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75. A Coleophora larva, feeding on Artemisia maritima, 

 was found by Mr. Scott near Stockton, August 21st; the 

 case is elongate, soft, of an ochreous-grey green, thus very 

 different from the squat case of Albicans, or the shining 

 black case of Ditella. This new larva evidently fed on the 

 leaves of the Artemisia. 



76. A Coleophora larva, found by Herr Hofmann, the 

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



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

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

 pendages, 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. These cases have 

 a very impish look. 



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

 April on the seeds of the Luzula campestris. Theoretically 

 this ought to have been C. murinipennella, but the case was 

 different, being cylindrical, greyish-ochreous, with the mouth 

 turned round ; indeed the case was very similar to that of 

 C. argentula. 



78. A Coleophora ? larva, discovered by Messrs. Brock- 

 holes and Gregson, amongst grass by the side of a haystack, 

 near Birkenhead, in the beginning of October. The case is 

 short and rather stout, ochreous or brownish, with some 

 darker stripes. I could not discover that the larvae ate the 

 grass at all. Young Chilo larvae construct cases and have 

 been mistaken for Coleophora larvae ; is it not possible that 

 a Crambus larva may perform similar operations? The 

 matter deserves, and will no doubt obtain, further investiga- 

 tion. 



