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mixed with rose, vetch and gooseberry. I imagine that the 

 young larva mines in the leaves of privet, as the perfect 

 insect is always sitting on the flowers of that plant. The 

 larvse are now feeding on various dry leaves." (G. G. M., 

 3,4,61.) 



The cases of these larvae were elongate, with parallel sides, 

 apparently made by additions spun round a central nucleus. 



Nemotois Scabiosellus. " I forward you six specimens of 

 the still living, last year's larvag of N. Scabiosellus. Out of 

 about twenty larvse which lived through last winter, only two 

 imagos have appeared. It is thus evident that as we have 

 already noticed that the larvae of Nemotois Violellus will 

 live over two winters, so those of N. Scabiosellus and N. 

 Minim ellus do likewise. Of both these species we have this 

 year proportionally bred very few moths, and often in the 

 smallest cases of N. Violellus and N. 3Iinimellus we found 

 larvcB still living." (F. H., 20, 9, 61.) 



Nemotois cupriacellus. Mr. Healy succeeded in keeping 

 many of his larvae (E. A., 1861, p. 107) through last 

 winter, but none of them made their appearance in the 

 perfect state. 



Nemotois Fasciellus. " To-day was our first fine spring 

 day. I did not let it pass unemployed, and was fortunate in 

 finding some Nemotois cases amongst the radical leaves of 

 BaJlota nigra. These will probably be N. Schiffer- 

 7nilhrellus, S. V., of which some years ago I took a wasted 

 female in the same locahty. At the end of December I 

 found some similar cases, but then very small ; these have 

 safely survived the winter, and now are nearly as large as the 

 specimens I found to day. 



" The young larvae probably first feed in the flowers, like 

 all their alhes." (A. S., 24, 3, 61). 



These larvae produced N. Fasciellus, Fab. The Schiffer- 



