THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
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ADDENDA. 
Last week in reviewing “ A Nat- 
ural Eistory of British. Moths,” we 
omitted to state that we have had the 
pleasure of seeing some more plates 
of Noctiue for the above work, as 
they came from the engraver’s hands, 
before being colored, and are very 
much delighted with them. They 
certainly are exquisite specimens of 
art. We only hope they have as 
wide a circulation as they deserve. 
Mr. Morris need desire nothing more. 
The Engraver is, we believe, Mr. 
Edward Brown of York. Ed. W. E. 
OBSERVATION S. 
Neuhopteka. 
Curtis mentions P erla grandis in 
his guide, and I once asked him about 
it. He forgot when he had seen it. 
When on Dartmoor once, I beat a 
very large insect of this kind out of 
some large fern (osmunda regain.) 
It nearly crossed the river, but re- 
turned higher up, where, from thick- 
ness of undergrowth I could not mark 
it as it came down, and had to take 
a walk beyond the bush, where I 
held my net on one side of the 
osmunda and beat the wrong side and, 
it finally crossed the river out of fur- 
ther mischief. On looking over the 
foreign insects in the British Museum 
I observed a very large Perla, and 
observing a ticket, I got permission 
to see what was there. “Dartmoor’’ 
on it proved it to be the lost insect? 
and it was placed in the British 
Drawer and was no doubt the fellow 
to the one I saw. Walker gives it as 
synonymous with P. marginata, but 
I think the size is too large for that. 
The expanse of P. grandis is very 
nearly three inches and P. marginata 
only two inches — of P. Ceplialotes 
about one and a half only. — J. C. 
Dale, Gian. TFootton, Sherhorne, 
Dorset, Nov. 25, 1862. 
lepidoptera. 
E. apicipunctella. — In my commu- 
nication dated Nov. 9. 1862 (AYeekly 
Entomologist P. 1 20) is a statement 
which I find requires explanation, as 
it has puzzled some of my friends who 
are well acquainted with Micro-lepi- 
doptera. I there stated that I had 
found the larva of Elachista Apici- 
punctella under a web in oak leaves. 
I now see that this statement carries 
with it a totally different impression 
to what I intended. It makes it ap- 
pear as though the Elaclvista larva 
had fed on oak, an idea which never 
entered my head, knowing as I do 
the grass-mining habits of the family. 
It was quite evident to me, that the 
larva on becoming full-fed, had 
quitted its mine in the grass or carex 
on which it had fed, and had 'selected 
a fallen oak leaf as the most conve- 
nient place for forming a cocoon and 
undergoing its transformation. Eor 
this purpose the hollow along the 
mid-rib of an oak leaf is well adapted, 
and across this the transparent threads 
forming the cocoon were drawn. The 
leaf itself, of course, showed no sign 
