OBSERVATIONS ON BRITISH TIKEINA. 107 



the inhabited seeds ; but in order that tliey may do this, the 

 observer must be very quiet, as these larva are so excessively 

 timorous that the least noise or movement is sufficient to 

 alarm them, and would prevent them venturing out. 



Nexwtois cupriacelhds (I. B., p. 52). At the August 

 Meeting of the Entomological Society of London, Mr. Mit- 

 ford exhibited some whales of this species ; they were taken 

 along with, and some of them in copula with, the veritable 

 female Capriacellus. They appear extremely similar to 

 iV". Jlinimelhis. Mr. Mitford observed the females de- 

 positing their eggs in the flowers of the scabious at Hamp- 

 stead (Int. viii. p. 157, and Zoologist, 7162). 



In September last, incited by Dr. Hofmann's discovery of 

 the larvae of 2^. Scahiosdhuy, Mr. Healy went to Epping 

 Forest in search of the larvae of N. cupriacellus, visiting a 

 spot where the imago had been plentiful the preceding year. 

 He collected a number of flower-heads of Scabiosa succisa, 

 which grew in plenty there. These heads were placed on 

 white paper and watched, but no movement was perceived. 

 They were then put into jam pots with glass covers, in the 

 expectation that if any of tlie seeds were tenanted the larva 

 would crawl up towards the glass cover for fresh air. The 

 contents of the jam pots were then watched incessantly, but 

 no larvae were seen and no movement was perceived. When 

 Mr. Healy had despaired of obtaining any larvae in this 

 way, and the seed-heads having become decayed he was 

 about to throw them away and clean out the pots, he per- 

 ceived four cases sticking to the inside of one of the pots, 

 about a quarter of an inch above the decayed seed-heads, 

 and then observed a case move. His eyes being educated 

 by the sight of these, he commenced a careful seai'ch 

 amongst the heads, and in less than ten minutes had col- 

 lected thirty tenanted cases (Int. ix. p. 12). Whether 



