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subsequently resident in that city, and now living near 

 Warrington. He carried it alive to the late Mr. T. C. Hey- 

 shani, of Carlisle, who some time afier forwarded it to Mr. 

 Curtis, who described and figured it in his work on ' British 

 Entomology.' The other, and next in order of dale, was the 

 capture by Mr. Rothwell, near Skinburness on the Solway, in 

 August, 1834, as mentioned by Mr. Heysham in the memo- 

 randum sent along with his specimen to Mr. Curtis. With 

 respect to the food of the larvae I have reason to believe that 

 Artemisia campeslris, usually assigned as the food-plant of 

 this species, does not grow in the county. There is, however, 

 little doubt they would feed on other plants of the genus. 

 A. vulgaris is found in many parts of the district, and 

 A. maritima occurs rather sparingly along the coast; but 

 neither could be described as plentiful. It is most probable 

 the plant at which Mr. Rothwell made his capture was the 

 ragwort {Senecio Jacobcea), which in some districts of the 

 county is called "muggert" or "mugwort." It is very 

 abundant near the coast, and its large heads of golden yellow 

 flowers prove very attractive to many insects, and are visited, 

 especially at night, by large numbers both of Noctnce and 

 Geometrce. — J. W. Harris; Derwent Bank, Broughton, ym 

 Carlisle. 



Ephestia elutella, a Destructive Insect. — During the 

 autumn of last year (1876) a large quantity of chicory was 

 stored in a warehouse in this city : the room was filled to 

 within a foot of the ceiling. This was not examined until 

 about two months ago, when, to the amazement of the owner, 

 the entire ceiling and walls were covered with a tine web-like 

 material, in texture not uidike very thin and fine kid-leather. 

 The top of the chicory was also covered with webs or galle- 

 ries, in which were feeding thousands of lepidopterous larvae. 

 A portion of the web was removed from the ceiling in one piece, 

 not less in size than ten feet long by five wide. This was 

 exhibited at our Naturalists' Field Club meeting as a great 

 curiosity. At the time of exhibition I gave my opinion that 

 these larvae were most probably those of Epltestia elu/ella, 

 from the fact that I had some larvae of that species in a tin 

 box feeding on currants, and also some in a wooden box 

 feeding on currants and aniseseed mixed. Above the food in 

 both boxes was a web of similar texture to the one exhibited- 



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