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burying itself in triturated flowers of the 
latter for the same purpose. The leaf- 
feeders, however, appeared in the begin- 
ning of July, whereas the denizens of the 
umbels were not found until the end of the 
month, and necessarily so, as the plant 
was not sooner in blossom. I should ob- 
serve that, although the Angelica grows 
profusely here, yet the locality wherein I 
found the insect was confined to a radius 
of about a quarter of a mile, nor could I 
meet with one specimen elsewhere. Of 
all the larvae I know this is by far the 
most agile; you can scarcely touch his 
abode before he rushes out of it at railway 
speed. In fact, I at first lost many owing 
to this circumstance, and fancied the 
leaves had been empty, but on discovering 
my error I resorted to the plan of holding 
my net under the spray or flower before 
I began to search it, and I soon found 
the good effect of this mode, as they 
generally dropped into the net, and I had 
them safe. It is a pretty, very slender, 
rather bright green caterpillar, with darker 
duskyish stripes down the back and sides, 
and its tubercles are not blackened. 
*Cnicella. This larva feeds in the 
tops of Eryngium campestre about the 
middle of May ; so the search for it must 
be postponed till next year. 
Conterminella. This larva feeds also 
in May, in the terminal shoots of osiers. 
*Culcitella. We have noticed this 
larva in another column to-day; it feeds 
in May on Stachys recta. 
* Dictamnella. The larva feeds at the 
end of May and beginning of June on 
Dictamnus albus. 
Douglasella. This larva feeds on one 
of the Umbelliferce, in J une ; but at pre- 
sent no more definite information can be 
given. 
*Ferulce. The larva of this Sicilian 
species feeds in April on the leaves of 
Ferula communis. 
*Heydenii. Last year Professor Zeller 
visited the Styrian Alps, and discovered 
the larva of this alpine species. “ A Dc- 
pressaria larva was abundant on a white 
Vmbellifer. I collec/ed a great number, 
though in unfavourable weather. When 
I returned to Vienna the 1 plant was de- 
cayed and the larvae dead ; but four had 
attained the pnpa state, and from these 
I bred two specimens of D. Heydenii .” 
*Laterella. The larva of this species 
feeds on the leaves of the blue corn-flower 
( Centaurea Cyanus ), at the beginning of 
June. We cannot help fancying it would 
be readily found in this country, if its 
food-plant were searched at the proper 
time. 
Libanolidella. This feeds on the leaves 
of Athamanta Libanotis at the beginning 
of June. We have twice received the 
larvae from abroad, but on each occasion 
the food had “ gone squash” in transitu. 
H. T. Stainton. 
June 25, 1859. 
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