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upper side, and another at the top of the head. It has just 
occurred to me that this larva might perhaps be the child of 
S. populi and S. ocellatus ; but I should imagine it very improbable 
that an alliance between the two species would take place in a 
state of nature. Since writing the above I have seen the 
description and figure of a larva very similar to mine in 
Mr. Wilson’s ‘ Larve of British Lepidoptera.’.—W. W. Fiemync ; 
18, Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, September 16, 1880. 
ELACHISTA CERUSSELLA.—JIn the early part of August I 
collected a quantity of the larve of this species, which make 
conspicuous blotches in the leaves of the reed. There are some- 
times two, and occasionally three, ina leaf. The egg is deposited 
near the tip of the leaf, and the larve mine downwards. Out of 
sixty-one larvee collected only two escaped the devouring ravages 
of the Ichneumons; and this is no exception to the rule, having 
on many previous occasions collected an equal number with a 
similar result. — Wint1am Macuin; 22, Argyle Road, Carlton 
Square, E., Sept. 10, 1880. 
Curious HABIT OF LARVZ OF THE GENUS BoARmriA.— On 
June I4th last I received from Mr. G. F. Mathew a larva of 
Boarmia repandata, as figured ; and I cannot do better than quote 
a portion of his letter:—‘‘I found this larva seated on a twig 
brooding over the batch of ichneumon cocoons; whether he will 
move during his journey to you I cannot say, but I carried him 
many miles in my pocket the day before yesterday and he never 
budged.” When it arrived it was still in the same position, and 
remained so until I removed it, for preserving, four days after- 
wards. The imagos, about seventy in number, appeared on 
June 26th. The cocoons beneath the larva are shown as they 
appeared after the escape of the fly. On August 19th, at 
3.30 p.m., while searching for larvee at Stoke, I saw on a privet 
bush a moving mass of small larvee emerging from a larva of 
Boarmia rhomboidaria, I yvemoved the twig, carried it carefully 
