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in woods With reference to this, we ask our readers to compare the late Se. 
von Heyden s Note on his Grapholitha gallicolana, in the Stettin. Zeitunc. fori 
p. 118 C' Entomologist's Annual," 1868, p. 41). An examination of\ tn 
galhcolana (which was bred from oak-apples) induces ns to think it may onlVl 
chmatic form of our ohscurana. Mr. Dale bred his specimen on the 23rd J 
from oak-apples collected in the spring, near Sherborne. Ohscnrana occur 
Uarenth,andwe hope some of our metropolitan entomologists will collect, 
apples there next spring; but the insect probably frequents all oak-woods 
will become common now that something is known of its habits 
Dr Rossler states that the larvae of gamcolana live through the winter in 
o d anddned galls of Cynijos .ueras-terminalis which are firmly fixed on that, 
of young oaks, and that severe winters seem to be fatal to them • after a i 
winter, nearly every gall collected produced one or several of the moth.-EDS. 
Notes on PsycMdce. -Bruana's name of anicanella is very apt for that spec 
as the ? has the anal tnft of a snowy whiteness. In the ? of salicicolellaP 
part ^ not altogether so white, particularly beneath, but it has a white bloo. 
the s.des. The anterior wings of the c? of the last species are mucK elon.atei 
fact very different from any other I possess. The <? anicanella, on the contn 
much resembles in appearance specimens of our intennediella and roboricolella 
Judging by Bruand's description in his Manual, surely these two last arer 
named in orrr collections, as he describes the ? of the first to be much Ugh 
coloured th.n crassiorella, ^l^ereas oarinternrediella ? is 6,/arthe darkest of 
we have, and he describes the ? of rohoricoJeUa as having a v:Mte anal tuff o 
iias it brown. 
In all probabihty, the mistake has arisen from male specimens only har 
been sent to the Continent to be named, without the cases and fen.oles in a fr 
state, It would surely be impossible to determine a species 
Males of intermediella copulated most readily with females of roloncoM 
and ^■^ce versa, but I could not get males- of anicanella to take to any females I 
those of Its own species, and then only towards evening (the other species copulat 
at any time, even in broad sunshine). 
It seems to be of a much more sluggish nature than the rest, more nea. 
allied, as its case proclaims to Pysche fusca, which flies most at dusk 
Amcanella 1 discovered for the first time this season, although I have work 
our woods nearly 30 years. 
I wish entomologists in other localities would interest themselves more wi 
this little genus; but I am afraid its friends are few 
I have the young of tkree species now feeding on the trunk of an apricot 
Hampstead, N.W,, September 8th, 1869. 
Life history of Ennnelesia nnifasoiata.~I am indebted to Mr. J. Bryant f 
he^ecirnens which have enabled Mr. Buckler and myself to work out the ear 
stages of this species, which had long eluded our investigations 
I have taken the imago at gas-lamps here in Exeter, and have several tim. 
had eggs sent to me ; and amongst other plants, I hav. ,„n.,.-.. ..„!.„ 
