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cer,’ that Mr. Salt has found the Coleo- 
phora of the thistle ; for since I found 
the mined leaves, near Dublin, I have 
never seen a Coleophora- mined thistle- 
leaf. I hope it may prove a new species, 
but I have my doubts about it from what 
I remember of the mine. I fancy it is 
the vagaries of a few eccentric C. Alcyo- 
nipenne.Ua larvae: however, I hope Mr. 
Salt will have considerably more than 
seems to be his usual luck, and breed 
them all, and that they may prove to he 
a new species. — Richard Shield, 12, 
Mansfield. Place , Kentish Town; June 
25, 1856. 
Coleophora of the Thistle. — I have this 
evening found Coleophora Alcyonipen- 
nella feeding upon thistles, some leaves 
of which were more blotched than ever I 
saw the leaves of Centaurea nigra. — C. S. 
Gregson , Edge Lane, Old Swan ; June 
27, 1856. 
Coleophora of the Rhamnus. — These 
case-bearers prefer plants of the Rham- 
nus frangula that are sheltered, and yet 
not too much shaded by trees : I did 
not find one on an exposed plant. The 
larvae are more likely to be met with 
under the leaves of lower branches, as 
only one of those I found was near the 
upper part of the shrub. The blotches 
are oval, have a glazed appearance, and 
an edge of bi'own when not quite fresh, 
the centre being light brown or dirty 
white : there are, usually, many blotches 
on the same leaf. — S. C. Tress Beale, 
Ivy Court , Tenterden ; June 28, 1856. 
Chauliodus llligerellus (Lep.). — I am 
“ ever too late ; ” and now behold the 
deserted habitations of llligerellus : I 
could have gathered hundreds of them ; 
but it was “ too late.” I find, however, 
there is one larva. — R. Drane, 22, Fre- 
derick Street, Cardiff ; June 30, 1856. 
Mysterious mining-larva: — I send you 
a larva mining the leaves of the maple, 
which I found at Daren th Wood: when 
full-fed it constructs a circular case out 
of the upper cuticle, and a layer of the 
lower cuticle of the leaf, not forming a 
hole through the leaf, as a piece of the 
lower epidermis is still left untouched. 
Can it be anything allied to Elachista 
Treilschldella P—C. Miller; June 29, 
1856. 
Solution of Enigma No. 21. — T have 
bred Tinea histrigella from larvae which 
miue the leaves of the birch in the 
autumn in a long straight line, and then 
cut only a small oval case, in which they 
descend to the ground, and become pupae 
without feeding again, the perfect insect 
emerging the following summer. I could 
have told Mr. John Scott what his rush- 
feeding larva would produce, as I worked 
out the transformations of Bactra lanceo- 
lana years ago, and have a series of 
drawings of the species in its various 
stages, which will appear in my ‘ Illus- 
trations.’ The larva is green, with black 
head and tubercles, and the pupa amber- 
yellow and remarkably straight and cy- 
lindrical. It completes its transforma- 
tions in a white silken folliculus within 
the stem of the rush, near the root. In 
reply to Mr. Westwood’s enquiry, I have 
bred either Endopisa nehritana or E. 
pisana from the larvae which feed in the 
pods of the garden-pea ; but the specimen 
rendered itself indistinguishable in its 
attempts to escape, before I discovered 
that it was out. I mean, however, to try 
again this year — II. F. Logan, Dudding- 
stone, Edinburgh ; June 30, 1856. 
Anybia Langiella (Lep.) again . — I 
seud you some larvae in the leaves of the 
Circaea lutetiana : I met with them yes- 
terday near Exeter, but only in one 
small spot under the shade of a wall: 
when 1 found them most of the larva; 
were out of the mines resting beneath 
the leaves; but when night came on 
they all returned to the leaves again. — 
E. Parfitt, 4, Wcirfield Place , St. 
Leonard's, Exeter ; June 30, 1856. 
Another Neiv British Tinea. — Yester- 
day I revisited the Epi labium ungusli fo- 
lium on Box Hill, and took several spe- 
