4 OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 



of my own opinions, he thought better of it, and spared 

 his pen. 



Ccesiella, according to German Entomologists, has a 

 white head, and the green larva feeds on birch. In England 

 the green birch-feeding larva produces Griseocapitella. 



Our Ccesiella feeds on hawthorn, probably also on sloe ; 

 but I have never yet found the larva on sloe here. 



In Germany they breed another species from hawthorn, 

 with a white head and grey thorax ; this they name Oxya- 

 canthella; if we have Oxyacanthella in England, I fancy we 

 repute it the female of our hawthorn-feeding Ccesiella, 



Dr. F. Buchanan White, when at Strathglass, Inverness- 

 shire, met with a Sivammerdamia larva on Betula nana^ 

 which appeared to me very different from the larva of 

 S. griseocapitella. 



I hope Entomologists in the north will keep a sharp look 

 out on Empetrum nigrum (the crowberry) for the larva of 

 Swammerdamia conspersella. (See Ent. Annual, 1868, 

 p. 155.) 



* HyponomeiUa rorelluSy Hiib. When at Munich in 

 June, 1868, Heir Hartmann gave me a fine series of this 

 willow-feeding species. Surely it must occur somewhere in 

 England; a gregarious Hyponomeuta larva on Salix alba. 

 Can any one find it ? 



Chalybe pyraustay Pallas. Last spring Baron von 

 Nolcken sent me three pupae of this insect, from which to 

 rear the imago in order that I might thus obtain eggs, and 

 afterwards larvos. The pupae arrived in excellent condition; 

 the first imago appeared April 12, and the other two in the 

 course of the following week. The food-plant being Thalic- 

 trum aquilegifoli^im, I applied to Mr. Fryer of Chatteris 

 for a plant oi Thalictrum flavum^ thinking the larvae would 

 probably eat that plant; Mr. Fryer however was not content 



