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is nothing particular to be said about 
their habits ; they fly at dusk and sit by 
day on the trunks of trees and palings. 
(Vol. II. pp. 14, 15.) 
{To be continued). 
A GOSSIP ABOUT GRASS. 
Lately I have been endeavouring to do 
a little in the way of Elachista-hunlxng, 
and perhaps a record of my attempts, 
failures, and subsequent partial success, 
may not be altogether an unedifying 
recital; on some points you or some of 
your readers may be able to give me 
better ideas as to the modus operandi, for 
I can assure you it was rather dull work 
at first ferreting it out myself, and even 
now I may hardly have attained the right 
track; any scraps of information will be 
thankfully received. 
In the first place, looking for mined 
grass leaves struck me as very much like 
“ looking for a needle in a bottle of hay,” 
and I spent many fruitless hours walking 
in meadows in the expectation of falling 
in with some mines, and it was only 
quite accidentally that I found the ob- 
jects of my search were best attained in 
the close proximity of hedges ; my next 
discovery of importance was that I must 
bring my eyes more nearly to the level of 
the grass than by merely bending my 
neck a little. As you know, I am not 
particularly tall, but even my moderate 
altitude was too much to allow of a good 
hunt among the grasses without a con- 
siderable degree of genuflexion. 
I found my best plan was to sit down 
on the ground close by the hedge, and 
then to examine slowly and seriatim the 
different tufts of grass which grow in the 
hedge-bottom ; many of the mined grass 
leaves I have met with I fear are only 
Dipterous, and in others I have been 
unable to find the larvae at home, but in 
a few I have been successful and have col- 
lected altogether probably about twenty 
larvae. 
Amongst these, I think I can clearly 
distinguish two sorts, one of which makes 
a small brownish mine, and the other 
a broad greenish white mine ; the latter, 
I presume, is Rufocinerea ; that which 
makes a slender browner mine I do not 
at present recognise, but I suppose I shall 
find out what it is when I breed it. I 
have found many of a slender whitish 
mine, but in no one instance have I suc- 
ceeded in finding a larva in these, yet 
they do not appear to my inexperienced 
eyes to be the mines of a Dipterous 
larva. B. 
[The small brown mine is probably 
that of the young larva of Megerlella ; 
the whitish mines, which never contain 
larvae, may be those of Luticomella, the 
larva itself will he found boring down 
the stem ; B had better try again lower 
down.] 
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