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tinguished therefrom in the net by having light brown pubescence on the thorax, 

 through which (under a lens) the sutures appear as dark lines. Hair of the dorsum 

 also dense and brownish. Fringe of the wing (when pointed towards the light over 

 a dark background) light brownish, like the hair of the nervures in dried specimens ; 

 the wing-margin, from certain standpoints, defined by a dark line ; when newly 

 killed, the fringes, from certain directions, appear blackish-grey; but when shifted, 

 the fringe of the alula and the tuft on the thickened portion of the costa by the fold 

 of deflection become concolorous with the pubescence of the thorax. Haliday's 

 description is good, but the mai'kings attributed to the legs are entirely dependent 

 upon illumination. Antennae 15- to 16-jointed, reaching in the g to about the 

 middle of the wing. Basal joint in the superior S appendages short and moderately 

 stout, convex externally, and flattened or subcoricave on the inner side ; apical joint 

 twice the length of the first, tapering from the base to a slender point, or claw-like, 

 acuminate and obliquely decurved. Inferior ^ appendages stout, narrowly ovoid - 

 oblong ; tenaculee moderately divergent, equal, slender, relatively long, wiry, or very 

 narrowly linear-cuneate. 



Discovered by Haliday in Ireland at Holywood and Blarney. 

 Abundant locally in miry places under trees, especially in wet coppices, 

 in billy parts of East and "West Somersetshire ; ascending to 1300 ft. 

 under Dunkery Beacon. September and October. 



{To be concluded in the next No ) 



ON THE HABITS OP LIOTHULA OMNIVOEA, Fereday. 

 BY W. W. SMITH, F. KS. 



During the last two years my boys have collected a considerable 

 number of the case-dwelling larvae of this interesting apterous moth. 

 When brought home it is their custom to tie fresh twigs of wattle 

 and willows to the end of long pieces of strong thread, and suspend 

 them from the ceiling over the sitting room table, and attach the 

 larval cases to them. The experiment has proved very interesting and 

 instructive to the boys, while it has also revealed some new and 

 hitherto unknown habits of these larvae. 



Wheii first attached to the suspended twigs the more matured 

 larvse inhabiting the larger cases occasionally remain motionless, and 

 do not commence feeding for a week or a fortnight after. When 

 they become hungry they generally feed well, but consume very little 

 food for their size. They generally feed all over the twigs, and 

 occasionally reach the thread which they ascend to the ceiling, and 

 attach their dwelling to it, or to the paper on the walls. We have had 

 several remain crawling over the ceiling or the papered walls for a 



