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on this point. My first volume is 
printed, and the plates are all ready, but 
the publisher will only bring out the 
volumes both together. The manuscript 
has long been delivered ; but there have 
been delays, first, owing to a journey I 
made in the South of France, which 
suspended the correction of the proofs 
during two months, and latterly the pub- 
lisher, instead of sending me a proof- 
sheet every three days, I hardly get one 
once a week. I have lately written to 
complain of this dawdling, and I hope 
he will hasten the publication ; that 
depends entirely on him. I delayed 
answering your letter of the 2nd of 
September, in the hope that a more 
rapid issue of the proofs would take 
place, so that I might have informed 
you of the probable date of publica- 
tion. 
Believe me, dear Sir, 
Your devoted colleague, 
A. Guenee.” 
The readers of the ‘ Intelligencer’ will 
hence see that I am not waiting supinely 
till M. Gueuee’s volumes fall into my 
hands, but, by correspondence across the 
Channel, am doing my best to expedite 
the appearance of these volumes, on 
which the resumption of the ‘Manual’ 
depends. My readers may rest assured 
that I am quite as anxious to see 
No. 15 as they can possibly be. — H. T. 
Stainton ; September 29. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TINEINA. 
On the double-brooded Elachist«. 
Referring to the remarks I penned on 
this subject in the second volume of the 
‘ Intelligencer,’ at p. 158, 1 now wish to 
call the attention of my readers to the 
following observations, which I have re- 
ceived from Professor Frey: — 
“ Gleichenella. Certainly I believe we 
have but one brood here: the larva in 
October is quite small, winters in the 
mine, and feeds in April and May. It 
remains a long time in the pupa state, 
and the perfect insects have appeared 
very irregularly during two months. 
“ Magnijicella we have not. E. No- 
bilella, the larva of which I have often 
sought in vain, probably only appears 
once a year. 
“ Albifrontella. I know of only one 
brood ; the insect is here very abundant, 
and I think I should have met with the 
second brood, did it occur. 
“ Luticomella. This species, which 
lives, not in the leaf,* but in the stem of 
the grass, and which I at first took for an 
Ochsenheimeria, probably occurs twice a 
year. The spring broods of the larva 
may be found in May, or even in April, 
producing moths in May and June. 
Herr Boll took a fresh specimen on the 
2nd of August, 1855, so that I assume a 
second brood of the larva feeds in July. 
The habit of the larva is quite peculiar, 
differing from all the true Elachislce.f 
With us it only occurs in Dactylis glo- 
merala. 
“ Cinereopunctella. In 1854 I took a 
fresh female near Zurich, in the second 
half of August. Since I have bred 
Cinereopunctella plentifully here in May 
and June, I consider that a second brood 
is demonstrated. 
“ Tetragonella. Probably only single- 
brooded. The larva can be found here 
during nearly two months in the spring, 
and the moth is already on the wing, 
whilst the late larvse are still feeding. 
* Professor Frey is in error in stating 
that this larva does not feed in the leaf : 
it does so when young, but when more 
advanced in life it confines itself to the 
stem. — H. T. S. 
f The habit of Atricomella is, I believe, 
quite similar. — H. T. S. 
