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in woods. With reference to this, we ask our readers to compare the late Senator 

 von Heyden's Note on his Grapholitha gallicolana, in the Stettin. Zeitung for 1860, 

 p. 118 ("Entomologist's Annual," 1868, p. 41). An examination of a type of 

 gallicolana (which was bred from oak-apples) induces us to think it may only be a 

 climatic form of our obscurana. Mr. Dale bred his specimen on the 23rd June, 

 from oak-apples collected in the spring, near Sherborne. Obscurana occurs at 

 Darenth, and we hope some of our metropolitan entomologists will collect oak- 

 apples there next spring ; but the insect probably frequents all oak-woods, and 

 will become common now that something is known of its habits. 



Dr. Bossier states that the larvae of gallicolana live through the winter in the 

 old and dried galls of Cynips quercus-terminalis which are firmly fixed on the twigs 

 of young oaks, and that severe winters seem to be fatal to them ; after a mild 

 winter, nearly every gall collected produced one or several of the moth. — Eds. 



Notes on Psy chides. — Bruand's name of anicanella is very apt for that species, 

 as the $ has the anal tuft of a snowy whiteness. In the $ of salicicolella ? this 

 part is not altogether so white, particularly beneath, but it has a white bloom at 

 the sides. The anterior wings of the $ of the last species are much elongated, in 

 fact very different from any other I possess. The $ anicanella, on the contrary, 

 much resembles in appearance specimens of our intermediella and roboricolella. 



Judging by Bruand's description in his Manual, surely these two last are mis- 

 named in our collections, as he describes the $ of the first to be much lighter- 

 coloured than crassiorella, whereas our intermediella ? is by far the darkest of all 

 we have, and he describes the ? of roboricolella as having a white anal tuft : ours 

 has it brown. 



In all probability, the mistake has arisen from male specimens only having 

 been sent to the Continent to be named ; without the cases and females in a fresh 

 state, it would surely be impossible to determine a species. 



Males of intermediella copulated most readily with females of roboricolella, 

 and vice versa, but I could not get males of anicanella to take to any females but 

 those of its own species, and then only towards evening (the other species copulated 

 at any time, even in broad sunshine). 



It seems to be of a much more sluggish nature than the rest, more nearly 

 allied, as its case proclaims to Pysche fusca, which flies most at dusk. 



Anicanella I discovered for the first time this season, although I have worked 

 our woods nearly 30 years. 



I wish entomologists in other localities would interest themselves more with 

 this little genus; but I am afraid its friends are few. 



I have the young of three species now feeding on the trunk of an apricot in 

 my garden, and growing capitally, but they are mixed. — Robert Mitfoed^ 

 Hampstead, N.W., September 8th, 1869. 



Life history of Emmelesia unifasciata. — I am indebted to Mr. J. Bryant for 

 the specimons which have enabled Mr. Buckler and myself to work out the early 

 stages of this species, which had long eluded our investigations. 



I have taken the imago at gas-lamps here in Exeter, and have several times 

 had eggs sent to me ; and amongst other plants, I have supplied the young larvae 



