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by their haunts, to frequent places where their larvae 

 might have fed upon decaying wood ; GE. Lambdella, 

 originally found swarming in a furze bush, may feed 

 in the decaying stems of the furze. If formosella 

 and Lambdella won't tempt an Entomologist out in 

 January, I don't know what will. And it should be 

 borne in mind, that probably all these species feed, like 

 Dasycera sulphur ella, throughout the winter, so that 

 from December to February, when other sport is scarce, 

 is the very time to seek for the (Ecophora larvae. 

 When the collector is weary of poking into the old 

 stumps he can agreeably diversify his occupation by 

 collecting Elachista larvae, of which he had probably 

 destroyed several by treading on them, whilst at work 

 on the (Ecophora larvae. They are to be found mining 

 the leaves of grasses, preferring such long grasses as 

 grow in the shelter of a hedge, or at the foot of a tree ; 

 he may find a goodly variety, hardly two grasses con- 

 taining the same larvae. These, again, may be found 

 throughout the winter." 



Added to this, the observations of continental Ento- 

 mologists go to establish the fact, that many more spe- 

 cies besides those enumerated are rotten- wood feeders ; 

 thus (in the " Entomologist's Annual," 1856, p. 53), 

 we read : " When at Hanover, Herr Krosmann gave, 

 me a specimen of the continental Balucella (which we 

 hold synonymous with Haworth's Palpella) ; it was 

 twice the size of our specimens but he assured me it 

 varied in size from quite small to those unusual dimen- 

 sions. This specimen he had bred from rotten wood!" 

 And again, Herr Schmid notices of (Ecophora augus- 

 tella, " the larvae of this certainly in rotten wood" 



