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J The latva of lariciana is brovvnisli flesh-colour, with the head dark brown, as 



is also the plate on the second segment and the front feet. The spots are scarcely 



if any darker, and only visible by being rather rough, as distinguished from the 



slightly shining surface of the skin. Anal plate broader than long, and darkest at its 



! upper edge. 



I Oceultana is a much larger larva than lariciana, the central segments being also 



j stouter. In colour it is dark greyish-green, lighter between the segments, Avith 

 I conspicuous black shining spots. Head black ; plate on second segment shining 

 black, lighter towards the head. Dorsal line only visible on the second segment as a 

 1 very fine light line. Anal plate large, black, round, inclining to oval. Spiracles 

 j black, distinct, edged with light, with one spot above and two below. Two sub- 

 I dorsal spots on each side, the anterior one being the highest. Eleventh segment 

 j with a spot beside (before) the spiracle, instead of above it. Twelfth segment with 

 a very large dorsal spot, and only one sub-dorsal spot. Front feet black. Posterior 

 1 legs with two small spots at base. Larva when young light green, with the spots 



distinct. 

 ' For the last eight or ten years I have found the larvae of lariciana fairly 



plentiful on one small clump of larch trees whenever I have looked for them, so that 

 ! I have no doubt, when "in season," I can send some to any of my correspondents 

 who may require them. Oceultana must be more variable in its appearance, as I 

 did not detect it until last year, when it was even more plentiful than lariciana, or 

 at any rate more easy to find, as lariciana after vacating one tassel will genei-ally 

 wander a distance before making another tube. Beside these two larvae there is also 

 another which may occasionally be found on the larch, Batodes angustiorana, but it 

 has not had a proper apprenticeship to feeding upon larch, and instead of the neat 

 method of the two species described, it makes a tangle in drawing the needles 

 together, which gets worse as they grow. Except for this it might almost be 

 mistaken for lariciana. — Id. : February hth, 1887. 



Notes on the life-history of Coleophora flaoaginella, Lienig. — This species, 

 which belongs to the obscure section of the genus Coleophora, of which C. laripennella, 

 Zett. {annulatella, Tengstrom), is the best known member, was found by the Rev. 

 C. R. Digby and Mr. Bankes on the coast of Dorsetshire, and on those of Kent and 

 Susses, by myself in 1884. It seems to appear both as imago and larva earlier 

 in the year than any of its near allies. The moth is on the wing throughout June 

 and the first part of July ; even in the backward season, 1886, I took a specimen 

 on June 5th. The browner and narrower-winged species which feeds on Atriplex 

 portulacoides, and has been identified as the insect known to Miihlig as C.flavagi- 

 nella, flies towards the end of June and during July, and is, in turn, followed by 

 C. laripennella and by salinella the whipper-in of the group. 



The larva of the C Jlavaginella of Lienig feeds during July and August on 

 Suceda maritima, at first on the leaves, and afterwards on the flowers and fruits. It 

 may be described thus : — length rather over ^-in. ; head light brown with dai-ker 

 markings ; body pale yellow, darker posteriorly ; corselet brown with pale median 

 line ; 3rd segment with four brown spots in the dorsal region j 2nd, 3rd and 4th 

 with a lateral spot ; a black medio-dorsal spot on the 12th segment ; anal flap black, 

 preceded by a black transverse line on the 13th segment. The ventral surface has a 



