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*Sitona lineata, 
„ regensteineusis, 
Apion miniatum, 
* „ frumentarium, 
„ vorax, 
*Cionus Scropbulariae, 
„ Thapsi? 
*Phaedon fastuosa, 
* „ Betulae, 
* » polygoni, 
* „ marginella, 
Byturus tomentosus, 
Clytus arietis, 
Coccinellid® (various). 
Those marked with an asterisk are in 
duplicate, and I shall be happy to send 
relaxed specimens to any one willing to 
pay the postage. — R. Tyekb, jun., Hill 
House, Eye, Suffolk ; June 24. 
Lixus angustatus. — I took two of these 
fine insects, on the 20th inst., from thistles, 
in St. Leonard’s Forest, near here ; one 
was quite a recent specimen, and was 
completely enveloped in the beautiful 
yellow powder which colours the insect; 
but, what with my rough handling, what 
with the insect’s being rolled about in 
the box in which it was brought home, 
and what with my foolishly killing it in 
hot water, he and his companion are now 
a respectable brown. If I take others, 
as I hope I shall, in the autumn, I shall 
try the method recommended by the Rev. 
Mr. Dawson (‘ Zoologist,’ 2554), and 
bring them home in quills. — Rev. H. 
Gore, Rusper Rectory , Sussex ; June 27. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Larva of Tinea Merdella . — I now send 
you the account of my breeding T. Mer- 
della, which I promised in my last. The 
specimen you kindly named for me in the 
winter was taken, as I told you, in my 
school-desk, on the 18th of June, 1858. 
As I was turning out this desk, on the 
24 ill of February, of this year, I found at 
the bottom of it, under a lot of papers, a 
woollen pen-wiper, which one of my 
daughters had given me on my birthday, 
with a very gay butterfly worked on one 
side of it, but chiefly composed of grey 
cloth. As I generally use the inside of 
my coat-tail to wipe my pen upon, this 
pen-wiper had been neglected, and indeed 
forgotten, but I soon perceived that this 
very circumstance had made it an object 
of peculiar attention to some of my little 
friends, whose frass and woollen cases 
were soon brought to light. Of course 
Merdella's appearance last year in the 
same desk flashed upon my mind in a 
moment, and I at once concluded that 
these were Merdella larvae. I searched 
the whole desk, but found that the pen- 
wiper contained all that was mortal of my 
discovery, and I took it and put it, as it 
was, in a jam-pot, and covered it with a 
piece of glass. A few days afterwards I 
ventured to cut open one of the cases 
(there were about five in all), and as I 
was thus engaged at one end out at the 
other crept a larva, of which the fol- 
lowing is the description : — Legs sixteen ; 
head shining, brownish black ; first seg- 
ment ditto, divided down the middle by 
a straight white band ; body entirely 
white, with a few white hairs. On the 
4th of June I had the pleasure of seeing, 
on the top of the pen-wiper, a perfect 
imago, reposing in silken freshness, which 
I succeeded in setting to my satisfaction. 
I have not yet seen another, but I live in 
hopes. Perceiving that the green Ger- 
man wool, which formed the ground on 
which the butterfly was worked, and that 
gorgeous and unnatural representation 
itself, were alike untouched by Merdella, 
who, you know, is very quakerish in her 
costume (and for that reason perhaps her 
larvae preferred the grey cloth, showing 
thus early their peculiar taste), when I 
removed the pen-wiper I substituted for 
it some scraps of grey cloth, of precisely 
the same pattern and fabric, and covered 
it with papers, as before ; and this I have 
