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“halpi being hairy beneath ; 3°—in the extremely short tongue; 4°—in the different 
“venation of the wings; and 5°—in the slender, extremely lively, case-bearing larva. 
“This larva differs from all other case-bearers by its slenderness, its sharply 
“separated thoracic segments, its tremulous movements when crawling, and by 
“the readiness with which it turns round in its narrow case, and walks forward 
“from the open hinder end of its case. The slender, fusiform case, which is 5—6 
“lines long, has a certain similarity to that of Psyche pulla, only that the pieces of 
“dry grass of which it is composed are fastened closely to one another and almost 
“smoothly, and that both ends of the case are quite free and open. From the 
““ comparative smoothness of the case, the larva moves forward with it very easily, 
‘but should it meet with any obstacle, it quickly turns round in its case, puts its 
“head out of the other end of its case, and walks away in another direction. 
“I discovered a solitary larva at Glogau accidentally some years ago, on a 
“sandy place among lichens and various low plants, but as I could not make out on 
“what it fed, I could not rear it. Some years later, at Meseritz, I found out that 
“it fed on Hieracium pilosella, and in 1868, I found it when searching for it. On 
“the 18th of July, I sought for it in the dry fir plantation where I had occasionally 
“previously met with it, and as I lay on the ground searching amongst the tufts 
“of Hieracium, I met with four larvee of different sizes, one of which was crawling 
“on a bit of Hieracium (I had generally only found them on the sand), and one 
“actually sticking in the heart of a plant of Hieracium. I fed them with Hieracium 
‘in a flower pot till they were full grown. Stainton had told me that these larve 
‘also fed on heather, which did not occur in the locality where I found my larve. 
“They spun their cases up firmly at one end like the larvaa of Coleophora. On the 
“1st January, 1869, I bred (in-doors) a female, so that I now knew the species 
“ which this curious larva produced.” 
The perfect insect was first bred more than ten years ago by the late Herr 
Friedrich Hofmann, of Ratisbon, and since then, Mr. T. Wilkinson, of Scarborough, 
has obtained the larvee from eggs deposited by the females of incongruella; but 
can we not all perfectly appreciate Professor Zeller’s feelings of not being quite 
sure of the thing till he had seen it himself?—H. T. Srainron, Mountsfield, 
Lewisham, May 7th, 1870. 
Capture of Dicranura bicuspis, §c., at Leoninster.—From various parts of the 
kingdom the complaint has reached me of the unusual scarcity of insects this 
spring. Such has not altogether been the case here, although several species have 
not occurred which are some seasons met with. The sallow-bloom was very pro- 
ductive ; once again I had the pleasure of taking all the British species of the genus 
Teniocampa on one night; as usual, opima was very rare, only one example was 
taken, leucographa and gracilis were very still when boxed, and reached home in 
fine condition ; miniosa and populeti, on the contrary, soon damaged themselves. 
Hybernating moths were represented by three X. petrificata, three semibrunnea, one 
H. croceago, &c., &c.—the last-named species had never before been taken here. 
Early in April the weather became very cold, and most insects disappeared ; 
but, nevertheless, several species of Hwpithecia occurred—consignata, irriquata 
(two, both unfortunately males), indigata (in numbers), vulgata, dodoneata, abbre- 
