136 OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 



kindness of Dr. Schlager I now find myself tboroughly ac- 

 quainted with the larva of this species ; it is the same larva 

 which Professor Frey showed me at Zurich, May 3rd, 1857 ; 

 but those larvae being then very young were slightly different. 



The larvae from Jena reached me on the 6th of June, and 

 they continued to feed for some time after I had them, the 

 full-fed larvae being considerably more than half an inch in 

 length : the larva is very conspicuous ; the ground colour 

 blackish ; the spots black, in faint white rings ; the third seg- 

 ment velvety black, with some enamelled with spots between 

 the third and fourth segments. The larvae which I received 

 from Dr. Schlager were feeding between united leaves of 

 TrifoUum medium, but 1 fed them easily with TriJ'oliu7n 

 pratense. 



Dr. Schlager wrote me, " I find the larva in the forest on 

 divers species of Trifoliuui, Frarjaria, Scahiosa. The}'' 

 unite the leaves, feeding only on the inner side so long as 

 they aie young, but when they get larger they eat the entire 

 thickness of the leaves." 



The perfect insects made their appearance with me from 

 the 30th June to the 13th July; they have a slight resem- 

 blance to Nofhris Durdhamella, but are much larger and 

 more ochreous. 



Buialis Cicadella, Zeller. This insect stands in our British 

 lists on the authority of a single specimen, captured near Bran- 

 don, in Suffolk, some years ago by Mr. Dunning, and to 

 whose liberality I am indebted for the possession of the speci- 

 men. Last summer I had the pleasure of making the ac- 

 quaintance of the larva, Herr Hofmann having very kindly 

 forwarded several to me from Ratisbon. This larva is pe- 

 culiar in its markings and very pretty. I append my de- 

 scription : 



Length 5 J lines : fuscous, with a broad yellow-brown 



