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COMMUNICATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
Chrysophanus Dispar. — This species 
has again appeared in the feus here; 
I saw four yesterday, but missed them 
all. This morning some men at work 
in the fens knocked down a specimen 
and brought it to me; it was sadly 
spoiled. — W. Winter, Ramvorth ; 
July 20. 
Phyllocnislis Suffusella. — I shall be 
happy to supply applicants with pupae of 
this species — T hos. Brown, 13, King's 
Parade, Cambridge ; July 20. 
Captures at Folkestone. — During a 
short sojourn at Folkestone, from the 
16th to the 20th inst., I was fortunate 
enough to capture five specimens of 
Trochilium Chrysidiforme and fifteen of 
Spilodes Palealis, together with about 
thirty (pupa and imago) of Odonlia 
Dcntalis. — John Hunter, 16, Robert 
Street, Hampstead Road ; July 20. 
Leplogramma Boscana bred. — Having 
been successful last autumn in taking 
L. Parisiana in the perfect state, and 
finding from the ‘Intelligencer’ that 
Mr. Parfitt had taken the larva in the 
latter end of the year, I had resolved to 
examine, this season, the elms at the top 
of my play-ground, but thought it too 
early in June, until I noticed some 
united leaves on the 3rd ult., and found 
a larva answering Mr. Parfitt’s descrip- 
tion, which induced me to get a ladder, 
and for an hour or more I was collecting 
united leaves, many without tenants, but 
many with a fat larva between them : by 
the 11th of June they were nearly all in 
pupa, and on the 18th the first moth ap- 
peared. It is not Parisiana, but Boscana. 
The habits of the larva are interesting, 
and it seems to have no choice between 
the upper and under side of the leaf. I 
shall probably have duplicates, but in 
the height of the season I cannot under- 
take to answer applications. — Rev. E. 
Horton , Flamborougk,ncar Bridlington ; 
July 13. 
Larva of Chilo Giganlellus. — This 
larva feeds in the stems of the reed. In 
order to move from one reed-stem to 
another, which when the plants are 
growing in water would seem a difficult 
proceeding, it bites off a piece of stem 
about its own length, spins it together at 
each end, and becomes for the time a 
case-bearer, till floating on the water it 
comes to another reed-stem, up which it 
crawls, fastens its canoe to it by one end, 
often perpendicularly, and bores into the 
interior. This account of its habits is 
given by Herr Moritz in Treitschke’s 
work : the same observer also mentions 
that Chilo Forjicellus, which feeds in the 
stems of Poa Aqualica, likewise makes a 
tubular case with a view to locomotion. 
I believe these case-bearing larvae of the 
genus Chilo are occasionally mistaken 
for larvae of the genus Coleophora . — 
H. T. Stainton; July 10. 
Coleophora Leucapennella. — Herr 
Miiblig has been so kind as to forward 
me some larvas of this insect. They feed 
inside the capsules of Silene nutans (do 
any entomologists ever come across that 
plant in this country ?) and when the 
capsule has been emptied of the seeds, 
the larva wishing to walk to another 
capsule, and not caring to be at the 
trouble of making a case, carries off the 
capsule bodily cochlearum instar, and 
bores into another capsule, till it has 
obtained as much food as it requires. 
Stranger still, the body of the larva 
having the capsule to occupy, swells out 
to most grotesque dimensions, thus 
realising what I have often been told, 
that it is no use having easy shoes, for 
the foot is sure to grow to fill them ! 
With what contempt the tight-laced larva 
of Coleophora inflates must look down 
upon its pot-bellied sister of the Silene 
nutans ! — Ibid ; July 14. 
Clostera Reclusa double -brooded. — On 
the 7th inst. I found in my breeding-cage 
