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Hind-ioings, brownish-grey, with shining pale brownish-grey cilia. 

 Abdomen, pale brownish-grey. 



Leffs, posterior pair clothed above with long hairs of the same colour as the 

 cilia of the hind-wings ; tarsal joints whitish, unspotted. Exp. al., 11 — 12 mm. 



Mab. : Cannes, Agay, I'Esterel, Beaulieu. 



Type, (^ ? . Mus., Wlsm. 



The larva feeds upon Stcehelinus duhius. It hollows out the 

 whole width of one of the narrow leaves, and forms its case by 

 cutting off a sufficient length of the hollow leaf to contain it. 

 The upper-side of the leaf being much darker than the under-side, 

 which is whitish, the case has a rather peculiar bicoloured appearance. 

 The mouth is slightly oblique ; the whole case is somew^hat flattened, 

 elongate, narrowly ovate, and the posterior end rounded. The larva 

 frequently leaves its case in feeding, and is found mining to the end 

 of the long narrow leaf, so that in beating the plant it is not unusual 

 to find several empty cases in the beating net. The young larva makes 

 a smaller case, which it exchanges for one of larger capacity as its 

 growth advances. Length of the case, usually about 6 — 8 mm. 



This species appears to be nearly allied to GoleopTiora ohtectella, 

 Z., from Syracuse, but the cilia of the hind-wings are darker, the wings 

 are less narrowly pointed, and the markings are more closely defined 

 than in that species ; moreover, the antennae are white, not annulated. 

 C. ohtectella, described in the Lin. Ent., vol. ix, p. 333 (1849), appears 

 to have been accidentally omitted from the latest Sicilian lists. Mous. 

 Ragonot advises me that it is near to cliamoBdryella and to santolinella, 

 Cst., but differs from the latter in its plain (not annulated) antennae. 



STAGMATOPHOEA, H.-S. 



Stagmatophora eosmabikella, sp. n. 



= larva mining leaves of Rosmarinus officinalis, Stn. Tin. S. Eur., 

 215, 365 (1869). 



Antennee, alternately annulated with fuscous and white, towards the apex the 

 last four white spots are evenly, but more widely, separated than on the basal two- 

 thirds ; a white spot on the upper-side of the basal joint. 



Palpi, white ; with a black spot on the outside at the base, and another before 

 the apex of the second joint ; apical joint with two slender black streaks, running 

 throughout its length on each side. 



Head, smooth ; shining steel-grey. 



Thorax, deop brown. 



Fore-ioi>i()s, brown, with three white costal streaks ; two before and one beyond 

 the middle, tlie former pointing obliquely outwards, the latter obliquely inwards, 

 each tipped with golden metallic scales ; on the dorsal margin are four golden me- 

 tallic spots : the first two more or less in conjunction with the golden ends of the 

 streaks above them, the outer two being right and left of the apex of the third 



