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up in a slight web between two leaves. 
Tlie. larva of Lasiocampa Trifolii are 
now feeding on the sand-hills at Crosby 
and Wallasey. — C. S. Gregson, Edge 
Lane, Old Siuan, Liverpool; May 3, 
1856. 
Bupalus piniarius. — I took two fine 
males of this insect yesterday: I never 
before saw the moth before the middle of 
June. In the ‘ Zoologist,’ p. 51 LO, Mr. 
Stone complains of the absence of the 
female of this insect: if be will wait till 
the males are getting rather faded, and 
then throw stones into the higher branches 
of the firs, which the insects inhabit, he 
will probably dislodge quantities of the 
female. Till I tried the experiment I 
never found one female ; after I had re- 
course to it, I have often taken a score 
or more in half an hour. — P. H. Newn- 
HAM, Stoke Road ; May 6, 1856. 
Gelechia niyricostella . — Yesterday I 
bred a specimen of this insect from a 
green larva found by Herr Schmid last 
September, feeding between united leaves 
of Medicayo saliva. — H. T. Stainton ; 
May 7, 1856. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TINEINA. 
I wish now to call the attention of my 
readers to a species of Coleophora which 
has not yet been found in this country, 
but the discovery of which I hope to be 
able to announce before the close of the 
present month. 
The insect to which I allude is Coleo- 
phora serenella : it feeds on the leaves of 
the wild liquorice or sweet milk-vetch 
{Astragalus glycyphyllos ) , and makes very 
conspicuous, because very white, blotches 
in the elegant pinnate leaves of that 
plant ; if you are looking for it, it is im- 
possible to miss it, if it is there. On 
turning over the leaf which is blotched 
you will know at once that you have got the 
genuine article, and that it is “ all serene,” 
by the singular whilish-puckered case 
of the larva, with loose whitish flounces 
attached to it, compared by Reaumur to 
furbelows, and you will wonder how it 
happens that you never found it before. 
The plant grows freely, I believe, in some 
parts of Darenth Wood, but wherever it 
grows it should be searched, and I enter- 
tain no doubt that, before the close of the 
month, several of my readers will have 
sent me this larva. The plant being rather 
a conspicuous one will not be easily over- 
looked where it does occur, and those who 
may not be deeply versed in Botany 
themselves may probably be able to get 
some botanical friend to point out to them 
the precise spot where the Astragalus is 
to be found. 
There is another Coleophora on the 
same plant, which would also be an addi- 
tion to our Fauna, C. Astrayalella, of 
which the case, much resembling in form 
that of C. analipennella, is readily recog- 
nised by its pale buff colour; but it is, I 
believe, rarely found in the spring, the 
larva attaining its maximum growth in 
the autumn. — H. T. Stainton; May 5, 
1856. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Monday, May 5th, 1856. — W. W. 
Saunders, Esq., President, in the chair. 
The President announced that, at the 
last meeting of the Entomological Society 
of France, their late President, Mr.Curtis, 
had been elected an Honorary Member 
of that Society. 
Petasia nuueculosa. — Mr. S. Stevens 
exhibited the specimen of this insect 
sent him by Mr. Foxcroft (already 
noticed in our third number at p. 24), 
and read a letter from Mr. Foxcroft ex- 
plaining the mode in which this and 
other specimens had been captured. The 
plan was as follows : — the insects were 
found at rest high up the trunks of the 
