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L. leucoyraphella, Zeller. (Sec ante, pp. 70 & 88.) I found the 

 larva of this species near Florence, March 2nd, on the road leading 

 to Bello Sguardo; it was mining the upper side of the leaves of 

 Cratcegus pyracantha, loosening nearly the entire upper cuticle and 

 curving the leaves considerably. Unfortunately all the larvae I col- 

 lected died on the journey, and I did not rear a single specimen. 

 (See Ent. Ann. 1864, p. 168.) 



L. suberifoliella, Zeller. (See ante, pp. 70 & 89.) Of this I bred 

 a single specimen from a mined leaf of a species of Quercus, which I 

 had picked at Capo di Monte, Naples, on the 28th of March. Un- 

 fortunately I had leaves of several species of Quercus mixed together, 

 and cannot say with certainty which leaf produced the moth. 



Nepticula aurella, F. I bred one specimen of this from larvaB 

 collected in bramble-leaves on Monte Mario, near Rome, March 14th. 

 I also observed mines, which I presume to have been those of 

 N. aurella, near Florence. 



Nepticula, n. sp. ? On the 15th of March, whilst walking in the 

 grounds of the Villa Pamfili-Doria, at Rome, I observed in the 

 leaves of Quercus ilex the mines of a Nepticula. All were, however, 

 empty, though some were comparatively recent. I believe these 

 mines were distinct from those of the two species of Nepticula I 

 afterwards met with on Quercus suber at Cannes. 



SECTION II. 

 Tineina observed at Cannes and Mentone in March 1866. 



My correspondence with M. Milliere, who, after trying various 

 parts of the South of France, ultimately settled upon Cannes as his 

 winter residence, and letters I received from my friend the Rev. 

 Henry Burney during his visit to Mentone in the winter of 1864-65, 

 had kept up in me a constant desire again to revisit the sunny South ; 

 and at length, in the spring of 1866, I was able to put my long 

 cherished plan in execution. 



I left home on Monday the 5th of March, slept at Lyons on Wed- 

 nesday night, and on Thursday, March 8th, proceeded to Marseilles. 

 On my way thither I first noticed olive trees and Arundo donate 

 near Orange. The following day I proceeded to Cannes, arriving 

 there just at sunset, the Estrelles hills standing out conspicuously 

 against the glowing western sky. I remained only three days at 

 Cannes, and proceeded on the 13th of March to Mentone, where I 

 remained till the 28th of March. 



The Tineina collected or observed during this period were as 

 follows : 



Hyponomeuta eyreyiellus. G. cisti. 



Prays oleellus. G. biyuttella. 



Depressaria atomella. G. anthyllidella. 



Gelechia ? Butalis dorycniella. 



G. yypsopliilce. Acrolepia vesper ella. 



