132 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
alive. — T. Floud, Petersfield, Hants ; 
July 14. 
Fumea Nilidella. — During my ento- 
mological excursions this season I have 
taken a great number of the cases of this 
species, which I put together in a small 
box, laying them singly along the bottom. 
Three males, ten females and twenty 
ichneumon flies (of three different kinds) 
have made their appearance. I used to 
look into the box two or three times a-day, 
and take out what was in the imago state. 
On looking this morning I found several 
of the cases covered with what looked like 
mites in cheese ; presently the mass spread 
itself over the box, and, in the motion, 
each individual looked like a minute 
pillar of pith walking on its end : on 
placing one of them under a microscope 
a wonderful object presented itself; a 
thimble, two inches long and three 
quarters of an inch wide at the opening, 
elaborately made, as it would appear, of 
tissue-paper of variegated colours, was 
supported by something inside (like Jack 
in the Green) ; presently the thimble fell 
back, and a caterpillar, very like Cossus 
Liyniperda, crept half out, walked along 
upon the six front legs, the thimble top- 
pling about unsteadily, till at last it ex- 
tinguished the tenant; a rest, the thimble 
fell back and the walking commenced, &c. 
Are these the young Fumea Nilidella ? 
If so, do they live through the winter in 
these cases and feed up in May and 
June? [Yes; each makes its own case 
as soon as it quits the egg.] — E. Teakle, 
Gainsborough. 
Coleophora Saturatella. — I have bred 
this species from the cases on broom I 
found at Wanstead.— Charles Miller, 
17, Silurian Terrace , Broke Road , Ral- 
ston ; July 12. 
Coleophura binotapennella bred. — I 
have the satisfaction of recording that 
the larvae found by me last October at 
Brighton (‘ Annual,’ p. 163) has produced 
the above species. It will be remembered 
that the larva bored down the stems of 
the Salicornia. It was very abundant, 
and no doubt if others search for it this 
year they will be as fortunate as myself. 
It remains in the larva state throughout 
the winter, and changes to pupa in the 
beginning of June. — John Scott, South- 
field Villas, Middlesbro -on-Tees ; July 1 1. 
Coleophora argenlula bred. — I also 
found the larva of this species very 
plentiful at Brighton last year, and am 
now rearing it. Judging from the cases 
I collected and the insects reared, it does 
not seem so much infested with ichneu- 
mons as many of its brethren. — Ibid. 
Diplodoma marginipunclella. — The 
communication from M. Fologne, of 
Brussels, in this week’s ‘ Intelligencer,’ 
that “ the larvae of D. marginipunclella 
are at times carnivorous,’’ is an astound- 
ing fact, and I congratulate him on his 
cleverness in discovering it. On the 9th 
of April I found several cases, one and 
two years old, and again on the I4tb and 
28th of May, and on the 9th of July ; 
I placed them in a glass jar, and fed 
them with the bark of poplar, covered 
with decayed lichen, and along with it 
some sandy grit and rubbish from the 
base : some ought to have made their 
appearance by this time in the perfect 
stale, but such is not the case. On 
reading the ‘ Intelligencer’ last evening 
1 determined to prove M. Fologne’s as- 
sertion, and placed in the jar three or 
four beetles ( Pterostichus ) half-killed, and 
some seven or eight house-flies killed. 
Now for the result: this morning each 
of the house-flies was in the jaws of a 
larva ; some had hold of them by the 
head, others had fixed on the abdomen ; 
one of the beetles had died on its back, 
two cases were underneath, and two 
cases in close proximity to another beetle 
still alive. I found these cases on two 
poplar trees near here, and brought away 
all l could find each journey, — some on 
the boles, others on the ground; each 
visit produced more or less, and I have 
no doubt in my own mind that what I 
