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Henricus, &c. ; during hibernation often concealed beneath the bark of trees, yet 

 again moving about in spring." — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham: Mat/ 

 IQth, 1887. 



On the life-history of Coleophora adjunctella, HodgTcinson (Ent. Mo. Mag., xviii, 

 189). — In June, 1886, I had the pleasure of breeding, and also of taking freely in 

 some of the salt-marshes of Hampshire and Sussex, the above-named species. The 

 moth may be obtained throughout the month. It flies from 6 to 7.30 p.m. among 

 Jiinciis Gerardi, on the seeds of which the larva feeds. It appears on the wing a 

 trifle earlier in the season than C. ccespititiella, from which it may be distinguished 

 even as it flies by its smaller size and darker colour, while in the net the darkness of 

 its head-parts is very noticeable. The larva feeds during August and September. 

 Its case is nearly ^-in. in length, and is formed of the perianth and capsule of the 

 rush, with the addition of a silken mouth, and triquetrous 3-lobed tail-piece. The 

 silken parts are at first white, but some become of the same colour as the capsule. 

 Its gi'eater size and the silken tail-piece distinguish it from the case of C. ohtusella, 

 which terminates posteriorly with the remains of the style of the rush-flower. The 

 following description of the larva was taken on September 12th, 1885 : — 



About x^^-in. long ; head light red, marked with brown round the mouth ; body 

 very pale whitish-yellow, pulsating vessel showing as a narrow dorsal line ; 2nd 

 segment with pale plate, divided by fine median line ; on each side of the line about 

 the middle of the plate a short transverse crescentic line of small dots ; the plate 

 shaded with brown along the line and on its hind margin ; on the third segment on 

 the dorsal surface are four small pale plates, with a dark brown spot in the centre of 

 each ; there are similar plates on the sides of the third and fourth segments ; horny 

 parts of legs dark brown ; plates on flap and on sides of anal claspers also dark 

 brown. — W. H. B. Fletchee, Fairlawn House, Worthing : March Vlth, 1887. 



[This is the same species which I afterwards w^cca^dL paludicola (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 xxii, 9) from specimens taken by Mr. Coverdale in a salt-marsh at Shoeburyness. 

 The narrow anterior wings and the generally quite dark antennae (only sometimes 

 partly pale-ringed on the under-side) seem to furnish the most striking characters. 

 In 1876 Mr. Barrett sent me some specimens of a Coleophora from a salt-marsh, 

 near Pembroke, which, though closely resembling this insect, have the anterior wings 

 broader and rather yellower, and the antennae more distinctly annulated, yet it 

 would be difiicult to say these specimens are a distinct species. — H. T. Stainton : 

 April Uh, 1887.] 



JEarinus nitidulus, Ness. — Mr. E. A. Atmore took a ? of this rare Braconid at 

 Xing's Lynn the beginning of May. The Eev. T. A. Marshall says in his Monograph 

 of the Bi-itisli Braconidce (Tr. Ent. Soc, 1885, 269), that the only authority for its 

 occurrence in England is Curtis' Guide, 2nd. ed., column 116. The specimen 

 which Mr. Atmore took is the var. thoracicus, Nees. — John B. Beidgmak, 40, St. 

 G-iles Street, Norwich : May, 1887. 



Sitones and their time of feeding. — It is commonly stated that these weevils feed 

 entirely by day, concealing themselves beneath clods, &c., or descending into the 

 ground during the night. This is not the case, as any one can testify who has exam- 

 ined a few rows of seedling peas or beans at night by the light of a bull's-eye lantern. 



