OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 141 



Gelechia terreUa, W. V. The following notice of the larva 

 of our very old friend has appeared in the 8tli volume of the 

 Tijdschrift von Entomologie, p. 131, from the pen of that excel- 

 lent observer, P. C. T. Snellen : — " I found two specimens of 

 this still iindescribed larva at the end of March near Rotter- 

 dam ; one was on turfy ground, the other on a sandy spot, 

 where some grass came through. When I reached home I 

 placed these larvte in a confectioner's glass with some grass- 

 plants, and found on examining them, that they had spun a 

 sort of loose silken case on the ground between the grass; in 

 this case they could move very quickly either backwards or 

 forwards. They fed on the lowermost parts of the grass- 

 stems, which they gna\Yed off, and after some time each 

 formed a cocoon of silk mixed with earth, a few Dutch 

 inches deep in the ground ; in this they changed to the pupa 

 state ; the pupa is light brown. Two specimens of the imago 

 appeared on the 1st and 18th of June. 



^^ The larvae, when I found them, were a Dutch inch in 

 length; thin, cylindrical, like l\\Q\-a,Y\^ oi Eurrhypara urti- 

 cattty Hb., and of many To7'tncina ; of a dark green-grey 

 colour, rather shining, beneath somewhat paler, and clothed 

 with short hairs on black warts. On the back one saw three 

 indistinct darker lines, and on the first segments behind the 

 head an indistinct whiteness. The head was black, small ; 

 the second segment broader than the head, yellow, with two 

 black spots. When they were older the colour was paler, 

 more greyish, and when they had attained their full size they 

 were about a Dutch inch and a-half in leng-th." rJudgino; 

 from these dimensions a Dutch inch must be about the half 

 of one of ours.] 



Gelechia lucidellciy Stephens. Mr. P. C. Wormald writes 

 me that he met with this species at Ruislip Reservoir, 

 Middlesex, on the 22nd of July, and that by sweeping the 



