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  Specimens 
  illustrating 
  the 
  transfonnalions 
  of 
  various 
  species 
  of 
  Tinea, 
  Lithocolleles, 
  

   Coleophora, 
  Elacliista 
  and 
  other 
  Micro-Lepicloptera, 
  were 
  exhibited 
  to 
  us 
  by 
  Messrs. 
  

   Douglas, 
  F. 
  Grant, 
  S. 
  Stevens, 
  Wilkinson, 
  F. 
  Smith, 
  Waring 
  and 
  others, 
  ' 
  Proceed- 
  

   ings,' 
  July, 
  August, 
  September, 
  October, 
  1852. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  has 
  recorded 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  the 
  larvae 
  of 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Ephestia, 
  which 
  

   feed 
  upon 
  dried 
  Turkey 
  figs, 
  (Eph. 
  ficella, 
  Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  November, 
  1851). 
  The 
  

   same 
  gentleman 
  has 
  also 
  communicated 
  the 
  curious 
  circumstance 
  that 
  the 
  larvce 
  of 
  

   several 
  sjiecies 
  of 
  Gelechia 
  feed 
  in 
  different 
  manners 
  upon 
  plants, 
  those 
  of 
  one 
  species, 
  

   G. 
  costella, 
  indifferently 
  mining 
  the 
  leaves, 
  feeding 
  between 
  leaves 
  drawn 
  together, 
  

   eating 
  the 
  seeds, 
  or 
  boring 
  into 
  the 
  stems 
  of 
  Solanum 
  Dulcamara, 
  (Ibid). 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  also 
  exhibited 
  specimens 
  of 
  Lithocolletes 
  Carpinicolella, 
  reared 
  in 
  

   the 
  month 
  of 
  January, 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  heat, 
  from 
  hornbeam 
  leaves 
  gathered 
  in 
  October 
  

   and 
  November, 
  (Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Feb. 
  1852). 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Wilkinson 
  exhibited 
  some 
  larva-cases 
  of 
  a 
  Talaeporia 
  found 
  in 
  July, 
  from 
  

   which 
  females 
  had 
  been 
  produced 
  which 
  had 
  laid 
  fertile 
  male 
  eggs 
  without 
  male 
  inter- 
  

   course, 
  (Trans. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Proc. 
  Nov. 
  1851). 
  

  

  The 
  ravages 
  of 
  the 
  larvae 
  of 
  Gracillaria 
  Vau-flava 
  upon 
  wine-corks, 
  and 
  the 
  best 
  

   mode 
  of 
  preventing 
  their 
  attacks, 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  several 
  communications 
  to 
  

   the 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  of 
  London, 
  'Proceedings,' 
  November, 
  1851, 
  April, 
  1852, 
  June, 
  1852. 
  

   Mr. 
  Wilkinson 
  has, 
  however, 
  reared 
  this 
  insect 
  from 
  cases 
  formed 
  of 
  the 
  black 
  fungus 
  

   common 
  in 
  old 
  wine-cellars, 
  on 
  which 
  he 
  believed 
  the 
  larvge 
  fed, 
  as 
  they 
  had 
  not 
  

   touched 
  the 
  corks 
  of 
  the 
  wine-bottles 
  in 
  the 
  cellar, 
  (Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  July, 
  1852). 
  

  

  Mr. 
  F. 
  Smith 
  has 
  also 
  exhibited 
  to 
  us 
  specimens 
  of 
  CEcophora 
  lacteella, 
  reared 
  

   from 
  wine-corks 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Felkiu, 
  and 
  also 
  by 
  himself 
  from 
  the 
  waxen 
  materials 
  of 
  the 
  

   nest 
  of 
  Bombus 
  Raiellus, 
  ('Proceedings,' 
  August, 
  1852). 
  

  

  A 
  paper 
  by 
  M. 
  Guerin 
  Meneville 
  on 
  the 
  remedies 
  to 
  be 
  adopted 
  on 
  a 
  large 
  scale 
  

   to 
  arrest 
  the 
  ravages 
  committed 
  on 
  wheat 
  by 
  the 
  Alucita 
  (Butalis 
  cerealella), 
  was 
  read 
  

   at 
  the 
  Academic 
  des 
  Sciences 
  on 
  the 
  1st 
  of 
  December, 
  1851. 
  

  

  A 
  note 
  upon 
  the 
  ravages 
  of 
  the 
  Alucita 
  which 
  infests 
  wheat, 
  has 
  been 
  communi- 
  

   cated 
  by 
  M. 
  Amyot 
  to 
  the 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  of 
  France 
  (Aunales, 
  1852, 
  vi.) 
  

  

  A 
  note 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Lowe 
  on 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  Plutella 
  porrectella, 
  which 
  destroys 
  the 
  tops 
  

   of 
  the 
  shoots 
  of 
  the 
  double 
  white 
  rocket, 
  and 
  of 
  which 
  there 
  are 
  three 
  broods 
  in 
  a 
  

   year, 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Zoologist' 
  for 
  April, 
  1852. 
  

  

  A 
  synopsis 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Staintou's 
  monograjih 
  ou 
  Lilhocolletis, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  Stettin 
  

   Ent. 
  Zeit. 
  for 
  March, 
  1852. 
  

  

  An 
  article 
  by 
  Nicelli 
  on 
  LithocoUetis 
  Stettioeusis, 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  Ent. 
  Zeit. 
  Stettin, 
  

   July, 
  1852. 
  

  

  Pterophorid^, 
  — 
  A 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  PterophoridEe 
  by 
  Zeller, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  6th 
  

   vol. 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Linnjea 
  Entomologica 
  ;' 
  and 
  a 
  translation 
  of 
  such 
  parts 
  thereof 
  as 
  relate 
  

   to 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  the 
  larvte 
  of 
  the 
  different 
  species, 
  is 
  given 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Douglas, 
  Proc. 
  Ent. 
  

   Soc. 
  April, 
  1852. 
  

  

  DiPTERA. 
  

  

  Zetterstedt's 
  classical 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  Diptcra 
  of 
  Scandinavia, 
  has 
  been 
  completed 
  in 
  

   eleven 
  volumes 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  year. 
  

  

  