THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 
No. 103.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1858. [Price Id. 
SMALL MOTHS. 
The past week has witnessed the pub- 
lication of the third volume of the 
r Natural Histovy of the Tineina,’ a 
volume which treats principally of the 
grass-mining larvae of the genus Ela- 
chista, and as the season has nearly 
arrived for collecting the larvae of that 
rare species E. tceniatella, which, though 
so common in the larva state, is so 
difficult to rear, we doubt not that an 
impetus will be given to the search 
for these larvae. At the present time 
we know of no other species which 
becomes a full-fed larva in autumn, 
but it is by no means improbable that 
some of our readers, in looking for 
Tania lella, may find other species, as 
yet little dreamed of by us. The 
brome-like grass patronized by Tcenia- 
tella may be known by its growing 
in tufts in shady places, by the yel- 
lowish tinge of the rather broad leaves, 
and by the very short foot-stalk of the 
flower. 
The genus C'oleophora, which will 
next engage our attention, affords a 
far wider field to the eager entomolo- 
gist at this season of the year, when 
the seed-feeding larvae are all so busily 
at work ; and we hope that some one 
in this country will succeed in finding 
the bulb-like case, on the heads of 
mugwort ( Artemisia vulgaris), of Coleo- 
phora albicans. We candidly admit 
that these seed-feeding larvae are gene- 
rally by no means easy to find ; indeed 
were it not so we should never have 
waited so long without some entomo- 
logical explorer of the Isle of Wight 
sending us the larva of that little gem 
Goniocloma auroguttella. 
A new Culeophora has lately been 
obtained by Mr. Douglas amongst Atri- 
plex on the coast, and the larva of 
Binotapennella is still unknown to us ; 
may not some larvae of this genus 
feed on the seeds of Aster tripoliumP 
We doubt, indeed, whether that plant 
could be well searched for a single 
season without turniug up something 
of interest amongst the Coleophorce. 
And, however we may congratulate 
ourselves on the progress that has been 
made in discovering the lame of this 
genus, it must always be with a feeling 
akin to shame that we acknowledge 
that the larva of C. Fabriciella (for- 
merly Spissicornis) is utterly unknown 
in this year 1858. 
