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received larvae of this species from Professor Frey, who 

 collected them in the leaves of Margarita hellidiastrum, 

 near Ziirich. 



The insect has been found at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 

 mining the leaves of Aster amellus. Probably it occurs 

 further north on othei* Compositor. 



The mine on the Margarita hellidiastrum is very peculiar ; 

 the larva mines the upperside of the leaf from the tip towards 

 the base ; the mined place is at first red, afterwards brown, 

 and puckered and raised up in the middle (like the mine of 

 Nepticula Weaveri on Vaccinium Vitis Idcea). 



Corisciiim cuculipennellum. Mr. Fereday has noticed in 

 the '* Intelligencer" (vol. ix. p. 140) the occurrence of this 

 insect near Folkestone. " I have two specimens, which I 

 bred from about a dozen pupae collected from a privet bush 

 on the coast at Folkestone ; they were all found on one bush, 

 and my search on other bushes proved quite fruitless. The 

 formation of the end of the privet leaf into a cone, containing 

 the pupa within, was very remarkable for symmetry of con- 

 struction, being turned and jointed with the greatest nicety ; 

 it should be seen before the leaf has withered to be duly 

 appreciated ; when withered the cone becomes distorted. It 

 was a source of regret that I knew not how to preserve its 

 original form." 



*Or?iix Pfaffenzelleri. Thus noticed by Professor Frey 

 (Int. X. p. 164):- 



*' On the rocky cliffs of the Engadine there grows a small 

 thornless shrub, from three to five feet high, with small, oval, 

 somewhat thick leaves and small red berries, Cotoneaster 

 vulgaris^ Linn. This is the food-plant of Ornix Pfaffen- 

 zelleri, which fii'st mines a leaf, and then rolls up another 

 leaf so as to form a habitation similar to that constructed by 

 0. Torquillella or 0. guttea, in which it passes the re- 



