THE ENTOMOLOGJSTS 
AYEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 253.] 
GEACILABU. 
Feom the Flat-bodies to the Gracilaria 
seems almost, by antithesis, a natural 
transition, and as we last week spoke 
of the DepressaricB, so now would we 
turn the attention of our readers to 
those pert, uppish-looking creatures of 
the family of the GracilariidcB. 
We have already sketched out the 
programme of the eighth volume of 
the ‘Natural History of the Tineina’ 
(Vol. VII. being now in the printer’s 
hands), and we contemplate giving the 
histories of fifteen of the genus Ghra- 
cilaria and nine of the genus Ornix, 
but to do this there are several little 
points on which our information at 
present is not as complete as we re- 
quire. 
Respecting Gracilaria Hemidacly- 
lella, which was received last year 
from Professor Frey, — the larva feeding 
in cones on sycamore {Acer pseudo- 
plalarius), — he observes that the larvae 
of both G. Rufipennella and G. Hemi- 
daclylella feed in cones on sycamore, 
and that he is unable to distinguish 
them; and that, with regard to the 
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specimens bred last year, he is still 
uncertain to which species they should 
be referred. This certainly is not a 
very satisfactory state of affairs, and 
we should like, before sending the 
history of this Gracilaria to press, to 
be quite sure to which species the 
history really relates. 
With regard to Gracilaria Pavoniella, 
we are particularly anxious to see 
young feeding larvae, whether in the 
leaves of Margarita Bellidiastrum or 
Aster amellus. 
Gracilaria Imperialella is already 
tolerably notorious, and we believe our 
hopes of obtaining the larva of it must 
now be altogether postponed till next 
year. 
In the genus Ornix we do not yet 
feel perfectly intimate with O. Petio- 
lella, and we shall look anxiously* for 
some larvffi ^of that species at the 
end of September and beginning of 
October, and we are anxious to make 
a personal acquaintance with the larva 
of Ornix Fagivora (the Ornix of the 
beech): we shall keep a sharp look 
out for it in all our peregrinations, 
but in case any of our readers fall 
in with it we shall be glad if they 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1861. 
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