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marked with large white blotches ; if we turn over the 

 leaves thus marked we shall see upon some of them a 

 long black case containing a larva ; this is the larva of 

 Coleophora Alcyonipennella. Now let us examine 

 that pretty plant with yellow papilionaceous blossoms ; 

 this is the bird's-foot trefoil {Lotus corniculatus) ; if 

 we search the leaves we shall see that many of them 

 are wholly white, and some have white blotches on 

 them ; these are caused by the larva of Coleophora 

 discordella, and on turning over the white or blotched 

 leaves we shall find him in his cornucopia-shaped case. 

 I took this larva by hundreds in the vicinity of Dublin, 

 in company with that of C. Alcyonipennella , the latter 

 not nearly so abundant. 



On old palings and trunks of trees we shall probably 

 find the pupae of Coleophora paripennella ; while in 

 wet marshy places the larva of Col. ccespititiella occurs 

 upon the heads of rushes ; while in the leaves of the 

 reed meadow-grass (Poa aquatica), making very long 

 narrow mines, the larvae of Elachista Poce may be 

 found ; and in the leaves of the rough-stalked meadow 

 grass {Poa trivialis) we may see the larva of Ela- 

 chista nigrella in its mined abode. 



If, in barren sandy places, we examine the leaves of 

 the "bugloss" {Echium vulgare), we may find the 

 larvae of Coleophora Onosmella ; and on the " black 

 fetid horehound" {Ballota ?iigra), and the hedge 

 wound- wort (Stachys sylcatica), the larvae of Col. 

 lineolea occur ; while, in the roots of the latter plant, 

 we shall, perhaps, find the larvae of O rthotcenia anti- 

 quana. 



On the leaves of the wild rose we shall find the larvae 



