162 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Mr. Sang had hoped to have met with the larva again last 

 autumn, but was unsuccessful. 



From the two specimens bred I have made the following 

 brief description : — 



Palpi white, with a grey spot at the end of the second 

 joint, and another in the middle of the terminal joint. Head 

 grey, mixed with white. Anterior wings rather dark grey, 

 between the colours of Betulce and Scoticella, but the costal 

 markings more oblique than in the former species. The 

 anterior wings are decidedly narrower than in either of 

 those species, and the apex of the wing has a more pointed 

 appearance than in any Ornix I know. There are two entire 

 dark lines in the hinder marginal cilia. 



CoLEOPHORA OBTUSELLA, Moncrcaff. 



At the end of last May, Mr. Moncreaff, of Portsmouth, 

 sent me some Coleophora larvae feeding on the seeds of 

 Juncus maritimiis in a salt marsh. The case being very 

 different from that of the ordinary rush-feeding Ccespiti- 

 tiella at once attracted my attention, and at my request Mr. 

 Moncreaff collected a considerable quantity of these larvce, 

 from which I reared several dozens of the perfect insect. 

 It is allied to Murinipennella and Ccespititiella, but is 

 smaller than the latter, the average exp. al. being only 5 1. ; 

 only occasionally do we find individual specimens attaining 

 5^ 1. Anterior wings much less acuminate than in Miirini- 

 pennella and CcBspititiella, and hence appearing broader ; 

 rather glossy, pale brownish, more or less distinctly streaked 

 with whitish and with faint indications of a few scattered 

 dark scales. Antennas white, annulated with dark fuscous. 



The best character of the species is, however, that fur- 

 nished by the case of the larva, which, though feeding on a 

 Juncus, has a case more like that of the Luzula-?QQ(\.m^ 



