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from ibe old roots, and were from two to three inches high. A week after the damaged 

 sprouts were completely hid by their more vigorous fellows, and no one could have 

 found them from any visible evidence in the plant without being told. I told Mr. 

 Gregson about a fortnight or three weeks after, and in a few days he came to War- 

 rington and went to the place, and, knowing it was there, of course found it. The 

 larvaB on the 2nd of May were about half-grown, and must, I think, have hybernated, 

 as I could not see any borings in the old roots. The colour was pale brown with three 

 rows of black dots on each side, their position subdorsal, lateral and spiracular. On 

 examining a full-grown larva I found the space below the lateral line greenish. The 

 first imago emerged on the 29th of last month, since which dale I have had eight more 

 out. — James Cooper; Museum, Warrington, July 15, 1860. 



Larva of Diplodoma marginepunctella carnivorous. — I have in ray possession a 

 larva of the above species, which I found at West Wickham last May, and, since 

 I have had it, it has eaten one Torlrix, several common house-flies and some few 

 Micros. I have never given it any green food, but kept it solely on insects, which it 

 has greedily devoured. — C. Healy ; 74, Napier Street, Hoxton, N., August 9, 1860. — 

 From the ' Intelligencer.' 



Larva of Talceporia pseudo-bombycella carnivorous. — I have also a larva of this 

 species, which, after eating two house-flies and one 'male T. pseudo-bombycella, has 

 fastened one wing of the deceased T. pseudo-bombycella to the top of its case, where 

 it stands bolt upright, giving the case a very comical appearance. — Id. 



Coleophora vibicella. — On the 3rd of July, 1859, Mr. John Bradley, of Worcester, 

 conveyed some of the larvae and pupae of this species from Trench Woods, and dis- 

 tributed them amongst Genista tincioria at Middleyard, near Bransford, Worcester- 

 shire: visiting that place on the 3rd instant I found numerous recent cases of the 

 larvae, and one fine imago.— J. E. Fletcher ; August 7, 1860. 



Observations on Coleophora melilotella. — Only a single example of this insect, for 

 which I proposed the above name, has been reared, and this is now on Mr. Stainton's 

 setting-board. It belongs to the same group as C. Frischella, and seems to stand 

 intermediate between that species and Deauratella. In the specimen bred the green 

 is of a different hue, and should this be the case with those captured in their natural 

 haunts it will serve as an easy character to distinguish it from the allied species. 

 There may be other characters as decided by which it may be recognised at first sight, 

 hut not having yet had an opportunity of making a minute investigation I leave the 

 matter for the present, contenting myself with the fancy that I see C. conspicuella a 

 drug and this new one conspicuous. — John Scott ; 13, Torrington Villas, Lee, S.E., 

 June 26, 1860. — From the ' Intelligencer.' 



Larva of Asthenia coniferana. — I have bred A. coniferana from larvae furnished 

 me by W. Backhouse, Esq. ; they feed in the bark of Scotch fir, turning part of the 

 " frass '' outside ; they are dull yellowish white, with the head pale brown, and with no 

 spots. Length about five-eighths of an inch. — John Sang ; Darlington, June I, 

 I860.— W. 



Carpocapsa Reaurnurana. — Under this name I have given to many entomologists 

 specimens of a Carpocapsa bred from chestnuts. It is described and figured by Reau- 

 mur, vol. ii. p. 501, pi. 40, fig. 13, 14, 15. It appears to be distinct from C. splendana, 

 C. amplana and C. fagiglandana. — Carl von Heyden. — From the ' Correspondenzblalt,' 

 No. 7, p. 55. 



[This larva infests the chestnuts sold in London every year : I found of last year's 



