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shall see that it is a larva-case ornamented in this cu- 

 rious manner ; this is the larva of Diplodoma margi- 

 nepunctella, but what its food is at present is unknown. 

 I have taken the larva some years back on Lord 

 Mansfield's palings at Hampstead, but never succeeded 

 in rearing the insect. In Mr. Stainton's " Observa- 

 tions on British Tineina" (Entomologist's Annual, 

 1856, p. 49), it is thus noticed : " Two of the curiously 

 clothed larvae of this insect have been sent me, one by 

 Mr. Parfitt, of Exeter, in August, the other by Mr. 

 Scott in September. Neither larva was seen to eat, so 

 that the food still remains a mystery/' 



In woods among brushwood we shall obtain the 

 pretty Phoesyle miaria, and in chalky localities- the 

 handsome Phoesyle Psittacaria may be found; now 

 also appear Harpalyce achatinaria and Geometra 

 angularia, while among the bush vetch (Vicia se- 

 ptum) we may obtain the larvae of the new and beau- 

 tiful Lithocolletis Bremiella. 



"This species w T as discovered a few years ago at 

 Zurich by Herr Bremi-Wolff, in whose honour it has 

 been named ; the larvae was detected mining the leaves 

 of several species of Vicia. On the 26th of September 

 last, I received several mines of this species from Herr 

 Schmid, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, and, profiting by 

 the information derived from the sight of these mined 

 leaves, I visited, on the 28th, a locality near Bexley, 

 where I was aware that Vicia sepium grew abundantly 

 by the edge of a wood. In half an hour Mrs. Stainton 

 and I had collected about thirty leaves containing 

 larvae or pupae, and Mr. Douglas nearly as many— a 

 striking instance of the ease with which new species 



