198 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
sources. Professor Archer observed this 
was one of the most valuable and in- 
teresting branches of Entomology which 
could be pursued in an economic museum, 
particularly in a commercial port like 
Liverpool, where so much damage had 
been done, and was being done, to the 
imports in cur warehouses. 
A TRUE STORY. 
(Continued from p. 180.) 
On the receipt, from M. Fologne, on 
the 22nd of February, of the cases of 
Coleophora olivaceella, we immediately 
recognised them as the ochreous cases we 
had more than once collected, but which 
we had reputed only a variety of the case 
of Soiitariella. We referred to our col- 
lection, and there amongst the row of 
Soiitariella we detected at a glance this 
peculiar case, and also a queer-looking 
specimen bred from it, and another bred 
from a similar case. 
We removed the glass from the drawer, 
took up each specimen, and inspected 
the under side of each label. 
S. 1014 S. 1255 
54 54 
were the hieroglyphics affixed to them. 
S. stands for Stainton, 54 for 1854; re- 
ferring then to our journal for that year 
we read as follows : — 
1014. Coleophora soiitariella, July 6. 
Bred from Cerastium vulgatum. 
Wing. 
1 255. Coleophora soiitariella, J uly 6 — 
12. Bred from Cerastium vul- 
gatum. Wing. 
Though bred from Cerastium vulgatum , 
and though the difference of the case 
had previously attracted some attention, 
these specimens were thus recorded, 
without any mark of doubt, as Soiitari- 
ella. 
In our larva journal for 1854, we find, 
under date April 26th, the following 
entry : — 
“ Towards Beckenham ; Wing found 
a new Coleophora case (browner and 
broader than Soiitariella ) on Cerastium 
vulgatum .” 
Here then, in these few entries, was a 
complete and satisfactory history of the 
specimens, which had been neglected for 
nearly six years. 
In 1857 Mr. Wilkinson, of Scar- 
borough, met with some of these ochreous 
cases, and forwarded them for our 
opinion ; we replied that it was only a 
variety of the case of Soiitariella. 
Shortly afterwards Mr. Wilkinson found 
the smaller and darker cases of Chalco- 
grammella on Cerastium arvense. In the 
autumn of 1857 we were searching in 
our own neighbourhood for larvae of that 
little getn, and we found between Beck- 
enham and West Wickham a consider- 
able number of small ochreous cases on 
Stellaria holostea ; thinking these might 
be cases of Chalcogra m mella , we for- 
warded some to Mr. Wilkinson for his 
opinion, but he pointed out the dif- 
ferences, and assured us these cases were 
identical with those he had sent us in 
