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Type, $ (SOSOl) ; ? (80S02), Mus. Wlsm. 



Hob. : S. Prance, Beaulieu. Larva Rosinariniis officinalis^ 30, 

 IV, exel. 2—17, VIIT, 1890. Two specimens. 



COLEOPHORA, Hb. 

 2528 (I). CoLEOPiroRA btanthivora, sp. n. 



Antennm wifhout a basal tuft ; wliite. Palpi with a scarcely appreciable short 

 tuft projecting beneath from the end of the median joint. Head and thorax fawn- 

 grey above, whiter at the sides. Fore-winqx brownish fawn-grey, the margins 

 narrowly white throughout ; a white streak from the base following the line of the 

 fold is slightly dilated at the end of the cell and attenuated to the apex beyond it, 

 a short branch reaching the dorsum on the fold ; above it are three short white 

 streaks along the veins, all terminating in the outer half of the costa — these 

 originate from the margin of the cell and are thus detached from the longer streak 

 below them ; on the outer lialf of the cell is some black speckling along the upper 

 margin of the median streak, somewhat less of the same speckling occurring along 

 its lower margin and extending further towards the base, there are also a few black 

 scale-specks between the costal streaks and at the apex ; cilia whitish grey, with a 

 faint fawn-brownish shade running along their basal half, mixed with white scales 

 on their extreme base. Exp. al.,'\4> — 17 mm. Hind-wings pale shining brownish 

 grey ; cilia pale fawn-brownish. Abdomen brownish grey. Leqs whitisli, the tibial 

 hairs pale fawn-brownish. 



Type, ? (84877) ; S (^4^78), Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah.: S. France, Veriiet (Pyr. Or). Larva Dianthus, 26, V, 

 excl. 16—17, VII ; 1—25, IX, 1899. Six specimens. 



Nearly allied to odorariella, Mhlg. and Prey, but it is slightly 

 darker in colouring and has less black speckling between the veins ; 

 the hind-wings are also slightly darker. 



The case is of the same shape as that of odorariella, cylindrical, 

 with trigonal apex and sloping mouth-aperture ; it is slightly streaked 

 lengthwise with pale cinereous and pale brownish grey, and somewhat 

 dusted with fuscous atoms ; it has, however, no small pebbles or 

 fragments of plants attached, as in the case of odorariella. 



The larva differs in its habits from dianfhi, H.-S., so far as one 

 can judge from finding it feeding on the leaves of a species of 

 Dianthus, in the tufts at the base of the old flower- stems rather than 

 among the seed-capsules as in that species. 



Two specimens were bred in July, four others in September. 



{To he continued). 



