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July. 
ancl from the situation in which they were feeding, after the original food-plants had 
been destroyed, must, I think, have been produced from eggs laid by some of those 
which were swarming around us in August ; and, late as they were, they refused to 
pass the winter in the pupa state. — Clennell Wilkinson, Castlemartin : 1 Gth June, 
1880. 
[Is not this an indication of an instinctive attempt at following up the habit of 
the species in a hotter climate, where two broods in the year are possible and usual ? 
— C. G. B.] 
Description of the larva of Ephestia ficul el-la. — Along with the larva? of Plodia 
interpunctella received from Mr. J. R. Wellman, on the 21st December, 1878, and 
already described in this journal, were several of an Ephestia, from which, on the 
27th of August following, a single specimen was bred, agreeing perfectly with an 
example in my cabinet named ficulella. 
Length about half an inch, and of average bulk ; head highly polished, it has 
the lobes rounded, and the mandibles prominent; body cylindrical, tapering anteriorly, 
the head being the narrowest segment ; there i6 a distinct polished plate on the 
second segment behind the head, and a small similarly polished space on the anal 
segment ; skin very glossy and rather wrinkled. 
The ground colour a pale pinky-flesh, varying in depth of colour in different 
specimens ; head and mandibles dark sienna-brown ; frontal plate still darker brown, 
almost black : dorsal, sub-dorsal, and spiracular lines all very distinct, and 
about equal in width, pink ; and there is still another, but a narrower, of these pink 
lines, below the spiracles ; spiracles minute, dark brown ; tubercles large, raised, and 
polished, very dark brown, in some specimens nearly black. 
Ventral surface greyish-white, with a faint pink tinge ; legs and prolegs tipped 
with brown. Feeds on dried figs. — Geo. T. Poebitt, Highroyd House, Hudders- 
field : June bth, 1880. 
Nemophora pilelJa in Lancashire. — Last season I took a longhorn among 
Vaccinium , high up on the moors at Green Thorn about a mile above Stoneyhurst 
College; I suspected it was N. pilella, but only having one specimen to look at I had 
to let it stand over; but to show how eyes vary in seeing differences, or rather in not 
seeing the most striking and positive characters in determining those differences, 
I may note a keen careful eye like C. S. Gregson’s could only make the specimen in 
question a $ of Metaxella, whereas H. T. Stainton made it into Schwarziella, but I 
still thought it ought to be something different on account of the situation being so 
totally at variance with where Schwarziella occurs. Well, this season I was determined 
to , settle the question, and towards the end of May I set off again in quest of more 
specimens and to see the habits and general ways of the supposed pilella or a new 
species. I took a score of specimens of both sexes in splendid condition, flying in 
the hot sun, most actively starting up from among the Vaccinium , and when soaring 
up into the fir trees they looked almost like worn Adela viridella, giving them quite 
a green shining tint; the flight first of all in general appearance settled mo they were 
no Schwarziella and no Metaxella , I take the latter among alders about 2 miles lower 
down. In the next place, just get pilella into your net and it wants all the wind 
you can spare to blow it back in the net to box it, and when boxed it runs about as 
