136 LETTERS PROM DR. STATJDINGER. 



Troisieme Livraison) of his ' Iconographie et Description de Che- 

 nilles et Lepidopteres inedits'*. Dr. Staudinger remained there 

 from the 18th of August till the 21st of October. 



In 1867, whilst on a visit to the Engadine in July, he made an 

 excursion to the shores of the Lake of Como, memorable by the dis- 

 covery of the Lithocolletis of the plane tree, L. platani. 



SECTION I. 

 Letters from Dr. Staudinger. 



The following extracts from Dr. Staudinger's letters to me will 

 not be devoid of interest : 



"Berlin, March 16th, 1856. 



" I am sorry that the new Gelechia and Coleophora, which I found 

 in the Island of Sardinia (not Corsica), must remain undescribed for 

 the present, my work on the SesiidaB having taken up all my time. 

 Next month I shall start on my entomological campaign to Ice- 

 land 



" Next year I hope to go to Spain and Portugal, and to remain 

 there for three or four years." 



"Berlin, December 22nd, 1856. 



" In the middle of January we (my wife and I) start for Spain, 

 and shall probably remain away from three to five years. We go 

 in the first place to Granada, and afterwards very probably to 

 Portugal" 



" Chiclana, near Cadiz, March 2nd, 1858. 



" I had long ago intended to have written to you, but waited till 

 I had received tidings of the parcel of insects which I had dispatched 

 from here to Berlin. These tidings only arrived here a few days 

 back, and with them a letter from Zeller. Prom this I perceive 

 that out of the 95 TineidaB I had sent home nearly the third of them 

 are new. Altogether I collected last year, principally near Granada, 

 about 150 species of TineidaB. I have retained here one specimen of 

 each species, consequently all the unique specimens, of which unfor- 

 tunately there are a considerable number. I think of returning to 

 Germany in July 



(( I have only observed the larvae of fifteen of these TineidaB, my 



* Je crois devoir informer les Lepidopteristes que plusieurs localites de 

 1'Ardeche, notamment le petit pays de Celles-les-bains, est tres-riche en insectes 

 de 1' extreme Midi de la France. J'y ai capture en effet, bon nombre d'especes 

 de Lepidopteres considers jusqu'a ce jour comme habitant presque exclusive- 

 ment les environs de Marseille ou Montpellier. 



La flore des localite's que je viens de citer, est, a peu de choses pres, celle de 

 nos provinces les plus meridionales. 



Je ne connais Celles et ses environs que depuis peu, mais ce que j'ai remarque 

 de sa faune entomologique, me la fait supposer fort interessante 



J'ajouterai que les chasses, dans oe beau pays, sont dee plus faeiles par In 

 proximit des lieux. 



