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rare Gracilaria falconipennclla ; while among Ange- 

 lica sylvestris the delicate Depressaria ciUella may be 

 found. 



In houses those domestic pests Tinea fuscipunctella, 

 pellionella and biselliella occur, together with the pretty 

 Endroxis fenestrella. 



But what is that mass of web on that hawthorn busli 

 inhabited by ? Surely not by spiders ? Go and see ! touch 

 it ! Hilloa, why what are those curious active creatures 

 the larvae of? They are the larvae of Swamm,erdamia 

 Pyrella; they never seem comfortable unless enve- 

 loped in a mass of web, in which they make a kind of 

 tubular galleries, in the centre of which, on sunny days, 

 they may be seen lying at full length — but touch the 

 web, or approach a finger towards it, and hey ! presto ! 

 off they are, either backwards or forwards, to the shelter 

 of a neighbouring leaf. 



In the leaves of Convoholus arvensis we may find 

 the curious and anomalous larvae of Bedeilia somnu- 

 lentella; while, mining in the leaves of the wild hop, 

 the larvae of the small, but splendid, Cosmopteryx 

 Drurella may be noticed. 



If we examine the leaves of the " St. John's Wort" 

 (Hypericum perforatum), we shall see many of them 

 mined in an extremely circuitous manner, being nearly 

 covered with a black mine ; this is the work of the 

 larvae of Nepticula Septembrella (it occurs at West 

 Wickham and at Headley Lane) ; while in cones on 

 the leaves the larva of Gracilaria auroguttella occurs. 



In cases among fallen leaves we may, by diligent 

 search, find the larvae of Incurvaria mmcaleUa and 

 pectinea ; while in their curious cases, feeding under 



