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eluded from these cases, and only a 
single locality furnished me with a 
couple of males of Solenobia triquetrella. 
“ I was enabled to observe that these 
virgin female case-bearers, which I con- 
stantly watched in little vessels closed 
with glass lids, clung firmly to the 
outside of their cases, in the same fashion 
as the females of Fumea nitidella, and 
filled the case with eggs by pushing in 
their ovipositors : however, these female 
Solenobice differed from the female Fu- 
niece in this respect, that the former in 
escaping and creeping out dragged the 
pupa-case with them quite out of the 
case. The pupa-case then remained at 
first sticking loosely into the posterior 
free opening of the case, which was 
firmly spun down (at its anterior end), 
but also frequently fell down, so that the 
female Solenobice always lay their eggs 
immediately in the case itself. The 
females of the case-bearing genus Talce- 
poria, which approaches most closely to 
Solenobia , proceed in exactly the same 
way in escaping and laying their eggs. 
“But what particularly struck me in 
the behaviour of the female Solenobice, 
was the circumstance that they commence 
the business of oviposition very soon 
after their exclusion, whilst the females 
of Funiece put off their egg-laying until 
they have copulated, by which means 
many of the latter in my breeding-cages, 
in which there was sometimes a defi- 
ciency of males, died of vain expectation 
in their virgin state, without having 
previously discharged their eggs. The 
female Solenobice, on the contrary, pos- 
sessed such a violent impulse to lay their 
eggs, that when 1 removed them from 
their cases they pushed about their 
ovipositor in search of the orifice of the 
case, and at last let their eggs fall openly. 
If I had wondered at the zeal for ovipo- 
sition in these husbandless Solenobice, 
how was I astonished when all the eggs 
of these females, of whose virgin state I 
was most positively convinced, gave birth 
to young caterpillars, which looked about 
with the greatest assiduity in search of 
materials for the manufacture of their 
little cases.” 
We hope to give some further extracts 
in an early number. 
OBITUARY. 
Herr Bremi Wolff died at Zurich on 
the 26tli of February last, after a long 
illness, aged 68. The greater part of his 
collections have been left to the town of 
Zurich. 
Sig. Cai’lo Passerini, the celebrated 
Italian Entomologist, has recently died 
at an advanced age. 
Dr. T. C. Heysham, of Carlisle, died 
on the 6th iust. He was well known, 
especially in former times, as a Natural- 
ist and Entomologist, and had fine col- 
lections. 
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