106 LEPIDOPTERA. 



whitish-ochreous, on the hind margin pale grey. Posterior 

 wings grey, with grey cilia. 



Most readily distinguished from Argentula by the absence 

 of the dark costal cilia beyond a whitish line just before the 

 apex, the narrower anterior wings, and paler annulations of 

 the antennae. 



Discovered by Herr Schmid at Frankfort on the Maine 

 in the larva state. Herr Schmid having sent me some 

 larvae which feed on the seeds of the golden-rod (Solidago 

 virgaurea), and I have recently returned from Bideford, 

 where that plant abounded, it occurred to me that if I could 

 get some observant collector in the West of England to 

 search the Solidago, the new species might be found here. I 

 wrote to Mr. Parfitt, of Exeter, who had already proved 

 himself a useful correspondent, to examine carefully the seeds 

 of the golden-rod for this insect ; he did so, and immediately 

 found it, and from the larvae he sent me I bred the perfect 

 insect in August rather freely. 



The case is rather small and cylindrical, as most of the 

 cases of seed-feeding larvae are, but it has some of the loose 

 filaments of the seed-down woven into it, and these are fast 

 only at the anterior end, the hinder end being loose like the 

 quills of a porcupine. 



Frey appears to have had this species before him when he 

 described his Albicans, but as it does not appear to be the 

 Albicans of Zeller, who makes no mention of the narrowness 

 of the anterior wings, that name cannot be retained for it. 

 The Albicans of Herrich-S chaffer feeds on Artemisia in a 

 bulb-like case. 



Coleophora Vitisella, Gregson, n. sp. 

 This species, described by Mr. Gregson in the Zoologist, 

 1856, p. 5167, I have not yet had an opportunity of suffi- 

 ciently examining. The female is yellower than the male, as 



