccinium, and when soaring 

 up into the fir trees they looked almost like worn Adela viridella, giving them quite 

 a green shining tint; the flight first of all in general appearance settled me they were 

 no Schwarziella and no Metaxella, I take the latter among alders about 2 miles lower 

 down. In the next place, just get pileVa into your net and it wants all the wind 

 you can spare to blow it baok in the net to box it, and when boxed it runs about as 



