AT CANNES AND MENTONE IN 1866. 213 



Acrolepia vesperella, Z. (see ante, pp. 64 & 81, also Acrolepia 

 smilaccella, p. 189). When at Cannes, Monsieur Milliere had called 

 my attention to the marks on the leaves of the Smilaoc aspera caused 

 by the larva of his Acrolepia smilaxella, and I kept constantly on 

 the look-out for these larvae ; but I had been at Mentone several days 

 before I found the first, on the 18th of March ; I then found them 

 more freely on the 21st, on the slope of a hill near the Cabrolles 

 valley. 



The larva at first makes small clean mines in the leaves, the ex- 

 crement being ejected through a hole on the underside of the leaf ; 

 it afterwards gnaws the leaves half through from the underside and 

 then forms a covering for itself of " Frass " and web. When full- 

 fed it spins a rather firm brown cocoon, at one end of which an open 

 slit is left, through which the cast skin of the larva is eventually 

 ejected. 



The larva I have thus described : 



Length 3 lines ; dull greenish grey, the dorsal vessel darker, the 

 sides paler ; head pale yellowish brown ; second segment of the same 

 colour, with two transverse rows of small black spots ; the spots on 

 the third and fourth segments are distinctly perceptible, but not 

 those on the other segments. 



Sometimes this larva has a very handsome appearance, showing 

 deep-red subdorsal stripes. 



I bred the perfect insects from April 16th to 26th. 



ColeopTiora pyrrliulipenneUa, Zeller. When collecting with Mon- 

 sieur Milliere at Cannes on the llth of March, I found several cases 

 on Erica scoparia, which I believe were referable to this species. I 

 did not, however, rear the imago. 



ColeopTiora congeriella, Staudinger (see ante, p. 159). The larvae 

 of this species were by no means scarce, principally on Dorycnium 

 suffruticosum, but also occasionally on D. hirtum ; I found them at 

 Cannes March 10th, and at Mentone March 14th to 23rd ; on the 

 last date, up the Cabrolles valley, they were very plentiful. I did 

 not, however, succeed in rearing a single specimen of the imago. 



The case is formed of pieces of mined leaf successively added ; the 

 tail part of the case turns over on the underside and gives the crea- 

 ture rather an Armadillo look. 



Coleophora ccelebipennella, Zeller. I found three larvae on Heli- 

 chrysum stcechas at Mentone on the 21st of March, which I believe, 

 from their cases, to have been this species. I did not, however, rear 

 the imago. 



Coleophora chamcedryella, Bruand. I repeatedly found larvae on 

 the Teucrium chamcedrys at Mentone March 14th to 26th, which I 

 believe, from their cases, should be referred to this species. I did 

 not, however, rear any. 



Bedellia somnulentella, Zeller. The mines of the larva of this 

 species were very plentiful in the leaves of Convolvulus althceoides at 

 Mentone ; and I also found a few in leaves of C. cantabrica near 



