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hitherto received no satisfactory reply ; how long it is 

 to remain in statu quo is uncertain, but still I think 

 that if some of our collectors, who take the insect year 

 after year, would notice its habits a little more closely 

 than they have hitherto done, we should not be much 

 longer in the dark respecting it. 



It occurs at Hainault Forest, Coombe Wood, Surrey, 

 Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire, Birch Wood, 

 Leatherhead Common and Fetcham Down, and in the 

 neighbourhood of Belfast, in Ireland. 



Among beech trees we shall find Peronea favilla- 

 ceana, on the underside of the leaves of which, in a 

 slight web, the larva feeds ; while on their trunks we 

 shall probably find Lithocolletis Faginella and Nep- 

 ticula Tityrella. 



In the leaves of Convolvolas arwnsis we shall find 

 the larvae of Bedellia somnulentella, while on various 

 umbelliferae, such as ToriUs, Sison amomum, Hera- 

 cleum sphondylium, &c, the sticky-looking larvae of 

 Chauliodus Cheer ■ophyllellus may be found ; and in 

 cones, on the under-side of the leaves of the " biting 

 Persicaria," or " Water-pepper" (Polygonum hydro- 

 pipe?'), we may find the larvae of Gracilaria phasiani- 

 pennella. 



By sweeping we may perhaps obtain the very pretty 

 little Goniodoma auroguttella (in the Isle of Wight). 

 " The larva (figured in Fischer) feeds in an angulated 

 case on the seeds of Atriplex (its case resembling in 

 form and colour the rhomboidal perigone of the fruit) ; 

 in autumn, when the larva is full fed, it attaches its 

 case to the lower part of the stem of the foot plant, 

 and, boring into the interior, spins a white silken cocoon 



