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only copses which I worked without finding the Luffia, were Bordwood 
and Littlecastle Wood, in the former of which the favoured kind of 
lichen seems comparatively scarce. 
Solenobia, ? sp. A few in Centurion’s Copse, amongst the Luffias ; 
three, and a few empty cases in Littlecastle Wood (‘‘ America Wood”’), 
near Shanklin. 
Fumea casta, Pall. (intermediella, Brd.). When Mr. H. H. May was 
with me at Sandown last autumn, we were one morning seeking shelter 
from a passing shower, on aseat on the beach near Littlestairs Point, 
when he called my attention to two empty cases of this species spun up 
on thearbour of sallow, &c., which overhung us. I therefore worked 
the spot this spring, and found a dozen or so half-grown specimens of 
F’, casta, all quite low down on the sallow trunks or on withered grass 
stems close by; as is well known, this species does not generally go up 
to any height until full-fed. Judging from last years’ cases, this is 
one of the large forms of the species, and of course it is quite possible 
it may turn out to be something interesting. A few typical cases of I’. 
casta were also found inland, in Rowdown Copse and Littlecastle 
Wood. 
Since my return to London I have given a little attention to tree- 
trunks in Epping Forest, as there is some mystery about the Proutias 
occurring there—one or two of my specimens having been determined 
by Dr. Chapman as probable betulina, though apparently not absolutely 
identical with Mr. Whittle’s, while others are supposed to be “‘ eppingella, 
n. sp.” —and more material is highly desirable. Thus far, I have only 
found four, three on one hawthorn trunk, and one on another; they are 
not yet full-grown, and I find they eat leaves of hawthorn and plum. The 
only place where I have taken them, either this year or previously, is 
near the Connaught Water, just to the eastward of the ‘‘ Red Path.” 
In the same place, I found a very few larve of a Solenobia, which 
seems to me to agree entirely with my Sandown species ; also a few 
empty cases of F'umea casta. 
I have already alluded to my unsuccessful hunt for Diplodoma 
herminata, Geott. (maryinepunctella, Stph.). Ihave to add that I was 
highly pleased last Saturday (May 5th), to pick up a larva low down 
on a willow trunk on the Sale, at Hale End. I have been a good deal 
interested in watching its performances. JI first put it in an empty 
chip box, but an hour or two later I introduced with it a specimen of 
the Solenvbia just mentioned ; opening the box again a few minutes 
afterwards, to put in another, I found the D. herminata watching at the 
mouth of the first Solenobia case, like a cat at a mouse hole. Very 
soon the occupant made its appearance, and herminata made a savage 
pounce upon it; but it was wary enough to withdraw itself rapidly into 
its domicile, and I then removed it out of the way of harm. On my 
return home, I offered my Diplodoma the first animal food which came to 
hand, namely a dead Coccinella and Endrosis which I found in a 
spider’s web; the former was apparently too hard and dry, but the 
latter seems to have pleased it well, for by the next morning its case 
was well adorned with pieces of the wing, quite in the approved style. 
Imay add that Clark and Machin in a MS. list of the Micro- 
lepidoptera of the London district which now lies in my hands (as 
editor of the City of London Kntomological Society's Local List), 
record both Diplodoma herminata and Narycia monilifera (Xysmatodoma 
