100 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



that period have captured all the Taniocampa instahilis I 

 have seen, and have placed them all in my cabinet: the total 

 number is three. — G. C. Bignell ; Plymouth. 



CoLEOPHORiD^ REARED IN 1876. — Coleophora juncico- 

 lella^ in its little brown case, is most easily procured by 

 beating heather into an umbrella in spring, placing the 

 debris in a bag until one gets home ; then into hat-boxes, 

 with gauze over. The larvae will soon be detected crawling 

 up for light and air. 



C. pyrrhulipennella in the same way ; but this is rather 

 local, and can only be taken in quantity by a fortunate 

 chance. 



C. laricella : in the larch plantations, at Witherslack, I 

 have seen every bud bleached by the ravages of the larvae of 

 this little moth ; in turn they were being destroyed by large 

 red ants, which were climbing about the branches until they 

 found their prey, when they dropped headlong with it in 

 safety to the ground. 



C. alhitarsella is rather common on the ledges of rocks on 

 Whitbarrow, on wild marjoram, but will not feed on the 

 marjorams grown in gardens, as I found to my cost when I 

 bred them. 



C . fuscocuprella has been taken this autumn in profusion 

 in larval state on the nut bushes in Grange. It prefers a 

 south or western aspect, and feeds principally on the little 

 leaves at the termination of a bough. Like all other 

 ColeophoridcB it feeds underneath the leaf, and makes three or 

 four brown spots, which at once discover its presence. The 

 best time for collecting this larva is September and beginning 

 of October. 



There is on the peat at Witherslack a Coleophora, with its 

 case similar to C. viminetella, feeding on Myrica Gale, but 

 which will also feed on sallow. It has never been bred 

 separately, but it appears to be a more metallic insect than 

 C. viminetella, when caught on the wing. — J. H. Threlfall; 

 4, East Cliff', Preston, December, 1876. 



Larva of Argyresthia Andereggiella. — I have been in 

 the habit of taking this beautiful little moth for twenty years 

 amongst crab- or wild-apple trees [Pyrtis Mains), but had 

 utterly failed to find the larva, until by accident 1 found it at 

 Windermere. Being tired one day in June I sat down out of the 



