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Gelechia Uguttella, H.-S. One specimen bred from a pupa found in 

 February on Dorycnium suffruticosum.. 



Nothris verbascella, W. V. One specimen bred in April from larvse 

 found feeding on Yerbascum in February. 



Butalis, n. sp. ? A single specimen of a Butalis, which, though re- 

 sembling in some respects B. dorycniella, Milliere, is evidently 

 distinct from that ; the anterior wings are longer, the expansion 

 of the wings being 6|'", whereas in dorycniella it is barely 6'" ; 

 the posterior wings are much paler than in dorycniella. In my 

 male specimen of dorycniella the cilia are so much darker than 

 the ground-colour of the anterior wings that they have quite a 

 dark-tipped appearance, a character which does not appear in Mr. 

 Burney's insect. That entomologist informed me that he " bred 

 it in April from a larva which fed in February and March on 

 Euphorbia dendroides." When at Mentone I searched repeatedly 

 on Euphorbia dendroides, the handsome bushes of which at once 

 attract the attention of all visitors to that locality, but I found no 

 Butalis-larvse on it, nor did I see any symptoms of them. The 

 larvae of Pcedlocliroma (Argyrolepia) Mulsantana, Milliere (closely 

 allied to our Hawkerana (Stevens) Stainton), were very common 

 on that and other species of Euphorbia. 



After two unsuccessful attempts to rediscover this Butalis-larva, 

 on Euphorbia dendroides, I suggested to Mr. Burney that possibly 

 there had been some error, and that the larva which produced the 

 Butalis had fed on some other plant, perhaps on Dorycnium. To 

 this he replied. " The Butalis I bred from a Mentone larva could 

 not have been from either of the species of Dorycnium ; I never 

 had a larva feeding on either species ; it must have been from 

 Euphorbia, mallow, or juniper. I think from mallow; for I 

 recollect a little black-looking larva which I took to be a Gelechia, 

 and which fed under a turned-down leaf of mallow early in the 

 season." 



For the present the matter must remain an enigma, to be solved 

 at some future time. 



Gracilaria tringipennella, Z. One specimen beaten from juniper in 



March. 

 G. scalariella, Z. Several bred from Echium vulgar e in December, 



the larvae mining blackish blotches in the leaves of that plant. 



Tischeria complanella, Hiibner. Two specimens bred from oak leaves 



in May. 

 Lithocolletis Messaniella, Z. Two specimens bred from Quercus ilex 



in April. 



L. sublautella, n. sp. Nine specimens bred from Quercus in 



April. 



Staudinger described two Spanish species of this genus, L. 

 hesperiella, probably from Quercus coccifera, and L. belotella bred 

 from Quercus ilex ; and looking only to Standinger's description I 

 should have thought that the latter was my proposed new species ; 



