Insects. 5437 



Boisduval, discovered by Anderegg in Switzerland, upon Juniperus Sabina, and new 

 to this country. — Id. 



Tortrix latiorana and Depressaria libanotidella. — In Mr. Stain ton's 'Annual' for 

 the present year a Tortrix is described, under the name of latiorana, as a species new 

 to Britain. Ten years since I sent specimens of this insect to M. Guenee, and he 

 agreed with me in considering it a pale variety of Tortrix spectrana, a variable 

 species, the larva of which feeds upon a great variety of plants, often upon 

 Ranunculus sceleratus. Depressaria libanotidella is also given in the 'Annual' as 

 British, on the authority of an insect taken by Mr. Turner. I had this specimen in 

 my possession for some weeks, and it appeared to me to be only a slight variety of 

 D. badiella. Mr. Stainton's description applies to the true libanotidella. Mr. 

 Turner's insect does not at all resemble the specimens of this species kindly given to 

 me by Zeller. — Id. 



Note on Cheimatobia autumnaria. — There seems to be a prevalent opinion that 

 this insect does not occur in the South of England ; I, however, can affirm the 

 contrary, having taken it at Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, at the end of October 

 or early in November, 1854. It accompanied C. dilutaria, of which there was great 

 abundance. — J. F. Brockholes ; 16, Egerton Terrace, Birkenhead. 



Early appearance of Phigalia pilosaria. — A singular male variety of this species 

 was taken on a beech tree near Manchester on the 2nd of November, being at least 

 three months earlier than usual. I hope no advantage will be taken of this by the 

 " double-brooded agitators."— Robert S. Edleston; Bowdon, January 10, 1857. 



Larva of Nepticula subbimaculella. — When collecting mines of Nepticulse last 

 autumn I observed the larva of the above-named species to be somewhat gregarious; 

 in one blotch-mine were five larvae, occasionally four and three, repeatedly two. I 

 have not observed the same to occur in any other species. Mr. Stainton, in his 

 ' Natural History of the Tineina,' p. 268, remarks upon the green appearance of the 

 leaf in autumn when tenanted by this larva; the same appears in most autumn 

 leaves, whether tenanted by Nepticula or Lithocolletis ; it is very conspicuous in 

 mountain ash when tenanted by L. Aucupariella. — Id. 



On the Habitats and Food-plants of several of the British Pterophorida?. — I do not 

 intend in this paper to give a description of all the species in this interesting, but 

 much neglected genus, but of only such as have fallen under my own observation. 

 Most of the larvae are green and hairy, and it appears they prefer feeding under the 

 leaves of their food-plants, seldom appearing on the upper surface. 



P. siruilidactvlus I discovered last season, feeding on the under side of the leaves 

 of common wormwood (Artemisia Absinthium) : its presence is easily detected by the 

 white appearance of the leaves: the larva is light green ; full-fed in June; imago out 

 in July : it is very local, and far from common. The name similidactylus is not 

 found in Stainton's works, but for what reason I do not know. 



P. phaeodactylus. This species is also local. Larva green ; feeding on the under 

 side of the leaves of birds'-foot trefoil (Lotus comiculatus) in June ; imago out in 

 July. 



P. lithodactylus. This species has become common during the last four years, 

 from its food-plant being discovered to be the common fleabane (Inula dysenterica). 

 Larva green ; feeding on the under side of the leaves in June; imago out in July. 



P. microdactylus. I took a pupa of this in the stem of the common hemp 

 agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum), where it appeared the larva had fed inside the 



