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positively that their death was caused by their diet, or whether 

 they were suffering from an epidemic, bat taking the two circum- 

 stances together it seems feasible that a plethora of food, which 

 may have been palatable to them although perhaps injurious, 

 may have caused their death. I should be pleased to hear if any- 

 one has observed such an effect before. I may mention in 

 passing that I captured a beautiful specimen of Phoxopteryx 

 ujmpana. — J. A. Cooper ; August 4, 1885. 



CoLEOPHoRA viBiciGERELLA, Zell. — I liave reared one very 

 fine specimen of this insect from larvae found on Artemisia 

 7naritiina, proving that the species is not confined to A, cam- 

 pestris. The case is very similar to that of C. ditella ; black, 

 42—5 lines long, six times as long as broad, somewhat com- 

 pressed, sharply keeled on the ventral surface, towards the anal 

 extremity more compressed and bent downwards, anteriorly 

 somewhat attenuated. The position of the case slightly less 

 recumbent than that of C ditella. — Wm. Machin ; 29, Carlton 

 Road, Carlton Square, E., August 14, 1885. 



ScYTHROPiA CRAT^GELLA. — When larvse beating in Epping 

 Forest in October, 1884, I noticed a small crab-tree completely 

 enveloped in a beautiful silken web, in which was enclosed a large 

 number of minute hairy larvae. I gathered a number of the 

 withered leaves, and with the approach of the following spring 

 the larvae crawled out and fed freely on whitethorn, mining the 

 leaves, about six or seven larvae tenanting each leaf. After the 

 first moult they left the mines, and fed on the leaves in the 

 ordinary manner of a lepidopteron. When full-fed they crawled 

 into the middle of the web, suspending themselves singly, and 

 turned into curiously- shaped pupae, not unlike miniature sea- 

 horses in appearance. The larvae when full-fed were of a brown 

 colour, with broad yellow dorsal stripe ; and the perfect insect is 

 most sluggish, and difficult to induce to leave the web, and when 

 shaken out quickly returns, and that even from a distance of 

 several yards, hurrying into the web, apparently considering 

 themselves safe only when hidden within its silken folds. — 

 J. A. Cooper ; August 20, 1886. 



Notes from my Diary. — March 31st, Notodonta hicolor at 

 Orpington. June 30th, took a fine Cossus ligniperda at Chisle- 

 hurst on a tree. July 3rd, Chrysomela gosttingensis and G. 

 staphyl(jea at Chislehurst, amongst grass and nettles at the foot 



