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LARVA. On Prunus communis (sloe) " preferring 

 the smallest and most depauperated bushes ", (Hof)-> 

 in June. 



T. Lederer*!. 



TIME OF APPEARANCE. June. 



HABITAT. Route de Venanson, at Saint-Martin- 

 Vesubie ? Rare. Any really authentic accounts of the 

 capture of this Theela in the department, would be of 

 value to the lepidopterological fauna. 



It is usually considered as belonging to Armenia 

 and the Trans-Caucasus. 



LARVA. Unknown. 



T. liotoorls. 



TIMES OF APPEARANCE. May and June 



HABITAT. Saint-Martin-V6subie, in the same loca- 

 lities as T. Quercus. It is somewhat rare, four or five 

 individuals only, being captured in the course of a 

 season by entomologists. 



LARVA. " Dull brown, with a black dorsal streak 

 bordered with obscure yellow markings." (V. G.) 

 " On oak?" (Kirby, Man. Eur. But., p. 87), and 

 ash (Fraxinus}. 



OBSERVATION. Some authors constitute Roboris as 

 a separate species and place it in the genus Laeosopis 

 (Ram), but as it is included in the genus Theela by 

 D r Staudinger, I have thought it best to follow his 

 arrangement. 



The eyes of this species are not hairy as in Theela. 

 The hind-margins of the h.-w. are not scalloped near 

 the anal angle, and the u.-s. does not show the light 



