1891.) 137 



MICRO-LEPIDOPTESA COLLECTED NEAR CANNES, 1890. 

 BY 'THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, MA, F.R S., &c. 



The following somewhat rich list of captures in the tiuie devoted 

 to collecting during three months spent on the south coast of France 

 in the spring of 1S90 may be of interest to others who visit the locality. 

 I have to acknowledge the valuable and willing assistance received at 

 all times from my esteemed colleague, Mons. A. Constant, to whose 

 long acquaintance with the Lcpidoptcra of France, accompanied by a 

 thorough knowledge of the botany of the district, I am indebted for 

 many of the more interesting species here mentioned. I had the 

 pleasure and advantage of his companionship on several occasions in 

 the Esterel hills and elsewhere, with free access to his well-arranged 

 collection. Having been in the neighbourhood of Cannes during the 

 spring months of several years, with only occasional intervals, I am 

 convinced that, notwithstanding the diligent and careful study so long 

 devoted to the subject by Mons. Constant, and by the late Mons. P. 

 Milliere, many unobserved species of Micro-Lepidoptera still remain 

 to be discovered, and I look forward hopefully to a winter campaign 

 next year. The genera GeJechia (in its widest sense), Goleophora, 

 BucculatrLv, and Nepticula are those which appear to be most richly 

 represented in the coast district. I have not remained sufficiently late 

 in the summer to penetrate to the adjacent mountain-range of the 

 Alpes-Maritimes, undoubtedly rich in species. 



By referring to my notes of previous years, a far more extensive 

 list could be made, but one of the objects in view is to show what 

 may be done in a limited space of time, and I am not aware that more 

 than two or three|of the species taken before 1890 would be additions 

 to those already recorded by other authors. 



The following descriptions refer to two new species of Coleophora, 

 and a new Stagmatopliora mentioned below. I leave the new Lita to 

 be dealt with at some future time, in the hope that Mons. Constant 

 may add it to the already numerous discoveries he has made known to 

 his fellow-workers. He informs me that he is about to publish 

 further descriptions of several new species, some of which he has 

 kindly permitted me to mention by his MS. names, in anticipation of 

 his next paper. 



Coleophora bifrondella, sp. n. 

 AntenncB, white, annulated with greyish-brown. 

 Palpi, white. 



Head, white ; face slightly tinged with greyish-brown. 

 Thorax, white. 



