106 LEPIDOPTERA. 



verified throughout the respective genera, as I have only bred 

 3Iuscalellaf SwammerdaiJimella, Reaumurella and Degeer- 

 ella ; this last-named species has nothing to do with Ane- 

 mones, as had been reported by various authors ; it may be 

 found near that plant, as well as near any other," &c., &c. 



As the case of Adela viridella has already been found here 

 (Int. viii. p. 101), the above remarks may lead to its detec- 

 tion in greater plenty. 



Adela Cuprella (I. B., p. 51). Where this insect occurs, 

 I would suggest that the seeds of the sallows should be 

 collected in some quantity, and then allowed to develop 

 their insect contents ; we might thus obtain the larva of 

 Adela Cuprella. 



Nemotois Scabiosellus (I. B., p. 52). The discovery of 

 the larva of this species has been already fully recorded in 

 the Intelligencer (vol. viii. p. 182) ; the following epitome 

 must suffice here, " The food plant is Scahiosa arvensis ; 

 the flowers and seeds are the first abodes of the larva ; the 

 eggs are laid in the fructification of the Scahiosa flowers, 

 each inclosed in a seed capsule. When the interior of the 

 seed has been eaten out by the larva, it immediately uses the 

 husk as a case, having gnawed a hole at the lower truncate 

 end of the hu>k : at this age the larva attacks other seeds, 

 boring into them and eating out the cases. The larger 

 larvse construct their cases of pieces of dried leaves." 



It is very difficult io find these seed-feeding larvae, they 

 are to all intents and purposes invisible; an inhabited seed 

 cannot at first be distinguished from one purely vegetable. 



In the Intelligencer I observed, that " to obtain these 

 seed-feeding larvae it would be desirable to place on a sheet 

 of white paper some scores of seeds, and then to watch them 

 attentively for five or ten minutes, as probably in that in- 

 terval the larvae would cautiously protrude their heads from 



