"Ill 1853, at the September meetiug of this Society, Mr. Douglas 

 exhibited some curious Lepidopterous larvae mining in the leaves of dog- 

 wood ; they were entirely apodal, and when full fed cut out oval cases from 

 the mined blotches, and descended to the ground. 



"In 1854, at the June meeting of this Society, Mr. Thomas Boyd 

 exhibited the moth bred from the dogwood larvae : it was Elachista Treitsch- 

 kiella, a species first made known to us on the last plate of Fischer von 

 Ptoslerstamm's beautiful work published in 1843. 



"In October, 1854, 1 brought before this Society a short paper, in which 

 I called attention to the perfect identity of habit of the vine-leaf miner 

 recorded in 1750 and the dogwood miner lately bred, and, with the view of 

 giving an impetus to the rediscovery of the vine-leaf miner, I proposed for 

 it a name, Elachista Eivillei. At that time we had begun to consider these 

 insects as abnormal Elachistae ; but it was Herrich-Schaffer who erected a 

 separate genus for their reception — Autispila. 



"In 1855, when visiting Paris for the first time, I brought the subject 

 before the French Entomological Society, and gave a figure in the ' Aunales ' 

 of the dogwood miner, thinking, as vines were grown so extensively in 

 France, the attention of some French entomologist would thereby be drawn 

 to the insect, and its rediscovery effected. In this, however, I was dis- 

 appointed, and when Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue first appeared, in 

 1861, the existence of my Antispila Rivillei was utterly ignored. There is 

 nothing like a flat contradiction for stimulating a man to try and prove his 

 point, and I must say I felt more determined than ever the insect should be 

 found. Curiously enough, a ray of light came to us from across the 

 Atlantic ; for the late Dr. Clemens published, in 1860, in the Proceedings 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, notices of two species of 

 the genus Antispila, of which he had found the larvae in the leaves of vines. 



"In 1869, in my volume on the Tineina of Southern Europe, I devoted 

 an entire chapter to the history of this insect, and reproduced the original 

 plate which had been published in 1750. 



" In October, 1871, I received some of the larvte of this insect from 

 Massa di Carrara: these were sent me by Lady Walsingham, having 

 been found by her daughter, the Hon. Beatrice de Grey ; it was from the 

 larvae then received that the figure of the mined vine-leaf I exhibit was 

 made. 



" In April, 1872, I heard from Lady Walsingham that a specimen of 

 the perfect insect had emerged from the pupa, which gave me an indication 

 to expect specimens myself shortly, for my pupae had not had the advantage 

 of spending a winter in Italy. On the y3rd of May the first specimen 

 appeared : this I now exhibit : it is much smaller than Treitschkiella, and 

 I am sorry to say that a second specimen, which appeared yesterday, is 

 considerably smaller than this." 



