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I believe Coleophora ornatipennella lias a somewhat 

 similar habit ; at any rate I have received from Herr Anton 

 Schmid of Frankfort a case, as the case of the young larva 

 of that species, which is evidently the calyx of a labiate 

 plant. 



Stathmopoda pedella, L. This insect has at last been bred ! 

 On the 2nd of August last I received a letter (dated July 

 30th) from Herr Hofmann of Ratisbon, with the gratifying 

 intelligence that the larvae collected the previous autumn in 

 the berries of the alder had truly pioduced Stathmopoda 

 pedella and in plenty (zwar in Mehrzahl) ! ! 



This larva, which at the time I scarcely expected would 

 produce Pedella^ and indeed I found it extremely difficult to 

 extract from the alder-berry without squashing it in the 

 attempt, I have thus described, September 28th, 1866. 



Length 2J lines; head brown; second segment dark 

 brown ; body pale brown, with a faint reddish tinge, and 

 with a very faint appearance of indistinct paler spots. 



A week previously I had make a description, as under, 

 from a larva which had died in the process of extraction. 



Length 3^ lines; pale grey, apparently with a darker 

 band across the middle of each segment ; head brown ; 

 second segment with a brown plate hardly divided in the 

 centre. 



Concerning the appearance of the berry I have the fol- 

 lowing note :—" Found the bases of the seeds eaten, and 

 some of the intervening husk, and much * frass' towards the 

 core of the fruit. Eventually a squashed larva was elimi- 

 nated. Q. E. D. 21/9/66." 



Batrachedra prcBangusta, Haworth. On the 19th of June 

 I received from that indefatigable observer Mr. Healy a 



