THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 149 
Collected last autumn. The lawa is 
dirty white, with numerous black and 
red spots. They require to he kept in a 
box well closed up, or they will escape. 
A piece of old bark is the best to get 
them to form their cocoons in groups ; 
others will persist in forming them in 
odd places; to wit, three managed to 
make an entrance into the cocoon of 
Megacephala, made in the corner of a 
breeding-box ; all four made their ap- 
pearance in due time. — R. S. Edleston, 
Mancheslei' ; August 3. 
Torlrix Viridana. — Collecting a large 
number of pupae, made up in the oak- 
leaves, a great number produced this 
pest; about the last that came out was 
the primrose variety — a male. — Ibid. 
Diplodoma Marginepunctella. — In the 
‘Intelligencer,’ No. 147, July 23, 1859, 
I gave ihe result of my experiment on 
trying M. Fologne’s discovery, — “the 
larvae are at times carnivorous,” — keeping 
the larvae in a glass jar, giving them 
bruised beetles, earwigs, &c., for their 
carnivorous propensities, a sprig of haw- 
thorn for their vegetable diet ; “ the 
original contents of the jar undisturbed ; 
to wit, pieces of old bark with lichen, 
decayed wood and a little mould from 
the tree roots.” They continued to feed 
till November, when, taking up their 
positions, they remained as fixtures. 
Wheu spring returned I expected to see 
them on the move, but observing no 
signs concluded they were in the pupa 
state. At the end of June two males 
and two females appeared; in getting 
them out of the jar I was astonished to 
see one of the largest cases moving 
about — a fellow I had noticed for mouths 
attached to the glass with his head 
downwards. Placing their long-kept- 
back hawthorn in the jar had the efi'ect 
of soon starting on the move several 
cases; the larvm eating hawthorn vora- 
ciously it is quite evident a number of 
them intend living another year. Lately 
I observed one of the larva eating in the 
abdomen of an old dried Noctua, and 
another busy at work in the thorax of a 
dead Villica; if it adopts part of the 
wing as an adornment to the case, it will 
have a brilliant effect. One fellow is 
moving about with the segment of an 
earwig’s body admirably fixed in the 
middle of the case. At the end of June 
and July some twenty or thirty moths 
made their appearance ; the majority 
are far larger than those I have taken 
on the wing — the effect, no doubt, of 
high feeding. In the same jar 1 bred a 
female CEcophora Fuscescens exceedingly 
large: how the larva got there is a 
puzzle. — Ibid. 
A new Culeophora. — On Wednesday 
last Mr. Sayer brought to me for inspec- 
tion a fine series of a Coleophoru allied to 
Fuscedinella, but apparently quite dis- 
tinct, On examining the cases from 
which these specimens had been bred, 
I found they were extremely like the 
cases of a birch-feeding species (Enigma 
No. 37), of which I have lately bred a 
single specimen ; but Mr. Sayer assured 
me that his cases were found on elm. 
The form of the case will readily dis- 
tinguish this novelty from every other 
named species: it may be identical with 
the unnamed birch-feeder, but that is a 
nice point, which I do not at present 
feel competent to determine. The case 
is something in the style of Viminetella, 
and distinctly of two colours, hut it is 
much stumpier and stouter than any 
Viminctella case I ever met with. The 
imago is longer-winged than Fuscedi- 
nella. As the best character is furnished 
by the case I would suggest the name of 
Coleophoru Bicolorella. — H.T. Stainton, 
August 4. 
Elachista Paludum. — I have lately 
bred two specimens of this insect from 
larva) sent to me a month ago by Mr. 
Winter, of Aldeby. Mr. Winter has also 
himself bred specimens of the same in- 
sect : hence its double-broodedness is now 
established. — I bid. 
