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kiella had Dot yet shown any symptoms 
of its existence. Aglaia Tau flew about 
merrily, but evidently rather the worse 
for wear. I devoted my attention to 
Micropteryx in any form in which I could 
find it: I saw M. Calthella sitting on 
the outside of the flowers of the butter- 
cup, also on the flowers of Carex. Mr. 
Allen Hill used to aver it frequented 
Carex rather than Caltha. I also saw 
M.Tliunbergella flying near a beech bush, 
and likewise observed M. Seppella on 
the wing. I found two of the queer 
miner in beech leaves, which starts off 
like a Nepticula to terminate in a blotch, 
but which can hardly appertain to M. 
Thunbergella, as imago and larva should 
scarcely appear together. 
But the discovery of the day was a 
larva raining the leaves of Anemone 
nemorosa. M. Fologne found the first ; 
it had rained a piece of the tip of a lobe 
of the leaf; the mine was greyish green, 
not transparent, so that we could not 
divine the nature of the tenant — no one 
likes to sacrifice an only child; an ento- 
mologist feels equally tender to au only 
larva. Instead of turning this larva out 
of its mine to see what it was we sought 
for another. Presently I found an ane- 
mone leaf with one of the lobes entirely 
cleaned out and turned brown by a mining 
larva : after some hesitation this mine 
was opened, and a fat whitish larva with 
greenish grey dorsal vessel and brownish 
head was brought to light; it had six 
anterior legs, but no prolegs. Hymen- 
oplerous was the ready solution of the 
problem; but what Hymenopteron is 
known to mine the leaves of Anemone 
nemorosa P and none being known to us 
to do so, M. Fologne declared he would 
run no risk ; he would describe the larva, 
and then try and rear it, lest he should 
again throw away unknown larvae! 
The nest of these larvae wliich we found 
taught us that they can move from leaf 
to leaf: at any rate, it bad cleaned 
out the lobe of the leaf it had first occu- 
pied, and having occasion for more 
nourishment, had entered a fresh lobe, 
and had made a considerable blotch 
therein, which blotch was, when we found 
it, quite clean and free from excrement. 
After that we found another of these 
same larvae : to which order of insects 
they belong is a matter of considerable 
question, which can only be satisfactorily 
solved by the appearance of the imago. 
— H. T. SxAiNTON, Brussels ; May 27, 
1861. 
CEcophora Jlavifrontella bred. — Whilst 
hunting in the Guisbro’ woods, about the 
beginning of June, some four years ago, 
I met with a case-bearing larva climbing 
up the trunk of a beech tree. The case 
was formed of a somewhat heart-shaped 
piece of leaf folded over, sealed along the 
edge, and open at both ends. I took 
home with me some leaves in the box in 
which I had put the larva, on which to 
feed it, but on getting home I found 
that it did not require them, as it had 
attached itself somewhat loosely to the 
side of the box. In course of time it 
produced the above-mentioned insect. 
When I made known what I had bred, 
and from the kind of case the larva had 
inhabited, I was assured that it must be 
a mistake, as CE . Jlavifrontella had been 
reared on the Continent, and the case 
which the larva lived in was a curiously 
constructed one. Thus matters have 
stood, owing to my not having been able 
to obtain the case since, until the other 
evening, when my friend Dr. Kuaggs 
showed me both it and the insect just 
bred from it. On comparing notes I find 
that we agree in every particular, as to 
time and place ; and probably some one 
living in the vicinity of beech trees will 
keep a look out for the creature for the 
next week or two. This construction of 
a case by the larva removes the perfect 
insect from among the CEcophora, as 
they feed internally. — John Scoi't, 13, 
Torrington Villas, Lee, SE. ; May 24, 
1861. 
