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Aplota palpella, Haw. 

 Larva, 11 mm. Cylindric, slender, lemon-yellow, brighter below than above, 

 with the dorsal region reddish, more or less dusted with blackish, and intermixed 

 with yellowish. The reddish tint best marked on segments 7—9 ; being there less 

 mixed with yellowish. Spiracular region vaguely marked with reddish, excepting, 

 however, segments 3 and 4, where the markings are distinct. Head small, globular, 

 shining black; thoracic plate also black, shining; anal plate reddish. Sluggish, living 

 under the moss which covers the trunks of old oaks. It fashions a little gallery, 

 either straight, or with several offshoots, and chooses for its situation generally 

 the cracks of the bark ; this gallery is prolonged, if necessary, in order to reach the 

 shoots of moss on which the larva feeds. Pupating in the wider end of the gallery, 

 after blocking up the two ends of the space it requires. Full-fed, iv, v. 



COLEOPHOBA UIVEICOSTELLA. 

 " Eare, and difficult to rear ; appears to prefer the plants of thyme that are 

 sheltered by shrubby growth." 



*COLEOPHORA ALBICOSTA, Haw. 

 " Larva lives until it is full-fed within the seed-pods of TJlex europceus, without 

 troubling itself to construct a case ; but this it effects in a few minutes after quitting 

 the shelter of the pod, by cutting one out of the margins of the lower lip of the 

 calyx." 



This explains the comparative rarity of the cases, and the difficulty 

 of finding them. 



Chauliodtjs insecttrellus, Stn. 

 Lafaury describes only the summer broods, the early spring brood 

 having, apparently, not been noticed. 



BUTALIS SICCELLA, Z. 



" Larva long, thin, cylindric, smoky-violet above, but less dark below, with the 

 incisions of segments 2 — 6 milky-white. This last colour well-marked, especially on 

 the sides of the larva, and continued beneath. Incisions of the following segments 

 paler than the ground colour, but not so strikingly so as in the preceding segments. 

 Under-side of segments 3—6 more smoky-black than the rest. Head small, flattened, 

 bone-colour, with the ocelli reddish-black. Thoracic plate faintly horny, much 

 larger than the head, which it half covers when the larva is at rest ; semicircular, 

 concolorous with the head, faintly divided down the centre by a slight line, paler 

 red than itself; its hind-margin clouded with blackish; the front marked 'with 

 whitish. 



" Spots brilliantly white and large for the size of the larvae ; spiracles invisible ; 



* Monsieur Lafaury has called this insect " albicostella, Dupohchel ;". but the insect figured 

 by Duponchel under that name he received from Vienna, with the MS. name, albicostella, of . 

 Fischer von Roslerstamm ; and this albicostella, of which the larva feeds on the leaves of Poten- 

 iilla cinerea at the end of April, is a totally different insect from- Ilaworth's albicosta, of which 

 the larva feeds in June and July, in the pods of Ulex. Monsieur Lafaury's observation that the 

 larva while feeding has no case, is a very interesting piece of information. — H. T. S. 



