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vegetable diet ; they continued to feed till November, when, 

 taking up their positions, they remained as fixtures. When 

 spring returned, I expected to see them on the move, but, 

 observing no signs, concluded they were in the pupa state. 

 At the end of June two males and two females appeared ; 

 in getting them out of the jar I was astonished to see one of 

 the largest cases moving about — a fellow I had noticed for 

 months attached to the glass, with his head downwards. 

 Placing some hawthorn in the jar had the effect of soon 

 starting several cases on the move; the larvae eating haw- 

 thorn voraciously, it is quite evident a number of them in- 

 tend living another year. Lately I observed one of the 

 larvae feeding on the abdomen of an old dried Noctua, and 

 another busy at work on the thorax of Arctia Villica," &c., 

 &c. (Int. viii. p. 149). 



Tmea CaprimulgeUa (I. B., p. 32). Mr. Scott took a 

 specimen of this insect, at the end of July, on the trunk of 

 a tree in Blackheath Park (Int. viii, p. 147). 



Adela viridella (I. B., p. 50). In the recent Semestre of 

 the " Annales de la Societe Entomologique Beige," is a 

 notice by Monsieur Leon Becker of the transformations of 

 this insect, under the name of Adela Reaumur ella. From 

 this I make the following extracts : — 



" On the 9th April, 1860, M. Ode and I went for an 

 excursion to the wood of Ma Cambre,' in order to investigate 

 the accumulated dried leaves in the copses there. At the 

 foot of the beeches and hazels which grow there w^e soon 

 discovered a great number of flat, oval cases. Some years 

 previously we had observed, in this spot, swarms of the 

 beautiful and elegant Adela MeaumiireUa, and, thinking that 

 these curious cases might belong to the larva of that species, 

 we collected them in great numbers. Our expectations were 

 reahzed, and on the 16th April a male specimen was bred. 



