AT CANNES AND MENTONE IN 1867. 219 



which, though so plentiful on that island, has not been detected 

 on the mainland near Cannes. Of the three species of Depressaria 

 attached to Ferula which M. Milliere has met with at Hyeres, only 

 nodiflorella has, up to the present time, been noticed at the He Ste.- 

 Marguerite ; and for this we were almost too early. 



Monsieur Milliere soon showed me the habit of the larva uniting 

 several of the linear leaflets together with a slight web, and I 

 collected several of them ; only one, however, was of a respectable 

 size, and I found that the very small larvaB still feeding within the 

 leaves, as miners, were far the most plentiful. 



The bulk of these larvaa, however, died before attaining the pupa- 

 state, and I only had the pleasure of rearing one specimen of the 

 imago, which appeared on the 28th of April. 



The larva I have thus described : 



Length 7-8 lines ; pale green, with the slender dorsal and broader 

 subdorsal lines dark green ; the subdorsal lines are rather more dis- 

 tinct than the dorsal line ; head pale yellowish brown ; the second 

 segment anteriorly yellowish, posteriorly green, with a small curved 

 black mark on each side ; legs pale green. 



The young mining larva, 2^ lines in length, has the head black, 

 and a black plate on the second segment ; the subdorsal lines at 

 that age are not developed. 



The perfect insect reminds one much of D. rotundella, but is rather 

 larger (exp. al. 9 lin., whereas rotundella is only 8 lin.) ; the anterior 

 wings are broader, and posteriorly suffused with longitudinal grey 

 streaks. Nodiflorella shows four distinct black spots, the first just 

 below the subcostal nervure, the second a little beyond it on the disk, 

 and the third and fourth also on the disk, in a line with the second. 

 I have compared one of Professor Zeller's Sicilian specimens of D. 

 peloritanella both with nodiflorella and rotundella, and still hold it 

 identical with the last-named species. 



Gelechia flgulella, Staudinger. (See ante, p. 149.) Of this species 

 I had the good fortune to breed four specimens, on the 6th, 8th, 10th, 

 and 27th of April. The last specimen was bred from a larva found 

 on the 28th of February in the sand at the roots of some plants of 

 Silene nicceensis, in a sandy wood near the sea to the east of 

 Cannes. 



This larva spun up the very day I described it, and may therefore 

 be assumed to have lost some of its characteristic colouring. I have 

 described it thus : 



Length nearly 6 lines ; whitish ochreous ; the head pale brown, 

 with the mouth darker ; the second segment with a dark brown 

 semicrescent on each side ; dorsal line slender, reddish ochreous ; 

 subdorsal lines dark brown, paler anteriorly ; spots minute, black ; 

 anal segment glassy. 



As this larva did not feed after I found it, I cannot say what is 

 its food-plant, unless it fed on the Silene nicceensis, at the roots of 

 which it was found. I cannot call to mind that there was any moss 

 where I found it ; the sand was perfectly loose and shifting. 



