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probably G. inniiaciilateUa. Larva; found mining in the 

 leaves of Aster tripolium, and snpposed to be the same insect, 

 turned out to be Gelechia ocellatella ; thus giving another 

 food-plant, and even manner of feeding, to this insect. 



At Morecambe, on the cliffs, where Genista iiiictoria 

 grows, larvae of Anarsia yenistella were feeding in the 

 shoots ; but this insect appears so like the common form, 

 A. spartiella, that I am inclined to refer the difference in 

 size and colour to the more succulent properties of the food- 

 plant, just as Depressaria coslosella is more deeply marked 

 with reddish under the same conditions. The larva was not 

 coin pared with that of A. spartiella, nor indeed examined 

 with the care due to it. On the same day and at the same 

 place (June 8lh) Plutella annulatella in the larval state were 

 common in Cochlearia anylica: they emerged in the middle 

 of July. 



At the latter end of May, whilst collecting larvae of 

 ColeophorcB on the willows, at Farington, my attention was 

 directed to the twisted condition of the shoots of Lotus 

 corniculatus, on the railway bank close by. Thinking this 

 was owing to larvae of some Sciaphila I neglected to gather 

 many at the time ; but afterwards looking in the tin in which 

 they were placed I perceived a Gelechia larva belonging to 

 the Tceniolella group, but darker. At the latter end of June 

 one imago of a Gelechia, unknown to me, appeared above 

 the rubbish ; and on reference to Mr. Stainton he pronounced 

 it to be probably an European species, G. cincticulella, 

 which feeds on the Continent on Genista. I visited the 

 locality this year, but only obtained one larva, which, 

 unfortunately, died. 



Larvae of Coleophora Wilkin so nella began to feed on 

 birch, at Witherslack, about the beginning of July, and 

 continued to do so, at intervals only, until September, when 

 they hybernate full fed, and, if brought into the house early 

 in the spring, they will walk about, as if seeking for food. 

 They, however, will not feed, but change into pupae, and 

 emerge about the middle of June. This is a similar habit to 

 C. limosipennella, which with us never emerges in autumn, 

 but feeds on through the autumn, hybernates, and emerges a 

 little later in the year than C. IV ilk inso nella. It also feeds 

 on birch. 



After very patient and repeated search at length larvae of 

 Depressaria capreolella were discovered feeding on leaves of 

 Pivipinella saxi/raya, — not ou the radical leaves, however, 



