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Family xv. FIDOXID.E. 
Genus Parage a. 
Paxagea scissaeia, Guenee, n. s. 
Al(B siih-angusfatce, alhidce, sericece : anticce linea umlrata longi- 
tudinali piinctisque cellulari terminalibusque nigris. 
It approaclies group 11 (Lozogramma). Superior vrings rather narrow, acute 
at the apex, slender and silky ; bone-white, with the fringe concolorous, preceded 
by little rounded interneural black dots ; a similar dot in the cellule ; a black lon- 
gitudinal line parts from the base, and is directed towards the apex, which it does 
not reach, conspicuous above, but obliterated beneath : inferior wings equally nar- 
row, somewhat prolonged at the anal angle, paler than the superior, and without 
markings. Antennae ftimished with fine, but long, cUiations. Front glossy and 
rounded. 
Genus Fidox'ia. 
FiDOxiA (?) SEETULABiA, Gucuee, n. s. 
Alee omnes paleacece, nitentes, margine fasciaque terminali iiiferrupta 
nigro-griseis ; linea media punctoque cellulari : subtus concohres, fascia 
media pallida. Antennce pedinat<£. Palpi acuti. Corpus gracile. 
I have onlj one sex of this small species, and dare not affirm that 
it really belongs to the Fidonidce. It has a deceptive appearance of an 
Acidalia. 
All the wings are entii-e, shining, straw -yellow with blackish markings, foi-m- 
ing at fii-st a common border, which is rather unequal, and afterwai-ds another 
similai- unequal band on the superior, greatly interrupted, and leaving sometimes 
only a line on the inferior : the superior have, in addition to the elbow line, a cellu- 
lar dot and two markings on the inner margin : the under-side of the four wings 
have the markings of the upper, and a distinct median band of the grotmd colour 
is there seen, but the colom- is paler on the inferiors. Body slender, concolorous. 
Antennae furnished with long pubescent pectinations. Palpi forming a moderately 
prominent, but veiy acute, beak. 
(To he continued.) 
Occurrence in England of the larva of a terrestrial Trichopterous insect; prohahlif 
Enoicyh. pvsilla, Burmeister. — I have sevei*al times called attention to the existence, 
on the Continent, of a Caddis-fly {Enoicyla pusilla) which, in the larva state, lives 
out of the water amongst moss at the roots of trees ; — the exception in these insects 
which proves the rule. I believe I can now assert that this is a British insect. 
Mr. Fletcher, of Worcester, has obligingly sent me several Hving larvae and their 
cases found in the moss and hchens near the root of willow-trees, and these cases 
exactly resemble those of Enoicyla pusilla, from Bavai-ia, in my collection : they 
are of a very ordinary form — slightly curved cylinders made of fine sand. It only 
remains to breed the insects (which should appear late in the autumn) to enable 
ns to add this most interesting species to the British Fauna. As might naturally 
be expected, the lai-va is destitute of the external respiratory filaments common to 
almost all caddis-worms, but the spiracles ai-e not very evident. E. pusilla is also 
remarkable inasmuch as the female is wingless and little resembling the male. 
Several authors, before its transformations were shown, remarked on the occurrence 
