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OBSERVATIONS ON BRITISH TINEINA. 



(Supplementary to the Insecta Britannica — Lepid- 

 OPTERA, Tineina; and to the Entomologist's Com- 

 panion, 2nd Edition.*) 



Tal(eporia pseudobomhi/cella (I. B., p. 18). The carni- 

 vorous propensities of the larva of this species have been 

 observed by Mr. Healy ; one larva devoured four females of 

 Diplodoma marginepunctella and a dead 3Iu:ropteryx pur- 

 purella ; another ate two house-flies and a perfect insect of 

 its own species (Int. viii. pp. 44 and 156). 



Diplodoma mMrginepuvctella (I. B., p. 20). Of a larva 

 of this species, Mr. Healy observes in August, *' I have in 

 my possession a larva of the above species, whicli I found 

 at West Wickham last May, and, since I had it, it has eaten 

 one Torlrix, several common house-flies, and some ie\x 

 Micros. I have never given it any green food, but kept 

 it solely on insects, which it has greedily devoured" (Int. viii. 

 p. 156). Mr. Edleston has also continued his observations 

 on the habits of this insect — " keeping the larvae in a glass 

 jar, giving them bruised beetles, earwigs, &c., for their car- 

 nivorous propensities, and a sprig of hawthorn for their 



* We are sorry to say, that this Edition is now quite exhausted, and 

 that we shall therefore soon be under the necessity of preparing a revised 

 Edition; this, however, wuU be a work of time, which we cannot under- 

 take just at present. 



