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ROSLERSTAMMIA PRONUBELLA, W.V.; a single 

 specimen of this very conspicuous species was taken at 

 Sutherlandshire, in May last, by Mr. Buxton ; its capture is 

 recorded in the Zoologist, page 4437. The insect is very rare 

 on the Continent; and though known to the authors of the 

 Wiener Verzeichniss, and Fabricius who mis-spells it pro- 

 mulella, it had been quite lost sight of by later authors 

 (unless we except Hiibner, whose figure, it is most charitable 

 to suppose, was made from a description, form and colour 

 both being so excessively faulty), till lately it has been 

 noticed by Herrich-Schaffer and Reutti. The extraordinary 

 way in which some species seem entirely to disappear, and 

 then, after a lapse of many years, simultaneously turn up in 

 many distant localities, is one of the great marvels of Ento- 

 mology. 



Alis anticis viridi-aureis, costa ipsa in medio dilute lutea ; alis post ieis 

 dilute luteis griseo-fimbriatis. Exp. al. G^- lin. 



Head dark yellow, in front deep purple. Face and palpi pale yellow. 

 Antennae dark fuscous, a short space before the apex white. Anterior 

 wings shining golden green, darkest towards the base near the costa; the 

 costa, from a little before the middle to beyond the middle, is pale yel- 

 lowish ; cilia pale greyish bronze. Posterior wings pale yellowish, with 

 all the margins rather dark fuscous, darkest towards the apex; cilia pale 

 grey. Posterior legs pale yellowish white. 



COLEOPHORA LIMOSIPENNELLA, F. v. R. ; 



bred this summer from "elm leaves, picked at Sutton, with 

 the large Coleophora of the elm (limosipennella ?)" (Ent. 

 Comp. 127); and also from similar larvae on alder, thus 

 noticed in Ent. Comp. 133 : " Aug. 23rd, T. B. sent me two 

 Coleophora larvae from alder, the cases similar to those of 

 C. limosipennella?" In July, 1854, I collected the larva? 

 very plentifully on elms, near the Bee-hive at Burford 

 Bridge. The species in the perfect state closely resembles 

 C. badiipennella, but is larger and darker, and the whitish 



