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country, is considered in many parts of the Continent as an injurious 

 garden-insect, from the penchant that the larva has for eating up the 

 undeveloped rose-buds. The little yellow Dictyopteryx Bergman- 

 niana is too common a frequenter of rose-bushes to have escaped the 

 notice of any diligent collector. 



The first rose-feeding larva belonging to the Tineina which en- 

 gages our attention is that of Lampronia quadripunctella : in the 

 month of June, when the gay- coloured Harpella Geoffrella is on 

 the wing, his sombre insect, to which Professor Zeller gave the sour 

 epithet of morosa, flies in little swarms, at early morn, round the twigs 

 of the rose-bushes; the larva, which is reddish brown or brownish red, 

 at any rate more red than the larva of Spilonota roborana, feeds in 

 the young shoots of the rose at the end of April and beginning 

 of May. 



The next rose- feeder is Coleophora gryphipennella, which, now 

 that it has been so popularised by Mr. Douglas in his ' World 

 of Insects,' and by Mr. Shield in his c Practical Hints,' has become a 

 household word with nearly all my readers, and needs no lengthened 

 history from me ; it is found juvenile in the autumnal months blotching 

 the rose-leaves by extracting their juices just before they fall, and in 

 May we again find it after a six months' fast at its old trade, with its 

 ochreous case with serrated edge attached to the under side of the 

 leaf. 



Tischeria angusticollella, a species we have yet to find in this 

 country, treats the rose-leaves in a very similar mode to that followed 

 out on bramble-leaves by T. marginea ; it makes large blotches, 

 a little puckered. A Lithocolletis feeding on rose is one of the 

 " things hoped for," of the existence of which we are not at present 

 aware. The known Nepticuloe of the rose are three, — anomalella, 

 angulifasciella and Centifoliella ; to what extent the last feeds on 

 other species of rose than that (RosaCentifolia) from which it derives 

 its name we are not aware. The mines of anomalella and angu- 

 lifasciella are sufficiently distinguished, as the gallery-mine with 

 a yellow larva and the blotch-mine with a greenish larva. The mine 

 of the yellow larva of Centifoliella resembles somewhat that of ano- 

 malella, but the commencement of the mine is not entirely filled up 

 with excrement, for you see a slender whitish margin on either 

 side. 



A larva which T have repeatedly collected, but never bred, feeds on 

 the pulp of the hips in October; it is pinkish in colour; it quits the 

 hips when full-fed (you can see at once where it has been by the 



