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Tliere can be no doubt that the object of 
allraciion was a virgin female hidden 
therein, though this is the first recorded 
instance of a Micro “ assembling,” unless 
the swarming of Adda viridella may be 
considered such. I went on with my 
sugaring, and on returning in about a 
quarter of an hour (there had been a 
smart shower in the interval), could see 
but two or three half- drowned individuals, 
which, I suppose, being disappointed in 
their first love, or their ardour having 
been washed out by the rain, had not 
heart to go in search of fresh conquests. 
I may add that in no other part of the 
wood was a specimen to be seen. — R. 
M‘LACHL.iN, Forest Hill. 
A new Coleophora Larva, — I have 
lately received from the Rev. H. Burney 
a new Coleophora larva ; it was found 
feeding on the seeds of Slellaria gra- 
minea, the cylindrical whitish case being 
attached to the capsule, and the larva 
boring into the interior, quite in the 
style of the rush-feeding larva of C/espiti- 
tiella. Not having a supply of Slellaria 
graininea handy, I offered these larvae 
Slellaria media (the common chickweed), 
which they attacked with avidity. When 
I the case is protruding from the calyx of an 
I upright capsule, it looks excessively like 
a dried flower, and would thus readily 
escape observation. — H. T. Stainton; 
September 10. 
Larva of Phtheochroa rugosana. — In a 
. recent uumber of the ‘ Stettin Entomo- 
logische Zeitung’ (1860, p. 110—126) 
«are some notes by Carl von Heyden, ex- 
tracted from his Entomological Diaries; 
.amongst these w'e find (p. 117) the fol- 
lowing notice of the larva of Phtheochroa 
rugosana, and it appears that that inde- 
ffatigable entomologist noted this down 
ttwenty-seven years ago, — namely, in the 
year 1833 : — 
“Larva 16-footed, very thick, slightly 
■shining; rather wrinkled, with whitish 
. -aised dots, each bearing a short hair; 
I'.inicolorous green, of the colour of the 
clusters of flowers of its food-plant. Its 
skin is very thin, so that its interior is 
visible. The head is rather narrower 
than the second segment; the latter is 
shining and rather of darker green than 
the rest of the body. 
“ The pupa is yellowish green, almost 
lustreless, rather thick, anteriorly blunt ; 
wing-cases prone, half the length of the 
body ; the upper part of the segments 
clothed with transverse rows of hardly 
perceptible serratures; the last segment 
with two small lateral teeth and some 
very fine bristly little hooks. 
“ The larva lives round Frankfort, in 
the last half of June and beginning of 
July, between the united flower-tufts of 
Bryonia dioica, where it feeds especially 
on the unripe (and then very small) 
berries, so that only their outer shell is 
left. When about to undergo its meta- 
morphosis it contracts in length and be- 
comes brownish on the back. It then 
leaves its abode and constructs a rather 
attenuated, thin, paper-like, whitish co- 
coon between leaves, partially attached 
to the stem, or to hark, &c. In general 
the larva hybernates and is difficult to 
rear: the perfect insect appears in the 
May of the following year; but once I 
bred a moth the same year, at the end of 
-4ugust.” 
I trust the above notice will enable 
some of the English entomologists to 
breed this beautiful species. — H. T. 
Stainton. 
EXCHANGE. 
Exchange.— 1 have been spending a 
few days in Chorley this week, and I 
have taken sixty-six specimens of Gor- 
tyna Flavago, which 1 shall be glad to 
exchange for 
Arctia Villica, 
Agriopis Apriliua, 
Thyatira Batis. 
