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me to tbe belief it was that insect. I am, 
however, indebted to tbe kindness of Mr. 
Shepherd, who called upon me with four 
specimens of Daplidice , convincing me 
at once that those I bad taken were only 
females of Cardqmines. I trust my 
statement did notgive unnecessary trouble 
to others in searching for tbe species in 
tbe locality named. — H. W. Killikg- 
back; September 2, 1856. 
Lasiocampa Rubi and Saturnia Pa- 
vonia-Minur. — Please inform me what 
peculiar care or treatment the larvae of 
Lasiocampa Rubi require. [They require 
to be kept through tbe winter out of 
doors in a cage exposed to tbe weather.] 
I have some of them and some of tbe 
larvae and pupae of Saturnia Pavonia- 
minor to spare ; and as my collection is 
nought I should be much obliged to any- 
body for anything instead of them. — 
Rev., The Incumbent, Hornby , Lan- 
cashire; September 2, 1856. 
CEcophoru, jlavimaculella (Lep.). — I 
have bred many species during the last 
month from seeds of Angelica sylvestris 
collected last October. — R. S. Edleston, 
Bowden, Cheshire; September 2, 1856. 
Gelechia Gemmella (Lep.). — Several 
specimens of this pretty and most 
variable species resting on the trunks of 
oaks; occasionally on the leaves and 
branches : along with them occurred a 
few of Psoricoptera gibbosella. — Ibid. 
Is any Species of Coleophora double- 
brooded ?■ — Mr. Stainton, in his “ Glance 
at the Present State of our Knowledge of 
the Coleophora,” in the ‘ Zoologist,’ page 
4032, in remarking on the statement of 
of Herr Mann in the Linn. Ent. iv. 272, 
on the larvae of C. Onobrychiella, that 
“this species occurs in June and Sep- 
tember near Vienna, in dry places where 
its food-plant, Onobrychis, grows : several 
years back they were bred very plenti- 
fully,” says, “ It seems impossible to 
imagine any species of Coleophora double- 
brooded, so that this species must keep 
out for a very long time, or the ‘June 
and September’ must apply to two dif- 
ferent species.” Now to the point: C. 
discordella appears the end of June and 
beginning of July, the larvae having com- 
menced feeding the September and 
October previous, and, becoming full-fed 
about the succeeding May, appears the 
following June in the perfect state. 1 
have now in my breeding-glass six larvae 
of C. discordella, two of which were taken 
on Salisbury Crags, nearly full-fed, on 
the 17th of August, and spun up about 
the end of the following week. On the 
Sunday following (August 24th), I took 
five more larvae of the same species on 
Arthur’s Seat, and they are now ready for 
their final change. Now can it be sup- 
posed that there are perfect insects in 
June, 1856, and feeding larvae the end 
of August, 1856, of the brood of larvae 
hatched September, 1855 ? or are the 
larvae taken nearly fed up in August the 
produce of the eggs laid by the early 
specimens of the June insects, which will 
produce their imago in September? while 
the eggs laid by those specimens of the 
June brood, which were developed later, 
produce larvae which feed in the follow- 
ing autumn iu company with the larvae 
hatched from the eggs of those specimens 
which have been developed in September 
from the early laid eggs of the early de- 
veloped specimens of the June brood, 
thus accounting for the fact of finding 
Coleophora larvaa in different stages of 
growth, some being nearly full-fed, and 
others half-fed and quite infantine iu their 
dimensions, at one and the same time. 
Of course I have assumed that the larvae 
I now have will produce perfect insects 
this month, from the period of its re- 
maining iu the pupa stale being, in the 
first brood, about a month; so that I 
consider C. discordella double-brooded, 
although the second bears no proportion 
in number to the first. I found a num- 
ber of dry empty cases attached to the 
stones near which the food-plant 
grew. — R. Shield, 9, Shrub Place, 
