2 OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 



of the German female. In this country Pubicornis has 

 always been of extreme rarity, but Herr Eppelsheim has 

 met with several specimens of his insect, and hopes shortly to 

 discover the habit of the larva. In May this year he met 

 with about thirty specimens of tlie insect amongst Hosa 

 spinosissima. 



Xysmatodoma melanella, Haw, The notion has been 

 started by Mr. G. Harding, jun., of Stapleton, near Bristol 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. p. 91), that the female of this species 

 is diuiorphic, occurring both winged and apterous, and that 

 in the latter form it had been referred to the genus Solenobia, 

 under the specific name oi Pomonce, Mr. Harding will, no 

 doubt, do his best next season to establish the correctness of 

 this new idea. 



* Tinea vinculella, H.-S. Having met with the larva of 

 this species last winter on a wall at Floience, and on the 

 trunks of trees at Naples, I am strongly of opinion that it 

 may be expected to occur here. The only previous locality 

 where I hud seen it was on a rock face at Konigstein, near 

 Frankfort, where its habitat was pointed out to me by the 

 late Senator von Heyden. As its geographical range is not 

 restricted, I see no reason why we should not find it here. 

 The case can be instantly recognised, for, like a tortoise- 

 shell, it is flat beneath and arched above, and the upper side 

 projects at each end considerably beyond the lower part, so 

 that the larva can browse on the green lichen on a wall-face 

 and yet have its head protected. 



Micropteryx. It is strange that we are still as much in 

 the dark as ever respecting the larvae of the ubiquitous 

 Calthella, and the generally common Aruncella and Seppella 

 and more local Mansuetella, 



Nemophora Cartei^i^ Stt. The annihilation of the specific 

 existence o/ this insect cannot be made too widelv known. 



