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* Gracilaria Scalariella. This insect has been bred by 

 Monsieur Milliere of Lyons, from larvae which mine the 

 leaves of Ech'um vvlgare in v\ inter, making slightly 

 puckered blotches. I had the pleasure of visiting Monsieur 

 Milliere for the first time in February last, and making the 

 personal acquaintance of one whom I had long valued as a 

 correspondent. Monsieur Milliere had been spending two 

 or three months during the winter at Amelie-les-Bains, near 

 Perpignan, where the flora is very rich and southern, and 

 he had been extremely successful in finding the larva of 

 several new Micro-Lepidoptera on Tumarix, on Smilax, on 

 Doryrnnum svjfruticosumy and other southern plants. Re- 

 presentations of these larvae had been faithfully taken, and 

 will in due time be published to the world in the Annales 

 de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon. I trust that Monsieur 

 Milliere will long continue his valuable services to this 

 branch of science ; I could very readily have spent a much 

 longer time in examining his treasures and hearing his obser- 

 vations, but I was then on my way to Italy, and the sight of 

 these novelties, the produce of a southern flora, only rendered 

 me more anxious to go to the south myself, so that on the 

 day following my visit to Monsieur Milliere I had already 

 left Lyons. 



A^ychna Profvgella, Zeller (Stainton, Ent. Ann. 1856, 

 p. 3S). This insect has been bred from larvae, which feed 

 in the seeds of Hei^adeum sphondf/lium, QiJgopodium poda- 

 graria, and other Umbelliferae. On the 4th August, Herr 

 Ernest Hofraann (for the entire Hofmann family are heart 

 and soul devoted to the study of Micro-Lepidoptera) sent 

 me some larvae of this species, but they had all assumed the 

 pupa state before they reached Lewisham, so that I have not 

 yet had the pleasure of seeing the larva of so interesting a 

 species. In England Profugella has occurred in few 



