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a young laburnum-tree in our garden. Each laiva did not, 

 in many cases, occupy a web to itself, but sometimes a 

 dozen or more would be on the same, having the appearance 

 of beads on a thread at unequal distances, no two so close as 

 to touch each other. In this instance the web was always 

 connected with the ground underneath. When one larva 

 only occupied a web, it floated gently to and fro on the 

 scarcely perceptible current of air beneath the tree ; and 

 there being thousands of these minute white atoms, and 

 thousands of webs glancing in the sunshine, it formed a 

 curious spectacle. On examining the leaves above I found 

 they were extensively mined. I opened several, but could 

 not detect any signs of life in them. I should be obliged if 

 any correspondent could tell me the name of the larvge, or if 

 this, to me, peculiarity has been noted elsewhere. — F. Wil- 

 kiihsoii ; High Street^ Market Harboruugh. 



Chrysoclisla Linueella in September. — On Sunday, the 

 8th of September, at 1*2.30, I was rather surprised to see 

 some twenty or thirty specimens of this little gem flying in 

 the sunshine, about the trunk of a lime-tree that has long 

 been a nursery of the species : they reminded me of Adela 

 viridella in the mode of flight, but it was neither so syste- 

 matic nor so like a choral dance as the gambols of the 

 Adela : these insects were out on Midsummer-day in pro- 

 fusion, but during the intervening months I had not seen a 

 specimen. Is not the date unnsual ? 1 am willing to receive 

 any mild rebukes for observing this sight on a Sunday, but 

 please let them be " private," not for publication. — Edicard 

 Newman. 



The Genera of Hubner''s ' Verzeichniss.'' — I entirely agree 

 with the opinion expressed by Mr. Kirby (Entom. iii. 292) 

 upon the so-called genera of Hiibner. The characters given 

 are generally so vague as to be worthless, and the most dis- 

 cordant species are often placed in the same coitus, while 

 those which are closely allied are widely separated; and, in 

 one instance at least, a variety having red spots, instead of 

 white as in the type, is placed in a separate coitus. — Henry 

 Doubleday ; Epping, September 14, 1867. 



Larva of Tipula oleracea destructive to Oats. — The larvae 

 of the enclosed insect have done much damage to the crops 

 of oats in this neighbourhood during the spring months. I 



