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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Note on the IIediscovery of the Larva of Antispila 

 RiviLLEi, after a lapse OF 120 years. 



By H. T. Stainton, F.R.S. 



Having for the last fifteen years incessantly urged those 

 collecting in the south of Europe to search for the Antisjn/a 

 of the vine, described in the year 1750, I am happy to say 

 that it has now been detected. 



The larvae were found in a vineyard at Massa di Carrara, 

 in Italy, the first week in October last, by the Hon. Beatrice 

 de Grey, by whose keen sight for insects her brother. Lord 

 Walsingham, has often benefited. 



In all probability this Antisjnla is double-brooded ; the 

 original specimens were found as full-fed larvas at the end of 

 July, as fully detailed in the "Tineina of Southern Europe," 

 pp. 310-319. 



