OU APRIL. 



marked with large white blotches; if we turn over the 

 leaves thus marked we shall see upon some of them a 

 long black case containing a larva ; this is the larva of 

 Coleophora Alcyonipennella. Now let us examine 

 that pretty plant with yellow papilionaceous blossoms ; 

 this is the bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) ; if 

 we search the leaves we shall see that many of them 

 are wholly white, and some have white blotches on 

 them ; these are caused by the larva of Coleophora 

 discordella, and on turning over the white or blotched 

 leaves we shall find him in his cornucopia-shaped case. 

 I took this larva by hundreds in the vicinity of Dublin, 

 in company with that of C. Alcyonipennella, the latter 

 not nearly so abundant. 



On old palings and trunks of trees we shall probably 

 find the pupae of Coleophora paripennella ; while in 

 wet marshy places the larva of Col. ccsspititiella occurs 

 upon the heads of rushes ; while in the leaves of the 

 reed meadow-grass (Poa aguatica), making very long 

 narrow mines, the larvae of Elachista Poce may be 

 found ; and in the leaves of the rough-stalked meadow 

 grass (Poa trivialis) we may see the larva of Ela- 

 chista nigrella in its mined abode. 



If, in barren sandy places, we examine the leaves of 

 the "bugloss" (Echium vulgare), we may find the 

 larvae of Coleophora Onosmella ; and on the " black 

 fetid horehound" (Ballota nigra) 9 and the hedge 

 wound- wort (Stachys sylvatica), the larvae of Col. 

 lineolea occur ; while, in the roots of the latter plant, 

 we shall, perhaps, find the larvae of Orthotcenia anti- 

 quana. 



On the leaves of the wild rose we shall find the larvae 



