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at Chudleigh, in Devonshire, on the 13th and 14th June, 1850, that I obtained my 

 specimens of 0. ulmana. I can readily conceive tliat in early spring the ground 

 there is yellow over with the ilowers of Ranunculus Jicaria. — H. T. S.J 



Habit of Nemotoisfasciellus. — Last April I received from the late Mr. W. Farren 

 half-a-dozen larvae of this species ; he had found them feeding on Ballota nigra, 

 near Cambridge. Mr. Farren, having collected a number of these larvae, put a plant 

 of Ballota in a large flower pot, and on top of the soil he placed a quantity of dry 

 fibrous rubbish, from one and a half to two inches in depth ; he then plunged the 

 pot in the garden, turned the larvse on to it, and tied a piece of coarse muslin over 

 all ; lest they should suffer from excess of wet he fixed a piece of glass above the top 

 of the plant to keep out most of the rain. The larvae fed up well under this treat- 

 ment, and when their time for pupation arrived, they burrowed right through the 

 fibrous rubbish down into the solid earth and there fixed their cases, end up, just 

 below the surface of the earth. Afterwards, on taking the cases out, Mr. Farren 

 found they were anchored by a silken thread to any little pieces of fibre which were 

 handy. He also noticed that the antennal cases, which are very long, are detached 

 and loose from the body of the pupa. From 46 larvae he bred 43 moths, so that 

 these larvae were certainly unusually free from parasites. Whether that is the 

 general characteristic of the species is, however, a matter for further observation. 

 The foregoing notes were kindly furnished to me by Miss Farren during her father's 

 last illness. — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham : February \st, 1888. 



The Coleophora of the Potentilla, which was originally found in St. Leonard's 

 Forest, Horsham, by Mr. W. C. Boyd several years ago. — This insect has been so 

 long known under the manuscript name of Coleophora potentilla of Boyd, that it 

 seems quite time it should have the pleasure of seeing its name in type. 



Allied to C. paripennella and ahenella (noticed Ent. Mo. Mag., xvi, 165), C. 

 potentillcB is smaller than either ; the expansion of the wings varying from 4 — 4^ 

 lines, whereas the exp. al. of paripennella is 5 lines and that of ahenella rather 

 more. 



The anterior wings are more slender than in either of the two above-named 

 species, and are bronzy-green or bronzy-grey ; whereas, those of paripennella are 

 brownish-bronze, and ahenella only differs in colour from that species by being a 

 little darker. The antennae of potentilla are sharply annulated throughout their 

 length (in this respect resembling ahenella and very different from paripennella), 

 with only the first two basal joints entirely dark and slightly thickened. 



The larva of potentillce is an autumnal feeder, allied in habit to paripennella, 

 and, like that insect, feeding indifferently on several plants. Mr. Boyd has an idea 

 that it sits flatter on the leaf than the larva of paripennella, though I am scarcely 

 able to conceive how that can be possible ; the case much resembles in structure that 

 of paripennella, but is, I believe, always paler. 



After the insect had been found in St. Leonard's Forest, Horsham, by Mr. 

 Boyd, Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher met with it on the Downs near Arundel, Steyning and 

 Worthing, feeding on bramble, raspberry, rose, Spircea filipendula and Poterium 

 sanguisorba, as well as on Potentilla tormentilla. 



Mr. Fletcher finds that in captivity the larvae eat readily the leaves of straw- 

 berry. Mr. Elisha has, I believe, met with the insect in Epping Forest. — Id. 



