ll'J THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



by Mr. Fletcher, of Worcester, crawling about the bark of 

 willow trees : the case was like a Coleopliora, but the feet of 

 the larva showed it to be Trichopterous, Dot Lepidopterous. 

 Encecyla [Enoicyla] pusilla, a species of which the female 

 was apterous, had for some time been known on the Conti- 

 nent to have a non-aquatic larva, and M. Snellen van Vollen- 

 hoven found the larvae in great numbers at the Hague : this 

 species had not yet been found in Britain, but Mr. Fletcher's 

 larvae were probably to be referred to it. It would be inte- 

 resting to ascertain how the larva breathed, whether or not 

 by spiracles. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir called attention to the Report, in the 

 'Journal of Horticulture' for May 21, 1868, of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society, in which it was stated that on the 19th of that 

 mouth "Mr. Berkeley exhibited specimens of the larva of 

 Coleophora hemerobiella, which attacks the leaves of the pear 

 and cherry, not, as is usually the case, by eating away the 

 whole substance, but by attaching themselves by their discoid 

 suctorial mouth, and extracting the sap from the parenchyma 

 for some distance round the point of attack ; which when 

 they have exhausted they leave, and commence an attack in 

 another part of the leaf, leaving a small hole similar to a leech 

 bite. Finally they enclose themselves in the leaf, which is 

 rolled up in the form of a tiny cigarette." Mr. Weir presumed 

 that no one of the entomologists attached to the Scientific 

 Committee could have been present at the promulgation of a 

 statement so full of error. 



Mr. Keays exhibited specimens of Psyche crassiorella from 

 Hornsey Wood. 



The Hon. T. De Grey exhibited pupa^ of Hypercallia 

 Christiernana ; the larvae were found on Polygala vulgaris, 

 between the 27th of April and the 22nd of May, near Shore- 

 ham, and one became a ))upa during the Meeting. The pupae 

 were of a beautiful briglit green colour, attached by their hind 

 extremity only to the sides of the glass cylinder in which they 

 were exhibited, and were not suspended loosely by the silken 

 attachment, but rigidly fixed in an oblique position at an 

 angle of about GO* to the side of the cylinder. 



Mr. A. G. Butler exhibited a small and pale variety of Ne- 

 muobius Luciua, and a pair of Anthocharis Cardamiues, all 



