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specimens labelled taluldla in the late Mr. F. Bond's collection 

 appear to be F. roborkoUlU ; and one from the collection of 

 Mr. Mitford, but now in the possession of Mr. Philip Crowley, 

 is certainly Eficlinopteryx indla, worn. 



The only fully satisfactory evidence of the occurrence of 

 the present species in this country has reached me, quite 

 recently, from Mr. J. E. Fletcher, of Worcester, and, since 

 next to nothing is otherwise known here of the insect, it 

 may be well to quote his remarks : " In the spring of the 

 year 1858 I beat from an old spruce {Abies excelsa) a single 

 case-bearing larva, from which in the following summer 

 appeared a small male moth, the wings of one side of which 

 were cramped. By some misadventure the moth was 

 lost In the spring of 1877 I revisited the place-the Old 

 Hills near Worcester— and succeeded in obtaining four 

 larvsJ Two I sent to the late Mr. Stainton, who wrote, 

 July 10th that he had bred a male moth from one case, and 

 that it was in very good condition on one side, but rather 

 crippled on the other. This specimen should be m the col- 

 lection left by that gentleman. His second case and those 

 that I retained yielded nothing. The last time I sought for 

 the creature was in the spring of 1882, when I found five 

 larv«. From one of these was bred a female moth ; from 

 another a pupa fell out and died ; a specimen of a species 

 of Braconidce came from the third, and the others contained 



dried-up larvjB. 



" The Larva is stout and brown, with head and corselet 

 black ; the boughs on which they occurred bore a good crop of 

 lichen. The female moth emerges completely from its case 

 and stands thereupon with its head towards the twig and its 

 ovipositor directed outwardly and prominent. I watched the 

 creature from time to time during two or three days before 

 disturbing it, during which time it maintained the same 



posture." , ,. -I J 



With the foregoing information, Mr. Fletcher forwarded 



the fentale moth, the pupa, and a case, all of which have 



