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searching near Teignmouth for tlio larvas of Ornix devoniella, observed 
the same cone-formations on the leaves of the Pyrus tornimalis, but 
was too late to find the larvae. The subject is one well worthy of 
further observation. 
Coleophora apicella. — In the autumn of 1864, the Eev. Henry 
Burney handed over to my custody some Coleophora larvae which he had 
collected on the seeds of Stellaria graminea ; from these I had the good 
fortune to breed five specimens on the IGth and 17th of June, 1865. 
These specimens were undoubtedly apicella, but the males have the 
anterior wings broader than the females, and the original apicella was 
described from a female specimen. Before describing the insect de novo, 
I should like to see an extensive series of bred specimens. Unfortu- 
nately Mr. Burney did not meet with the larvge during the season 
of 1865. 
Elachista ochreella. — On the 23rd August, 1865, I received from 
Mr. Scott some Elachista larvae, collected by him in a species of Poa {?) 
at Stockton Forest, near York. The mines Avere long, flat (or only 
very slightly puckered), and of a whitish-brown. It was expected that 
these larvae would have produced E. ochreella, but unfortunately nothing 
was bred from them. 
Lithocolletis 7iigrescentella. — Nearly three years ago I received from 
Mr. Sang the following communication, which should have been noticed 
ere this in the pages of the Entomologist's Annual, but had got acci- 
dentally overlooked, " I think I shall now prove to your satisfaction 
that nigrescentella and Bremiella are forms of the same species. They 
appear to be very variable in colour and markings, the ground colour 
varying from that of the figure in the Annual of 1856 to the dark olive 
of nigrescentella. I bred none so dull in colour as that figured in the 
Natural History of the Tineina, vol. 2, p. 4, fig. 3 ; the bright ones 
have broader margins of black to the spots than you figure. The con- 
vincing specimen is marked, so that the left wing is Bremiella, and the 
right wing is nigrescentella. 
" The specimens with the light ground colours copulate with those 
of the darker ground colour, but the difference in colour is not sexual ; 
those with the darker ground colour are the more numerous. 
" I bred two of an allied species from clover foimd on the coast. 
Are these insignitella ? " 
And in the following year Mr. Sang added some additional obser- 
vations, thus : " I have bred a number of the Lithocolletis from clover 
(which I wrote about last year), and see no real diff"erence between 
