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SPECIES OBSERVED B5T THE AUTHOR 



The other three specimens were bred from sand cocoons found at 

 the same time. (See Ent. Annual, 1868, p. 139.) 



The perfect insect, as Staudinger truly remarks, comes very near 

 to G. terrella, but is rather smaller and a neater-looking insect ; 

 the anterior wings are rather more pointed, and have a faint rosy 

 tinge. 



Gelechia Tialymella, Milliere. (See ante, p. 181.) Of this I bred 

 three specimens, April 12th, 30th, and May 1st, from larvae collected 

 at Cannes March 10th on Atriplex Tialymus. This Atripleoc is of 

 such a shrubby growth that one garden on the sandy ground near the 

 sea is hedged round with it. The larva of the Gelechia unites the 

 terminal leaves, and eats out the hearts of the shoots, burrowing 

 into one of the leathery leaves, which it bleaches ; it sometimes 

 assumes the pupa-state between the united leaves. The larva, from 

 its coloration, is evidently allied to the group of G. atriplicella. I 

 have thus described it : 



Length 4 lines ; pale green, with reddish-green dorsal, subdorsal, 

 and sub-subdorsal lines, the two latter rather wavy ; head black ; 

 second segment black, third segment brown. 



A younger larva scarcely showed any trace of the reddish lines. 



The imago may be readily distinguished from G. olsoletella, F. v. R., 

 by its yellower colour : it comes very close to G. salinella, Z. (see 

 ante, pp. 10 & 37), of which, through the kindness of Professor 

 Zeller, I possess a Sicilian specimen ; but I should not like to pro- 

 nounce them identical without seeing a good series of both species. 

 Judging from the few specimens of halymella which I have seen, 

 there is a conspicuous oblique grey streak from the costa, a little 

 before the middle, of which in salinella the traces are much fainter ; 

 but it must be borne in mind that we are comparing bred specimens 

 of halymella with caught specimens of salinella. 



Here I may mention a young larva which I found on the coast to 

 the east of Cannes on the 9th March, mining the leaflets of Artemisia 

 maritima : from its lively habit, it should probably be referred to the 

 genus Gelechia ; but as the young Iarva3 which I collected all died, I 

 am uncertain what the imago really would have been. The larva I 

 have thus described : 



Length barely 2 lines ; yellowish green, anteriorly paler, with a 

 dull red dorsal line, and two rows of reddish spots on each side 

 forming interrupted lines ; head yellowish ; the second segment 

 with a yellowish-brown plate, with two dark spots at its hinder 

 edge ; anal segment pale yellowish ; spots small, black. 



It mines the leaflets of the Artemisia maritima, and bleaches 

 them ; it also draws several together. 



Dr. Staudinger bred his Gelechia disjectella from Iarva3 which fed 

 on the shoots of Artemisia Barrelieri (see ante, p. 149). 



Gelechia yypsophilce, Stainton. At Mentone I again collected a 



