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CHAPTER IV. 



MONSIEUR PIE1UIE MILLIERE. 



WE have traced in the preceding chapters what has been done by 

 three German entomologists who temporarily left their own country 

 for the purpose of exploring the insect world of Italy and Spain ; 

 the present chapter will treat of what a French entomologist has 

 done in his own country, in that peculiarly favoured portion of 

 France which is washed by the Mediterranean. 



It was on the 13th January 1859 that Monsieur Milliere first 

 wrote to me on the subject of the entomology of the Mediterranean 

 coast ; but the language he then used* seemed to imply that he had 

 already visited Hyeres ; and it appears from his remarks under Tinea 

 oleastrella that he was there in the winter of 1856-1857. It was 

 probably in 1859 that he first visited Celle-les-Bains. 



In 1861 he spent two or three months at Amelie-les-Bains, near 

 Perpignan, in the Pyrenees Orientales, where he found the flora 

 very rich, and of an extremely southern character. 



In January 1862 he collected at Marseilles. Fortunately for me 

 M. Milliere was not away in the south in February 1863, as on the 

 22nd of that month I met him at Lyon, and spent some hours in 

 carefully studying his collection, and obtaining many valuable hints 

 on the Micro-Lepidoptera of the south. 



Having spent the winter of 1864-65 at Cannes, he was so charmed 

 with that locality and its entomological capabilities, that he pur- 

 chased a villa there for his permanent winter residence ; and I have 

 had the pleasure of meeting him there, and of collecting with him 

 in March 1866, February and March 1867, and December 1868. 



In the * Annales de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon' (1858-1867), 

 Monsieur Milliere has published a valuable series of papers, w r hich 

 have also appeared in a separate form under the title of ' Icono- 

 graphie et Description de Chenilles et Lepidopteres inedits." In 

 these papers he has given us the entire history of several Tineina, 

 many of them new to science. 



The species treated in these papers may be thus arranged syste- 

 matically :- 



1. Typhonia Dardoinellq, Milliere. Described first as a Psyclie ; 

 afterwards, when a $ with well developed wings was obtained, 

 repognised as a Typlionia. 



* If you are disposed to make a charming journey next month, I would ask 

 you to go with M. Bruand and myself to Hyeres. We think of starting about 

 the 20th of February, and remaining five or six weeks in that terrestrial paradise 

 of entomologists. 



