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service ; we want bred specimens with 
the cases and food-plant indicated. One 
species with its history will be worth 
more than twenty whose histories are 
unknown. 
Family X. Eeachistid.e. 
In this family the genus Cosmopteryx 
is widely represented, as I have speci- 
mens from Port Natal, and from Cal- 
cutta, and the occurrence of these insects 
amoug the very few captures made at 
those places certainly implies that Cos- 
mopteryx is more plentiful in hot climates 
than here. 
Very queer things may be expected 
allied to Laverna and Chrysoclista, some 
totally different from any of our existing 
genera, and with bright coloured bodies. 
I have more than one Indian species 
with yellow bodies. 
Of the true Elachist®, though, no 
doubt, the temperate regions of the 
globe are their favourite habitat, yet 
there seems no reason to despair of 
liuding some in the hotter parts of the 
globe, especially since Mr. Atkinson has 
bred an Indian species from the Bamboo. 
Blotches made by the larvae of the genus 
Tischeria would so readily attract atten- 
tion that it is scarcely necessary to 
allude to them. 
Family XI. LmiocoLLETiDiE. 
Every new Papilionaceous plant should 
be carefully examined for the mines of 
Lithocollelis larvae. Mr. Atkinson’s first 
and second species at Calcutta were both 
on plants of the natural order, Legumi- 
uosae; and it is sufficient to remind one 
of Vicia Sepium , Genista , broom, tk e., to 
show that their love for the Papiliouaceai 
is not peculiar to warm climates. Of 
course all leaves of trees and shrubs will 
be carefully examined, and when the 
species cannot be obtained in the perfect 
state, dried leaves with the mines of the 
larvae would be very acceptable. 
Family XII. Lyonetid,*. 
To what extent this family is re- 
presented abroad I am unable to say ; 
but if Seitella has a brilliant tropical 
brother, I should much like to see it. 
A species of Bucculatrix has been bred 
from the coffee-plant ; and if an oppor- 
tunity occurs of investigating a coffee 
plantation, it would be very desirable to 
to try and re-discover this insect, and to 
ascertain by examination of the larva 
and cocoon, whether I am correct in 
referring it to the genus Bticculati-ix. 
Family XII L Nepxiculid^e. 
We have no knowledge that this family 
exists at all in tropical climates: hence 
the first mine that is found, whether it 
be a gallery or a blotch, will be of great 
interest. — H. T. S. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TINEINA. 
The Genus Nepxicula. 
In the first volume we gave the natural 
histories of twenty-one out of our thirty- 
one (then known) British species, viz. : — 
Acetos®, 
Angulifasciella, 
Anomalella, 
Aurelia, 
Catharticella, 
Floslactella, 
Ignubilella, 
Malella, 
Marginicolella, 
Microtheriella, 
Oxyacanthella, 
Plagicolella, 
Prunetorum, 
Pygmarella, 
Ruficapitella, 
Salicis, 
Septembrellu, 
bubbimactdella, 
Tityrella, 
