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plentiful at Grimescar. Tiriphena tianthina, in the larva state in spring. Polia 
flavocincta, larvee not uncommon in the garden in Juno on “everlasting pea;” 
imagos in September, at sugar and at rest, Dasypolia Templi, 1st April, a specimen 
at rest on an elm twig beside a gas lamp at Birkby; in the autumn a man worked 
two days for me, turning over stones, but only found two specimens, Shepley. 
Heliothis marginata, 8th June, bred a good series from larva sent to me from 
Scarborough, and which I fed on Polygonum persicaria. Mania maura, 12th 
August, Clare Hill. Hbulea sambucalis, an elder tree in the garden had the lower 
part entirely stripped of its leaves with the great abundance of the larve of this 
insect.— Gro. T. Porritt, Huddersfield, December 28rd, 1870. 
Captures of Lepidoptera near Norwich.—On the 14th July last, I walked over to 
a place some little distance the other side of Norwich, in which Owyptilus teucrit 
occurred in some numbers last year. Here I again found the pretty little plume, 
among Teucrium scorodonia, and flying over it in plenty towards evening, and was also 
highly pleased to find Sophronia parenthesella flying rather commonly after sunset 
over very short and stunted heath: its habit was to start up at one’s feet and dart 
rapidly away with a zigzag flight, settling again at a short distance, and specimens 
continued to turn up in this way until it was too dark to catch them. 
Earlier in the afternoon I had obtained, by beating a neighbouring strip of fir 
trees, several specimens of Batrachedra pinicolella, as well as Thera jirmaria, 
Sericoris bifasciana and Stigmonota coniferana.—Cuas. G. Barrerr, Norwich, 13th 
October, 1870. 
Teichobia Verhuellella feeding on Asplenium trichomanes.— arly last spring my 
father, spending a few days at Ashburton, in Devon, and finding some of the small 
ferns very plentiful there, sent me a lot of plants, to console me, I suppose, for 
living in a neighbourhood in which even Polypodium is hardly common, and jiliv-mas 
is quite an object of interest. These were doing very well under glass, when one 
day in April I noticed that some of the pinnae of a plant of Asplenium trichomanes 
were gnawed by an insect, and a very little examination enabled me to find two 
larvae, easily recognizable as those of Teichobia Verhuellella at work underneath 
them. Their mode of feeding was to devour the whole of the substance of each 
pinna, except its upper cuticle—which was left partially transparent—and the 
fructification, which was carefully added to the case under which each larva fed, 
consequently the case increased in size as the larva grew. This case lies flat upon, 
or rather under, the pinna upon which the larva is feeding and never appears to be 
raised on its end like those of the allied species, otherwise it rather resembles in 
texture and roughness, though not in shape or position, the loose outer case of 
Diplodoma marginepunctella. The larva carries it from place to place as it feeds, 
and ultimately assumes the pupa state in it. One of mine attached it to the 
wpper-side of a frond and the other laid it across the under-side of the rachis and 
two pinnew. This was at the end of May, and the moths appeared on June 8thand 
9th. 
| This seems to be a deviation from the usual habit of the larva of this species, 
_ which is described as “ burrowing under the fructification of Asplenium ruta-muraria 
Bea Scolopendrum vulgare.” The locality too is worth noting as the insect is most 
— common there.—Ip. 
