60 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
OccURRENCE OF MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 
oF PiumsrEAp.—I went down to Plumstead early in October to 
search for the larva of Coleophora fusco-cuprella, three of which I 
bred in June last from larve collected there the previous autumn, on 
hazel. In one sheltered spot I found twenty-three larve of this 
species, but they appeared to be very local, my captures being 
made in the space of about a dozen yards, and although I 
searched the neighbourhood for some distance I was unable to 
detect any trace of it in any other place. Nepticula micro- 
theriella was widely distributed, and although rather late for the 
larvee, many of the mines being empty, I found above a score, with 
a few of another species. Ornia avellanella and Lithocolletis 
corylella were in the greatest profusion on the same bushes. The 
mines of L. acerifoliella were also abundant in maple leaves; and 
a fortnight earlier, between united leaves, the larve of Gelechia 
scriptella were not uncommon. Thecla betule occurred sparingly in 
birch leaves, and Lithocolletis ulmifoliella commonly. ‘The brown 
mines in dogwood of the larvee of Antispila Treitschkiella were not 
so frequent as usual, but I secured sufficient to breed a fair 
series. Coleophora albitarsella were in numbers on the ground 
ivy and C. gryphipennella on the dog-rose, but as these do 
not become full fed till the spring is fairly advanced I left them 
for a more favourable opportunity. The bladder-like appearance 
of the leaves of Artemesia vulgaris betrayed the presence of the 
larve of Gracilaria omissella, while the roots supplied me with the 
larva of Ephippiphora feeneana and Dicrorampha simpliciana.— 
W. Macuin ; 22, Argyle Road, Carlton Square, E., Jan. 4, 1879. 
TINEINA BRED IN 1878.—The following notes from my diary 
may be of use to beginners: Psyche calvella: a few specimens ; 
larva taken in May on oak and buckthorn, at Highgate; according 
to my experience, it 1s useless to take any but full-grown cases. 
Lamprona rubiella, from raspberry, and Incurvaria capitella, 
from currant-shoots: larva inside, feeding on the pith; from a 
garden at Hornsey; bred a long series of each. Scythopia 
crategella: freely bred from larvee in a web on whitethorn ; from 
Greenhithe. Depressaria costosella and Gelechia mulinella: in 
abundance; from larve in shoots of furze and Genista anglica ; 
from Wanstead. Parasias lappella: from seed-heads of Arctium 
lappa collected in April; they emerged in July in scores; they 
change to pup in the seed-head; these I got in the Warren, 
