4034 Tnscets. 



on Colutea arborescens, gives the same reference to Reaumur. 

 Further, the peculiar case figured by Reaumur does not belong 

 to the larva of any species with which we are acquainted, unless 

 indeed it be that of Astragalella, the form of which I do not find 

 mentioned. 



Ditella. " Discovered by Von Heyden, at Frankfort ; the larva- 

 cases are found on Artemisia campestris." — Zeller, Linn. Ent. 

 iv. 248. 



Vicinella. Herr Mann sent one specimen of this, and one of par- 

 titella, to Professor Zeller, with the information, "near Szexard, 

 in Hungary, the larva-cases on Coronilla, from which the moths 

 came out in July." — Linn. Ent. iv. 252. The cases resemble 

 those of palliatella. 



lbipennella. The larva-case, exactly similar to that of Tiliella, 

 was found on an oak-leaf at Frankfort. 



Albifuscella. The larva-case was found by Senator von Heyden, 

 in July, attached to the lower part of the capsule of Lychnis 

 viscaria, with only a small portion of the end projecting. 

 Reaumur has figured (pi. 8, f. 21 — 24) the case of a larva feed- 

 ing on the leaves of a species of Lychnis. 



Flavaginella. Madame Lienig found the larvae on walls, fences, 

 and trunks of birch-trees, from March to the end of June ('Isis/ 

 1846, p. 295). Zeller suspects that the larvae which feed in 

 autumn on the seeds of Chenopodium and Atriplex should be 

 referred to this species.* 



Directella. Dr. Wocke found about eighty cases of the larvae on 

 Artemisia vulgaris, on the 26th of May, 1848, after a thunder- 

 shower. " The larvae however did not take to the food offered 

 them, and nearly all died ; probably they had only crawled on 

 to the Artemisia out of the wet. Only two of the perfect insects 

 came out towards the middle of July." — Linn. Ent. iv. 368. 

 The cases were cylindrical, clothed with thick, short, whitish- 

 gray down. Mr. Douglas and myself have taken the perfect 

 insect of a Coleophora among Artemisia, which may, perhaps, 

 when we obtain bred specimens, prove to be this species : but 

 hitherto we have found no larvae on the Artemisia. A singular 

 case, found by M. Bruand of Besanc,on on Artemisia, was for- 

 warded by him to Mr. Doubleday this spring. The case is ex- 

 traordinarily broad, and looks more like a withered bud ; the 



* See Postscript, p. 4036. 



