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full fed it casts its skin and assumes a shape much more like an 

 ordinary caterpillar, and without further feeding it at once spins 

 its cocoon. The leaves mined by this species appear as though a 

 snail had crawled over them and left a slimy track. Goeze 

 observed this as long ago as 1774. The larva in the mine may 

 easily be observed with the aid of a lens. 



Cemiostoma (Leucoptera) laburnella, Stn. 



Taken by Mr. Nicholson in Q. The larvae make blotches in 

 the leaves of laburnum. 



Bucculatrix cristatella, Zell. 



Common among yarrow in Q. 



Opostega salaciella, TV. 



Occurs in Q. Its larval habits are still unknown. The white 

 moth is peculiar in having the bases of the antennae enlarged into 

 eyecaps, which completely cover the eyes when the moth is 

 at rest. 



Trifurcula immundella, Zell. 



Not rare among Gytisus scoparius. Its habits are somewhat 



similar to those of the above mentioned Cemiostoma sparlifoliella, 



and it shares probably with that species in the destruction of the 

 broom. 



Nepticula marginicolella, Stn. 



Occurs in P. The larva mines usually close to the margin of 

 the leaf of elm, sometimes so closely that the mine follows the 

 serration of the leaf. 



N. plagicolella, Stn. 



Also occurs in P. The larva commences its mine by making a 

 fine gallery in the leaf of blackthorn or (as in the Gardens) of the 

 domestic plum. At the end of the gallery it makes a large pale 



blotch. or 



N. basalella, H.-S. 



The larva of this species mines in beech leaves. It occurs in A. 



N. trimaculella, Haw. 



w2S m ™! n t£ i ThG Dainut ? 1 moth ma ? ^ found on the bark of 

 feaves. " galleries between the cuticles of the 



N. subbimaculella, Haw. 



see^rest"!^ ^S "i °^ l ^^ and the moth » m *? often be 

 specimei from Jh? ^\ ? «■»!«* Mr. G. Nicholson sent 

 SSTZ^^^^^ *** *** -ote that the 



Narycia monilifera, Geoffr. {melanella, Haw ) 

 which T C caMestbom *& «* an ° ak " The la ™ «*■ *» a <*se 



J2l^™ TTXfi * ab ?Ut with it, and feeds on IMun ^ nth«r 



growths which occur 



feeds on lichen and other 



