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nut, small, with a broad division, anal plate small, yellow-brown. Burrowing in tlie 

 old honeyeorab, and making passages through it, but not lining them with any silk. 

 When out of the comb, most remarkably active, either in search of food or of a 

 proper place for pupation. This, however, commonly took place in the comb, a 

 tough, spindle-shaped, yellow cocoon being formed — or, indeed, many in a bunch. 

 Those larvse which left the comb spun tough strong cocoons between cardboard or 

 paper, or in some corner. The moth, on emergence, displayed even greater activity 

 in running than the larva, and the speed with which Ihey would run over, under, 

 and about the comb, rendered it no easy matter to box them. At dusk, however, 

 they usually left the comb and flew about the room, settling down after a time at 

 the sides of the window. But some showed a far more enquiring disposition, and 

 came downstairs into other rooms, where they found the lights irresistible. One or 

 two females paired, and laid eggs on the comb, and in a few days the young larvae 

 were at work. They grew rapidly, and, before I was aware, they had devoured the 

 whole remainder of the comb, leaving a bare bunch of cocoons, and a mass of debris, 

 and then galloped off full speed to search for more provender. But I could get no 

 more at the moment, and the impatient creatures ran all over the place until they 

 were tired, and then spun up. Very few were more than half-grown, some not a 

 quarter, and I concluded that they would die, but this was by no means their 

 intention. In a few weeks they began to emerge, and in the fine weather of October 

 they were flying in almost all parts of the house, some being nearly or quite as small 

 as the allied Meliphora alveariella. About this time, I went over to Wisbech, and 

 found that the Messrs. Balding had received a large mass of infested comb, and had 

 actually reared (doubtless, in two broods) specimens continuously from July to 

 October, to the number of more than a thotisand. With such tenacity of life, and 

 such extraordinary activity as this species possesses, it would become a most formid- 

 able pest if it were to feed as freely upon new comb as it does upon old. — C. Q-. 

 Baerett, King's Lynn, Norfolk : November \Uh, 1889. 



Anarta mt/rtilli at /towers.— On the very day of leaving' Haslcmere, I walked 

 up to a strip of woodland on one of the slopes of Blackdown, in the hope of a few 

 more Hi/pena crassalis, to make me a good fresh series— with the result, of course, 

 of catching only one specimen. Eain had fallen, but the morning was bright and 

 warm, and moths common— in both senses of the term ; Eupithecia lariciata in 

 plenty among larch, and Cidaria corytata scurrying hastily off every oak trunk, with 

 other still more abundant species ; but I was witness of a performance so new to me 

 as fully to reward me for the walk. Rhododendrons, though getting over, still had 

 many bunches of blossoms, and at one of these, hovering like a Sphinx or a Flnsia, 

 ■was a little moth very evidently sucking the honey. Much astonished was I, in 

 netting him, to find a worn but unmistakeable Anarta myrtilli, which had left his 

 usual headlong exercise over the heather to visit the Rhododendron flowers.— 

 Id. : December Qth, 1889. 



Identity of Phycis adornatella and P. subornatella.~lx\ the Entomologists' 

 Annual for 1867, p. 140, et seq., is a translation, from the " Isis, 1816," of Professor 

 Zeller's descriptions of adornatella, Tr., and subornatella, Dup., which he regarded 

 as distinct species. He distinguished subornatella " by jthe paler white of the 



