^^ [No,emb 
Mr. Buckler's gallery of larva-portraits might be benefited. My experience is 
small, that I trust Mr. Gregson will kindly tell us his modus operandi in findii 
and rearing these larvffl. It is probable that all (or nearly all) mosses are eaten 1 
the larvae indifferently, for I have found some of the species he mentions feedii 
on different mosses from those he names, e.g., S. muralis on Hypnum cupressifom 
Dicranum scoparium, &c., Crambus falsellus on ToHula (SyntricMa) intermedia ^j,i 
auralis, S. truncicolalis on Dicranum scoparium, &c. &c. I have not found any larv 
feeding on the Hepaticoe (Jungermannice), or on lichens. The time for looking 
of course spring and early summer, and the localities that I have found mo 
productive are shady rocks, large boulders and walls, especially on the north sid 
as most mosses grow there. To find the larv^, peel off the moss and examine tl 
under-side of it. If larv^ be there, the galleries of silk slightly spun npc 
the moss and the frass will indicate their presence. To rear them, I find the be 
plan is to place the tufta of moss in a jam-pot with ground top, and cover with 
piece of glass-the moss will not require moistening. The perfect insects wi 
appear at intervals during the summer. Probably, if the larv^ are youug, son 
fresh moss should occasionally be put into the jam-pot. Another Cryptogam 
phagous larva, not often seen, is that of Nudaria mundana. To find thi 
note some wall of loose stones (a "dry stone dyke") where the imago 
abundant, and in May lift the upper stones and examine their under-sides. Tl 
larvae will be found feeding on a green confervoid growth that covers the stones.- 
F. Buchanan Whitk, Perth, Octoher, 1869. 
Captures at Yarmouth, with notes on the earlier stages of Crambus fasceUnellus.- 
Some time last June, my young friend, Mr. Geo. Hunt, went over to Yarmouth fc 
a days' collecting, but, the weather being cold and windy, could get very Uttl 
except Eubolia Uneolata. He, however, chanced to notice that the wind in blowin 
away the loose sand had exposed several cocoons, and by disturbing the sand h 
found a few more. Of these he kindly brought several to me, but, supposing the, 
belonged to some common Noctua, I took no steps to obtain more, till on July 13th 
I wa^ startled by the appearance of a lovely Crambus, which, though new to me 
could be no other than fascelinellus (pedriolellus) . 
Being unable sooner to leave home, I went on the 19th to Yarmouth am 
after searching for some hours with very little success, at last found the cocoon, 
in comparative plenty, and collected a considerable number 
These sandhills Gocally called Denes) are the most barren that I have eve: 
seen ; there is very little even of the Marram or bent (Ammophila arenaria), am 
what there IS is stunted. Ononis spinosa in patches, Galium verum. Convolvulus 
soklanella, and a curious square looking succulent plant, with a berry-like capsule 
at the top, are the most conspicuous plants, and in those places in which the sane 
IS too loose even for these, scattered blades of Triticum junceum only are to be foaud 
This grass appears to be the food af fascelinellus, and from observations mad* 
while searching for the cocoons, I gather that the larva lives under the surface ol 
the sand in a silken tube of considerable size, that it feeds especially on the cen- 
tral shoot of the grass gnawing it down to the root, and that this dry pabulum 
suffers little apparent change in passing through its system, since the hinder pad 
of the tube is generally stuffed with frass closely resembling bitten up morsels ol 
grass. 
