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to no known species. In the woods at Grange there were 

 plenty of larvae of Nepticula arcuoselln feeding in wild 

 strawberry, and of A'^. splendidissimella in bramble (a more 

 slender and tortnous mine than N. aurella) ; also N. septem- 

 brella, in its most intricate and almost blolcli-like mine, was 

 found in leaves of St. Jobn's-wort. Thus ended a most 

 pleasant trip of three days, which we hope many times to 

 repeat next year.— J. H. Threlfall; Preston, November 

 17, 1876. 



Note on Orthot.enia antiquana. — About the end of 

 April, 1876, when digging in the garden, I noticed the roots 

 of Stachys palustris very much swollen. Breaking one or 

 two across, I found they were mined by a small white larva; 

 I kept several of them in a tin box, where they remained 

 until they were full fed: this was about the end of May. Then 

 they came up to the lid of the box, where one of them spun 

 a whitish web, but not finding it to their taste they all went 

 down again among the roots, some spinning among the roots, 

 others sealing up the end of the mine in the roots with silk. 

 The perfect insects came out in June. I fancy the moth will 

 lay its eggs in June or July, and the young caterpillar will 

 mine down the stem into the roots, wounding it and causing 

 a partial thickening, in the same way as Pierophorus micro- 

 dactylus wounds the stem of liemp agrimony ; it must feed 

 slowly during the winter months, as it is late in spring before 

 they are fed up. Merrin gives S. arvensis as its food-plant, 

 but »S'. arvensis is an annual, and is a seed all the time the 

 larva of O. aniiquana is feeding. — W. Shaw; Eyemouth 

 Mill, Ay ton, Berwickshire, December, 1876. 



Notes on somk of the Genus Dicrorampha. — Last 

 Easter, when at Wiiherslack, I collected a good number of 

 the young shoots of the ox-eye daisy {CJirysauiliemimt), then 

 about three inches long; I picked those only that were 

 twisted, feeling sure that the larva was lower down in the 

 root. 1 have known for years, and have bred nearly all of 

 this genus before, that there are certainly three species from 

 ox-eye,\'\z.,D.plui?ib(igana) D.acumiiiatann, and D.consor- 

 iana. The habits of the two former species are similar, and 

 liave a continuity of broods. 1 have bred D. aciiminalaua 

 from the middle of May until the end of August, all appearing 

 from larva collected from the beginning of April until the 



