116 p:xigmas still unanswered. 



Boyd, bl^TO^villg in the bark of apple trees, at the beginning 

 of May, 1859 ; it constructs a gallery of ' frass.' " 



76. *' A Coleojjhora larva, found by Herr Hofmann, the 

 beginning of October, on oak and hazel near Ratisbon. The 

 case of the larva is most extraordinary ; the cases I have 

 seen are all rather small, but they possess large alary appen- 

 dages, attached to a slender central tube ; viewed from above 

 the case is almost broader than long ; the wings of this case 

 are black, the body, or rather the tail portion, is brown, the 

 anterior part of the tube being darker." 



77. " A Coleophora larva, found by Mr. Edleston, early 

 in April, on the seeds of the Lvzula campestris. Theo- 

 retically, this ought to have been C. murinipennella, but 

 the case w^as different, being cylindrical, greyish-ochreous, 

 with the mouth turned round, indeed the case was very 

 similar to that of C. argentulaJ" 



79. ^' A mining larva, collected by Herr Schmid, at the 

 end of October, 1 859, in the leaves of Lysimachia vulgaris ; 

 the mine is slightly puckered, but yet reminds one consider- 

 ably of the mine which Stepkensia JBrunnichella constructs 

 in the leaves of Clinupodium.'' 



NEW ENIGMAS FOR SOLUTION. 



81. A case of one of the long-horn larvae was found by 

 Mr. Douglas near Lee ; it was " found among grass on a 

 bank," near the end of May. It does not accord precisely 

 with any Adela, kc. case I know. It was formed by succes- 

 sive additions round a brown oval nucleus, being however 



