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Since the above was written I have received larvae of this insect 

 from M. Milliere, on the 13th May, 1869, and have thus described 

 the larva : 



Length 5 lines. Dull dark green, the sides paler, with slender 

 darker dorsal and subdorsal lines ; spots minute white ; head black 

 at the sides, paler in front ; second segment pale greyish green with 

 a blackish spot on each side of the back, the space between them 

 appearing almost whitish. 



Active ; much attenuated anteriorly, posteriorly of nearly uniform 

 width. 



Cocoon long, white, but apparently not quite so dense as a 

 Swammerdamia cocoon. 



I bred three specimens of the imago at the end of May and begin- 

 ning of June. It sits with the head downwards and the hinder part 

 of the body raised, and seems to lean on its long palpi, which gives 

 it a very quaint appearance. 



CHATJLIODTJS STAINTONELLTJS, Milliere. 



Exp. al. 5-5^ lin. Head and face grey. Palpi dark grey, ter- 

 minal joint short and rather thick. Antennae slender, grey. 



Anterior wings elongate, rather pointed, more so than in Ch, ckce.- 

 rophyllellus, dull grey, with no definite markings, but with a faint 

 ochreous tinge along the disk, more visible in some specimens than 

 in others ; on the inner margin are three projecting tufts of dark 

 grey scales, the third tuft, at the anal angle, is the smallest and 

 often barely perceptible ; cilia at the apex of the wing dark grey, at 

 the anal angle pale grey. 



Posterior wings pale grey, with pale grey cilia. 



This species was bred from larvae found by Monsieur Milliere at 

 Cannes, on Osyris alba, in May 1868. He sent some of these larva? 

 to me on the 15th May, and on the 19th I described them as 

 follows : 



Length 3| lines. Grass-green, with the dorsal vessel dark greyish 

 green ; the head greyish, with the sides black ; the second segment 

 with four grey spots behind. 



This larva is short, thick, sluggish, and rather sticky-looking ; it 

 is clothed with short, bristly black hairs ; it has sixteen legs. 



The pupa is of a yellowish green, with the wing-cases more de- 

 cidedly green, and reminds one rather of the pupa of Argyresthia 

 Godartella. 



As I left home for Venice and Vienna on the 29th of May, after 

 these larve had assumed the pupa- state, and as I calculated the 

 perfect insects would be developed in my absence, I left the pupa? 

 in charge of my friend Mr. M'Lachlan, and the first week in June 

 the perfect insects made their appearance and were duly cared for. 



