56 [August, 



magnified, and is so stated to be by M. de Eiville ; but the cases were, 

 I believe, intended by him to represent the natural size of his cases, 

 and they are very much larger than those o£ the insect I have been 

 rearing — they are larger than my cases of Antispila Treitschkiella. 

 Hence I cannot help entertaining a somewhat uneasy feeling that 

 possibly there may be another vine-feeding species of this genus in 

 southern Italy. It is even possible that that might be the veritable 

 BiviUei, and the insect I have been now noticing a species totally 

 hitherto unknown, which has been found in the search for " the lost 

 Pleiad." 



Did not Columbus by going westward in order to reach China 

 discover America ? The search for the known often results in the 

 finding of the unknown. 



The first imago of A. Birillei appeared on the 23rd May ; another 

 appeared on the 2nd June, and another the following day ; another 

 specimen appeared on the 10th June ; on the 14th three appeared 

 (on the 21st June I left home for a fortnight, and put all my pupae 

 in a cool place till my return on the 5th July) ; another appeared on 

 the 6th and another on the 7th July (but strange to relate, loth these 

 were injured in boxing ; their remains, however, I have carefully 

 pinned) ; another specimen appeared on the 16th July and is still 

 living, waiting till I can screw up my courage again to grapple with 

 so great a difiiculty as the pinning and setting of Antispila Bivillei. 

 Mountsfield, Lewislmra : July ISth, 1872. 



NATURAL HISTOEY OF TRIPSMNA SUB SE QUA. 

 BY WILLIAM BUCKLEE. 



On September 6th, 1871, Mr. George Norman, of Foi-res, most 

 kindly sent me some eggs laid by a female of this species. The larvae 

 began to hatch on the evening of the 13th ; on the 23rd they moulted ; 

 by October 14th they were five-twelfths of in inch in length, and 

 growing fast, so that by the 20th they were five-eighths of an inch 

 long ; after this, most of them ceased feeding for hibernation, but 

 some went on till full growth, moulting for the last time during the 

 latter part of November, becoming full-fed from the 16th to 27th of 

 December, and pupating shortly after. The hibernating larvae did 

 well enough whilst the weather was mild, and fed a little, and got 

 through a moult in January, 1872 ; but, on the 29th of that mouth, a 

 severe frost killed most of them, and the survivors perished in a similar 

 wav on Februarv 21st. 



