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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TINEINA. 
COLEOPHORA MENTIONED BY REAUMUR. 
Iu the fourth * Memoire’ of Reaumur’s 
third volume he treats of those larvae of 
our present genus Coleophora which form 
their cases of leaves, and enters minutely 
into the mode of manufacture of these 
cases. 
On plate 7 he figures cases of Luti- 
pennella and of Nigricella ; on plate 8 he 
figures cases of Fuscedinella on elm, and 
cases of a note unknown species , feeding 
on the leaves of Lychnis ; plate 9 is en- 
tirely occupied with figures of the cases 
and larva; of Fuscedinella; at plate 10 
we find figures of the case of Troglo- 
dytella (“ leigne de l'Eupatoire”). 
In the fifth ‘Memoire’ we find a full 
account of the “ teigne a falbalas” on the 
Astragalus, Coleophora serenella, cases of 
which are represented on plate 11. 
In the sixth ‘ Memoire’ Reaumur treats 
of those case-making larvae which con- 
struct their cases of pure silk, and the 
species to which he assigns this character 
are Anatipennella , Palliatella and Cur- 
rucipennella ; the cases of these are 
figured at plate 16. He says that these 
cases are formed entirely of silk, and are 
at first white, but are coloured afterwards 
by a dark secretion of the larva ; he fur- 
ther observes that the case of the young 
larva of Palliatella is very similar to that 
of Anatipennella and has no flaps. I 
should be very glad if any of my readers 
could confirm this remark from their own 
observations. 
Reaumur mentions the larva of Annu- 
latella, which he had often found with its 
case attached to the seeds of A triplex, 
but he gives no figure of it. 
Of the Lychnis-ieeder all that he says 
is that “M. Bernard de Jussieu found a 
species on the leaves of a Lychnis, and 
had a drawing of it made by M. Aubriet.” 
In the explanation of the plate w r e read 
as follows ; — 
“Fig. 19. A magnified view of the 
imago of the larva which feeds on a kind 
of Lychnis. 
“ Fig. 20. The same insect, natural 
size. 
“Figs. 21, 22 and 23 represent the 
larva which feeds on the leaves of Lychnis. 
In fig. 21 it is shown magnified and 
paitly out of its case ; the anterior part 
which is seen is spotted with brown. 
Figs. 22 and 23 show it of the natural 
size and in different positions. 
“ Fig. 24 r< presents a leaf of Lychnis 
attacked by larvae, showing the places 
where the parenchyma has been eaten. 
“ Fig 25. One of these larvae ex- 
tracted from its case, nearly of natural 
size.” 
The form of the case, judging from 
these figures, must be something like 
that of the case of Solitariella. Perhaps 
some reader will be successful in finding 
this long-lost animal. — H.T. Stainton ; 
April 15. 
On the probable duration of Life 
of the Larva; of Coleophora. 
Mr. Edleston lately, when sending me 
some larvae of Coleophora Vilisella, re- 
marked, “ they eat the leaf on the under 
side ; they feed two or three years, and 
when full fed,” &c. 
The idea of a Coleophora larva feeding 
for two or three years struck me as some- 
thing quite novel, and I accordingly 
wrote to Mr. Edleston for further infor- 
mation on the subject. 
The following was his reply: — 
“ Manchester, 
April 21, 1858. 
“ My dear Sir, — I am not at all sur- 
prised that you ask to be convinced of 
my assertion that the larva of Coleo- 
phora vitisella feeds two or three years ; 
of course you must have the facts of the 
case, and judge for yourself. 
