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THE ENTOMOLOGISTS WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TINEINA. 
If the next volume of this work is to 
consist of twenty-four Elachistui , it is 
necessary that all eyes and hands he at 
work assisting in unravelling that very 
tangled skein. 
Magnificella : this is a prize worth 
looking for, and though it may, like 
Brunnichella, be not a grass-feeder at 
all, I should be very glad if some of my 
Bristol correspondents could contrive to 
pitch upon it. 
Apicipunctella : this swarms so where 
it occurs, that it ought not to be a diffi- 
cult matter to find the larva. Having 
taken it on an actual moss, I am half 
inclined to suspect that it feeds on some 
Carex, or perhaps Eriophorum. There 
was plenty of the last-named plant where 
I got them (and plenty of midges, too ! 
How they did bite, to be sure !). 
Occultella : this, no doubt, feeds in 
some grass that loves damp, shady situ- 
ations: it was just in such a locality 
where Mr. Douglas met with the perfect 
insect at West Wickham. 
Consortella ; this insect is by no means 
uncommon up Headley Lane towards 
the chalk-pit, and Professor Frey assures 
me the larva feeds on Poa nemoralis and 
trivialis. Unfortunately I am not, at 
present, aware of any distinctive cha- 
racters which the leaves of those 
grasses possess, and I half suspect 
that it is rather polyphagous among the 
grasses. 
Zonariella : the larva of this species 
ought to be looked for in the localities 
where the imago occurs, among Aira 
ccespitosa: it mines the whole width of 
the leaf, slightly inflating it. 
Rhynchosporella : as I had no oppor- 
tunity of getting this larva figured when 
I found it three years ago, 1 should be 
very glad to receive a few from some 
moorland collector. The food plant is 
Eleocharis. Perhaps wc may discover 
that Eleochariella patronises the Rhyn- 
chospora. 
Triatomea , Collitella and Pollinariella, 
must all occur as larvae about this time, 
and should be well sought for on the 
chalk and on the limestone. All three 
species occur at Mickleham, and I be- 
lieve also at Bristol. 
Mr. T. Wilkinson having last year 
bred E. Pollinariella , will probably this 
year be able to collect the larvae. 
Ochreella : I rather suspect this larva 
will be polyphagous ; perhaps, almost as 
bad in that respect as the neighbouring 
species Cygnipennella. 
I should be very glad to hear from any 
one who has found a recipe for separating 
the larva of E. luticomella from that of 
E. atricornella. 
Among the Cyperaceous plants, which 
would probably repay the Elachista- 
hunter for a careful search, may be enu- 
merated Cypcrus fuscus, Schcenus nigri- 
cans, Cladium Mariscus, Rhyneliospora 
alba, Eleocharis, Scirpus and Eriopho- 
rum, besides, no doubt, many of the 
genus Carex, (which, in the last edition 
of Babington, extends to seventy-one 
species). — H. T. Stainton ; April, 1857. 
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