4842 Entomological Botany. 



which it belongs by strict hereditary descent. My ultimate aim is 

 to offer a scientific explanation of the appearance, from time to time, 

 of seemingly new species on the earth, and of the extinction of 

 others, thus restoring to legitimate science that branch of philosophy 

 which the theory of successive creations, invented by Cuvier and still 

 maintained by his followers, had clearly removed from it. To prove 

 the unity of the organization, the unity of creation, and the serial 

 unity of all that lives or has ever lived, forms the aim of the first part 

 of this inquiry. 



R. Knox. 



Meissen House, Upper Clapton, 

 September, 1855. 



Entomological Botany {with, more especial reference to the Plants 

 frequented by the Tineina). By H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



(Continued from page 4777). 



Lotus major. Greater BirdVfoot Trefoil. 



It is probable that most of the species which feed upon L. cornicu- 

 latus feed also on this plant ; at any rate, the Nepticula (still not bred) 

 does, as I found several of it in Headley Lane last month. 



Astragalus Glycyphyllos. Sweet Milk Vetch ; Wild Liquorice. 



Speyer enumerates as feeding on this, Lycaena Cyllarus, Anthrocera 

 Achillea?, A. Hippocrepidis and A. Onobrychis, all species unknown to 

 us as British, though it is extremely likely that we have yet to find more 

 than one species of Anthrocera. Toxocampalusoria, not yet detected 

 in this country, feeds on this plant in May. Two species of Coleo- 

 phora feed on this plant, neither of which has been found in this 

 country, because neither has been looked for : they are C. Coronillae 

 and C. serenella. The former is most plentiful in August; it has a 

 rather long case, without lappets ; it eats again a little in May. C. se- 

 renella, whose personal acquaintance I made at Glogau and Stettin, 

 where it seems to occur almost wherever the plant grows, feeds in Sep- 

 tember and again plentifully in May ; the case is short, white and 

 very broad, reminding one of a short lady with numerous flounces. 

 This was the insect to which Reaumur gave the name of Teigne a 



