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extended on tbe flat surface of a leaf. It 
is of the form usual in the genus Pam- 
phila, and it has also the two snowy 
spots beneath, as in the larvae of Lineola 
and Sylvanus. It is a pale green, with 
a darker dorsal line, edged with a yel- 
lowish Hue on each side, and enclosing a 
paler central line. Along the side is a 
narrow yellow line above and a broad one 
beneath ; the two yellow lines on the 
back are prolonged as far as the middle 
of the green head, and run to the end of 
the rounded anal shield, which is nar- 
rowly edged with yellow. Towards the 
end of June the larva spins together two 
leaves with a few white silk threads, and 
becomes a slender, agile pupa, the pecu- 
liarities of which, however, I had no op- 
portunity of observing. In a fortnight 
two males made their appearance at 
Vienna, I having taken the pupse with 
me on my journey. — Peofessoe Zellee, 
Meseritz ; August 8. 
Rhodophma rubrotibiella , Mann. — I 
have been quite unsuccessful, both this 
season and last, iu meeting with this 
species, though I worked the locality in 
which it was common in 1859, night after 
night. Cannot some person find it among 
his supposed series of Tumidella P Mr. 
Edleston informed me, some time since, 
that he had taken or bred it from the 
moors near Manchester, but I have heard 
nothing further respecting this locality. 
An old specimen is in Mr. Shepherd’s 
collection, which he obtained from the 
late Mr. Bentley, and I lately detected 
another in the British Museum; it 
formed part of Stephens’s series of 
Tumidella. Both of these may have 
been taken in my locality, near Forest 
Hill. — R. M‘ Lachlan, Forest Hill; 
Augtist 9. 
Ornix Pfaffenzelleri bred . — When I 
wrote ray volume on the ‘ Tineen und 
Pterophoren der Schweiz,’ I only knew a 
single male specimen of the above-named 
species, and did not possess at all the 
northern Ornix interrupiella of Zetter- 
stedt. Last year, through the bounty of 
Dr. Wocke and Dr. Staudinger, I re- 
ceived several of the latter species, and 
lately I have had the pleasure of rearing 
O. Pfaffenzelleri from the larva, and a 
careful comparison of it with O. inler- 
ruplella leaves no doubt of their specific 
distinctness. The former, which is, at all 
events, nearly allied to the Lapland spe- 
cies, and similarly marked on the anterior 
wings, is rather smaller, more slender, 
with narrower wings and more brilliant 
silvery spots on the black-brown anterior 
wings, which do not show in the hinder- 
marginal cilia the broad white dash of 
0. interrupiella. Besides this the two 
species difier in the colour of the tuft on 
the head. On the rocky cliff’s of the 
Engadine there grows a small thornless 
shrub, from three to five feet high, with 
small, oval, somewhat thick leaves, and 
small red berries, Cotoneaster vulgaris, 
Lindl. This is the food-plant of Ornix 
Pfaffenzelleri, which first mines a leaf, 
and then rolls up another leaf so as to 
form a habitation similar to that con- 
structed by O. Torquillella or O. guUea, 
in which it passes the remainder of its 
larval existence; afterwards it spins a 
brown cocoon, like O. guttea. The larva 
occurs at the beginning and middle of 
J uly, and I bred the perfect insect early 
in August. In reference to O. guttea, 
the near connection between the apple 
tree and the Cotoneaster is interesting. 
The natural history of O. interruptella 
will probably soon be published by Dr. 
Wocke in the ‘ EntomologischeZeitung.’ 
— PiioEESsoE Feey, ZuricA ; Aug. 13. 
Ornix Scutulatella bred . — Towards the 
end of June, and in the beginning of 
July, I found several Ornix mines on 
Betula torfacea, in swampy places. A 
few weeks afterwards I had the good 
fortune to breed a flne specimen of 
Ornix Scutulatella. Dr. Wocke has also 
bred it from birch leaves at Breslau. — 
Ibid. 
