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(liately (in captivity generally on the upper side of a St/m- 

 ])hytum leaf) a rather firm boat-shaped cocoon ; at first 

 whitish, but afterwards brown." 



It is now a nice question — have we both species in Eng- 

 land? or, if only one, which ? 



Directly I heard of the appearance of an Impetialella-Vike 

 species from the Symphytum larvae, it occurred to me that 

 this would be the species taken in the Cambridge Fens, and 

 I perceive that the same idea has occurred to Dr. Schleich. 

 The specimen captured near Worcester by the Rev. E. 

 Horton, May 30th, 1860, is probably Hofmanniella — my 

 reason for thinking so is that in the original description in 

 the Insecta Britannica, p. 201, I have *^ head yellowish," 

 and w^hen I saw Mr. Horton's specimen I made a correction 

 in my own copy to ** head white ;'^ now the white head is one 

 of the chai'acters of Hofmanniella. 



I annex copies of Dr. Schleich's diagnoses side by side : — 



Gracilaria Hofmanniella. 

 Capite, fronte palpisque niveis ; 



alis ant. aureis, fascia baseos ab- 

 breviata, strigis tribus costa?, ina- 

 culis tribus dorsi w\veo-argenteis 

 iiigro-marginatis, ciliis apicis con- 

 cavo-truncatis albis, strigula nigra 

 inferius notatis, nigroque termi- 

 natis. 



Gracilaria imperialella. 



Occtpite fusco, fronte uivea, 

 palpis $ albis, $ fuscis ; 

 alis ant. aureis, fascia baseos ab- 

 breviata, strigis tribus costae, radice 

 maculisque tribus dorsi niveis ni- 

 gro-marginatis, ciliis apicis rotun- 

 datis albis, striga nigra dissectis, 

 nigroque terminatis. 



The time and habit of the larvae may be thus stated : — 



Larva on Orohus niger in Jult/. I Larva on Symphytum officinale in 



Auiiust. 



Coleophora lixelluj Zeller. For a very interesting obser- 

 vation on the habit of this larva I am indebted to Herr von 



