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Elachista Treitschhiella, which first mines the leaves, 

 and then, spinning a portion of the two cuticles together, 

 cuts out a small flat elliptical case, in which it descends 

 to the ground in the manner of the larvae of Lam- 

 pronia and Incurvaria. 



Among bilberry (Vaccinium Myrtillus), on which 

 the larvae feed, we may obtain the rare Peronea Mac- 

 cana ; while on the same plant the larvae of Coccyx 

 Vacciniana may be found in many places in plenty, and 

 in the stems of thistle ( Cirsium palustre) the larvae 

 of Ephippiphora Circiana and Ephippiphora Scutu- 

 lana may be found, Ephippiphora novana being 

 merely a variety of the $ Scutulana. " H. novana 

 is, I believe, merely a variety of the $ Scutulana" 

 (Entomologist's Annual, 1855, p. 51.) And in the 

 stems of the wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) the larvae 

 of Lozopera dilucidana may be found. 



On Wimbledon Common and at Hackney we may 

 obtain the pretty Simaethis scintillulana ; while on 

 nettles Simaethis Fabriciana occurs in plenty, toge- 

 ther with Pionea forficalis in gardens and weedy 

 lanes. 



On yew berries at Norbury Park, near Dorking, 

 the rare Dasycampa rubiginea may be obtained; while 

 in cultivated places, especially in the neighbourhood of 

 potatoe fields, the large and curious death's head hawk- 

 moth (Acherontia Atropos) occurs. This insect, like 

 many of the Sphingida, occasionally appears in large 

 or unusual numbers, when it becomes an object of 

 terror in the agricultural districts, all kinds of ill luck 

 and misfortune being prognosticated by its appearance; 

 while the curious markings on its thorax, representing 



