1881. 240 



ELACHISTIDiE. 



Laverna miscella, Hub. — Two, June 6th, at Cea. 



There is a single specimen of the genus JElachista, but it is too 

 worn to be determined. 



LITHOCOLLETID.E. 



Lithocolletis caudiferella, Ragonot (Ann. Ent. Soc. Erance, 1876, 

 p. 415). — Two specimens among cork-oaks; one, May 10th, by the 

 stream near Aldea do Neuves ; the other, May 12th, by the streamlet 

 near Sao Barnabe. 



L. messaniella, Zell. — One, April 29th, by the main stream below 

 Cintra, amongst bushes. 



L. adenocarpi, Staudinger. — One, May 19th, amongst bushes by the 

 stream to the south of Monchique, at an elevation of 1500 feet. 



LYONETID.E. 

 Opostega crepusculella, Zell. — One, rather worn, May 19th, by the 

 stream to the south of Monchique, at an elevation of 1200 feet. 



NEPTICULID^. 

 Nepticula suberis, Stainton (Tineina of Southern Europe, p. 229). 

 — Two specimens, in fairly fine condition, May 10th, on the trunks 

 of cork-oaks by the stream near Aldea do Neuves. 



Mountsfield, Lewisham : 



March, 1881. 



FURTHER NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF HYDROCAMPA 



XYMPBA1ALIS. 



BY WILLIAM BUCKLER. 



I have once more to express my gratitude to Mr. "W. B. Jeffrey, 

 of Ashford, for persevering aid in carrying on my observations on this 

 species, by means of which I am in a position to offer several particu- 

 lars as additions to my former paper in the February No. of Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. for 1876 (vol. xii,p. 210). That paper contained descriptions of 

 the larva, and of its case when made from Potamogeton, and was sup- 

 plemented on points to which, at that time, my own observations had 

 not extended, by extracts from Reaumur ; and in the correspondence, 

 to which it gave rise between us, my friend Mr. E. McLachlan, ex- 

 pressed a belief that further investigation would prove the larva to be 

 polyphagous, and not confined to Potamogeton only. I have the 

 pleasure of commencing my present notes by furnishing a full confir- 

 mation of this belief ; I shall then relate in detail the movements of 

 larva?, which I watched very carefully and minutely while they were 

 engaged in case-making. I have to give an account of a moult which 



