140 LEPIDOPTERA. 



creature is very scarce in our neighbourhood, Ulmella being 

 much more abundant" (A. S., 15, 9, 61). 



This larva differs rather from the usual Bucculatrix type. 

 1 have described it as *' pale yellowish, with dark green 

 (almost blackish-green) sub-dorsal stripes ; spots small and 

 grey ; head pale brown ; some of the segments, especially 

 the eighth, are tinged with grey on the back." 



Nepticula Weaveri. Professor Zeller has sent me a leaf 

 of Vaccinium Vitis Idcea, collected near Meseritz, which 

 was mined by the larva of this species (7, 4, 61). 



* Trifarcula Pallidella. " On the Carinthian Alps, 

 4,500 feet above the sea, a yellowish Trifurculay which is no 

 doubt Pallidella, was flying amongst Genista sagittalis; it is 

 probably attached to that^ plant, just as T. immundella is 

 attached to the common broom" (P. C. Z., 8, 8, 61). 



