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NEW ENIGMAS FOR SOLUTION. 



91. A Gelechia ? larva, found August 10th, on the under- 

 side of alder leaves at Reigate ; it diaws two side ribs together 

 from beneath, and lives in the web it thus makes. It is pale 

 green, the dorsal line whiter-green, the sub-dorsal lines a little 

 darker ; the head pale brown ; the spots black, very neat and 

 distinct. 



92. A Gelechia ? larva, collected near Ratisbon by Herr 

 Hofmann, August 25th, inside the pods ofCi/tisus nigricanSj 

 where it feeds on the seeds. 



93. A Parasia 1 larva. " Yesterday we found in the 

 locality where our Cosmopteryx occurs some larvae in the 

 receptacles and seed-heads of Chrysanthemum Curymhosum. 

 They are probably a Gelechia or Parana, and come near 

 to those which we found last year on Anthemis Tinctoria'* 

 (F. H., 29, 3, 61). 



These larvse burrow through the seeds, and are very similar 

 in habit to the larvte of Gelechia hifractella. 



94. Coleophora, sp. ? In the spring of 1860 Mr. M'Lach- 

 lan found, at Forest Hill, a long, slightly curved, dirty- 

 whitish case, containing a larva which was feeding on Cen- 

 taurea nigra. This came to an untimely end, and Mr. 

 M*Lachlan has never been able to find another (Int. x. 

 p. 72). 



95. A larva in the seeds of Gentiana acaulis. " I suspect 

 that a Tinea larva eats out the seeds of the Gentiana acaulis; 

 but I found only " frass," the larvse being all gone. This 



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