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attenuated in the middle. The perfect insect was not 

 reared. 



82. An Incurvaria larva, found at Ratisbon by Dr. Hof- 

 mann, on hazel, in June. This larva was so like that of 

 I. Pect'mea, that I could not distinguish it. Dr. Hofmann 

 wrote concerning it as follows : — *' Last June we sent you 

 three living Incurvaria larvae from hazel, which unfor- 

 tunately got lost on the road ; from the three cases we retained 

 here, we have bred this May two specimens ( $ and ? ) of 

 an Incurvai'ia, which Dr. Herrich-Schaffer pronounces a 

 new species. It comes nearest to Oehlmanniella, but differs 

 in the $ by the unannulated dark brown antennae, and by 

 the black anal tuft. The ? is strikingly different, and is 

 almost like a Zinckenn' ( Pectinea). 



83. A larva {Cosmopteryx 1) mining in the leaves of 

 Orobus nigevy found by Herr Ernst Hofmann, near Ratis- 

 bon, at the end of July. The larva loosens the lower 

 epidermis of the entire leaf, and each eats much of the paren- 

 chyma; the leaf is slightly curved and quite bladder-like; 

 the loosened lower skin is very white. The larva spins 

 a pale ochreous cocoon outside the leaf, but attached to the 

 white loosened skin of the underside, where it is hardly per- 

 ceptible (Int. viii. p. 150). 



84. A Coleophora larva, found at Wavendon by the Rev. 

 Henry Burney, at the end of August. It feeds on the seeds 

 of Stellaria grayninea, the cylindrical whitish case being at- 

 tached to the capsule and the larva boring into the interior. 

 In captivity they eat readily the Stellaria media. When 

 the case is protruding from the calyx of an unripe capsule, 

 it looks excessively like a dried flower of the plant, and 

 would thus readily escape observation (Int. viii. p. 189). 



85. A Coleopliora larva, feeding on the leaves of Aster 

 Amellus in September and October, found near Frankfort- 



