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original describer, as Stein, who had seen Meigen's type, 

 considered it to be a small specimen of A. radicum, L, 



Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited several species of the Lepido- 

 pterous genus Goleophora and contributed the following notes 

 on them : — 



(1) G. laricella. — The cases and larvse of this species were 

 shown at the last meeting. A day or two ago several 

 imagines emei-ged, a pairing has occurred, and there are in 

 the box about a dozen ova. These are laid on the under 

 surfaces of the needles, not near the base. They are of an 

 upright type, having the micropyle at the top, have only two 

 diameters, and are vertically ribbed. 



(2) G. albitarsella. — This species generally feeds upon ground 

 ivy, but these specimens were found upon marjoram, by Mr. 

 Eustace Bankes, and will not touch ground ivy, even when 

 ir^ want of food. The cases are hairy, in fact hoary, being 

 made of the rough cuticle of the leaves of the food-plant. 

 When the larvae feed upon ground ivy the cases are smooth 

 and appear as if they were made of pure silk, blackened by a 

 deposit of some kind. The examples exhibited are from the 

 Isle of Purbeck. 



(3) G. bicolorella. — This species feeds on nut and is generally 

 local, but occurring in numbers where it is found. The cases 

 are parti-coloured, and the small very darkened winter case 

 persists as the anal portion of the mature case. The enlarge- 

 ments are made in such a way as to make the case very 

 clumsy. When more room is required, the larva fixes on the 

 edge of a leaf, and mining a considerable area, it bites through 

 the two cuticles. The portion added overhangs the tubular 

 portion very considerably with its irregular and serrated 

 margins. The specimens exhibited were obtained at Chatham. 



(4) G. lineolea. — This is a very common species and feeds 

 upon Ballota nigra, especially frequenting dusty roadsides. 

 It has a large, woolly case formed from the rough, hairy, 

 wrinkled cuticle of the food-plant. Those exhibited were 

 found near the Bromley Road, Catford. 



(5) G. viminetella. — This species makes a clumsy case from 

 the woolly leaves of the large willow i<alix caprea, and at 

 times it feeds upon other willows. It has a variegated case, 



PROC. ENT. see. LOND., IV. 1904. B 



