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such early maturity was due to the abnormal conditions under whicb 

 the larvse were kept, for Mr. Yine believes that in nature they 

 hibernate in that stage, since he finds them nearly full-fed at the end 

 of April. Mr. Yine first made the acquaintance of the insect in 

 1886, when he both bred and captured specimens in the neighbourhood 

 of Brighton in July. By sweeping amongst Genista tinctoria in the 

 late afternoon and eyening in the same locality Mr, Pletcher has 

 taken the imagines at large on August 2nd and 7th, 1890, June 15th, 

 1893, August 23rd, 189S, and July 29th, 1896, and on August 2nd, 

 1890, he swept up a pair in cop. 



Mr. Yine, assuming that A. Vinella must be immaculatella, DgL, 

 has sent out a few specimens under this name, but in a paper by 

 myself, which will shortly follow this one, and will clear up the 

 mystery surrounding immaculatella, I shall be able to prore that these 

 two species are totally distinct. 



The Eectory, Corfe Castle : 

 July l&th, 1898. 



P.S. — Since the above was in print, Mr. Yine has kindly supplied 

 me with some further information about the life-history of A. Vinella. 

 He says that the larvse which he finds becoming full-fed in the latter 

 part of April pupate at once, and produce imagines during May, and 

 that the larvas of the second brood feed in June and July, and the 

 moths emerge in July and August, worn examples occurring at large 

 even in September. There seems no doubt that in Nature the insect 

 Mbernates in the larval state. — E. E, B., October IQth, 1891. 



" HOEW-FEEDING LAKV^." 



Ivide " Nature," LYIII, 140-1, figs. (No. 1493 : 9, VI, 1898)]. 



BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., P.R.S., kc. 

 (with kote by J. HARTLEY CURRANT, F.E.S.). 



Mr. "W. H. McCorquodale contributed a note under the above 

 title to " Nature," and figured the skull and horns of a Hartebeeste 

 showing the protruding cocoons of a Tinea which he identified as 

 Tinea vastella, Zeller. He stated that the skull of the Hartebeeste 

 figured was received from West Africa, and yet he wrote on p. 141 — 

 " The habitat of the moth was generally supposed to be Africa^ but 

 Sir George Hampson showed me some specimens which he had col- 

 lected in various districts in India." 



Micro-Lepidopterists had "generally supposed" the habitat of 

 this moth to be Africa for the following reasons : — 



