8 SPECIES COLLECTED BY PROFESSOR ZELLER 



the plants to pieces, collected the larvae together and put them 

 into a box. Then I washed my hands carefully with soap, 

 having taken care as I walked home not to touch my face with 

 them. I thought now, therefore, I should be secure from the above- 

 named itching. But in the night my face swelled, and the swell- 

 ing increased rapidly the following ' day ; the lids of the left eye 

 swelled to large balls, which more and more impeded my sight. 

 Around the inner corner of the eye the skin was thickly covered 

 with small pustules. The right eye was less affected. About 

 the eyes and the upper part of the nose I felt an unpleasant 

 burning sensation, and had a violent itching in the ears and about 

 the mouth and chin ; I was obliged therefore, on the 1st of May, 

 to keep my room. On the 2nd of May the swelling of the left 

 eye had so much increased that I could hardly see out of it ; the 

 right eye was also much swollen, but was more serviceable. The 

 eyelids were like balls ; and the whole shapeless, swollen face 

 was covered with small pustules, which on the chin and on the 

 inner corner of the left eye had united in masses. On the neck 

 and wrist the itching was most disagreeable. My landlord was 

 much horrified when he saw my dreadful face, and wished to 

 fetch the physician ; but as I now knew precisely the cause of 

 the evil, I preferred leaving nature to effect her cure. Towards 

 noon the evil appeared to be stationary : in the evening I could 

 already see better with the left eye ; the burning sensation had 

 ceased, but the itching still continued to be most unpleasant. I 

 could not think of going out. On the 3rd of May the eyes had 

 very much improved, and I could now see quite well with the 

 left eye ; but on the lower lip and around the eye was all like a 

 scab. It was not till the 4th of May that, except about the eyes, 

 the swelling had subsided ; but from the whole face, excepting 

 the forehead, the skin came off. I was now able to go out, but 

 with my disfigured countenance attracted more than usually the 

 notice of those I met. 



Henceforth I always treated the Thapsia with the greatest 

 respect : I did not pluck it, but cut it with a knife ; nor even 

 ventured to do that with my bare hands, but always in gloves, and 

 afterwards washed knife, gloves, and hands most carefully. 



Carcina fayana, S. V. Three specimens on the 19th of August beat 

 from oaks on the southern side of the Lake of Agnano, and a 

 single beautiful male on the 5th of September from garden-hedges 

 (in which, as far as I remember, were neither beeches nor oaks) 

 behind Fuligno. They differ in nothing from German specimens. 



Gelechia vilella, n. sp. [Described, see p. 33.] I took two specimens 

 in a ravine on the slopes of the ancient Neapolis near Syracuse, 

 on thorny bushes, on the 12th of May. A smaller female, already 

 much worn but yet recognizable, was taken in Asia Minor by Loew 

 at Mermeriza on the 20th April. 



G. detersdla, n. sp. [Described, see p. 33.] Three males and two 

 females from Syracuse, taken singly in the latter half of June on 



