170 OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 



of Cratcegus fyracantha^ to the Leucographella which 

 Mann bred from a shrub which " looked like privet, only 

 that it had long thorns. "" 



My larvas were unfortunately so young that I scarcely 

 anticipated breeding them, and they all died long before they 

 were fed up. I hoped to have met with the plant again 

 further south, but I never saw it afterwards. 



Nepticula Infimellaj Zeller. Since Mr. Sircom used to 

 take this insect amongst sallows at Brislington, we have 

 always had an impression that the larva mined in the leaves 

 of sallows, and this summer I had the pleasure of seeing in 

 the collection of Senator v. Heyden at Frankfort, bred speci- 

 mens of Nepticula Tntiniella ; bred from blotch-like mines on 

 Salix Caprcea. 



Nepticula Serkopeza. At p. 37 of vol. viii. of the Ento- 

 mologist's Weekly Intelligencer, and again at p. 113 of the 

 Entomologist's Annual for 1861, it is stated that the larva of 

 Nepticula Sericopeza had been discovered by Dr. Wocke, 

 and that it mined the leaves of the aspen {Populus tremula). 

 This statement I now conceive must have originated in some 

 error of observation. 



When at Paris last February I obtained from my very ex- 

 cellent friend Colonel Goureau a specimen of a Nepticula, 

 which I certainly believe to be Sericopeza, and which he 

 had bred from a larva feeding in the seeds of Acer pla- 

 tanoides. Of this insect Colonel Goureau kindly gave me 

 the entire history, and lent me his manuscript notes, that I 

 might copy out the whole of the interesting information, of 

 which I here subjoin an epitome. 



On the 13th June, 1859, Colonel Goureau had collected 

 in his garden at Santigny some keys of Acer platanoides 

 which had fallen before the seeds were perfectly ripe ; for the 

 seeds having been attacked by a small larva the flow of sap 



