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second segment with a yellowish-grey blotch, with four darker grey 

 spots at its hinder edge. 



It mines the leaves and burrows down the shoots of Helichrysum 

 stcechas. 



Perittia*! When I visited the He Ste.-Marguerite, near Cannes, 

 on the llth of March, I found two leaves of a Lonicera (which, 

 according to Mr. J. T. Moggridge's determinations, is probably im- 

 plexa) mined by a small larva which I doubtingly refer to the 

 genus Perittia. Of the two which I found, one was apparently 

 dead ; the other I sent to Miss Wing, to be figured ; and though I 

 thereby secured the portrait of the larva and its mine, I lost my 

 chance of rearing it, the larva becoming a martyr to science. 



The smaller larva, which was apparently dead, I extracted from 

 the leaf, and described it thus : 



Length little more than 1 line ; pale yellow, with the head 

 yellowish brown ; the head pointed ; second segment broadest ; the 

 third, fourth, and fifth gradually decreasing in width, then nearly 

 uniform ; very flat ; no legs visible. 



The larger larva I described, as well as I could through the leaf, 

 thus : 



Length 2 lines ; pale yellow ; head pale brown ; second segment 

 whitish. (Miss Wing assures me there were very evident legs to 

 the larva she figured.) 



This forms a large flat white blotch on the upperside of the leaves 

 of the honeysuckle ; the central portion of the white blotch, when 

 large, becomes of a pale brown ; the excrement is placed round the 

 margin of the mine, leaving the central area clear. 



My attention having once been called to this interesting larva, I 

 kept constantly on the look-out for it during my subsequent visit to 

 Mentone, but did not again see any symptoms of it. 



Zelleria phillyrella, Milliere (see ante, p. 190). At Cannes on the 

 3rd of March Monsieur Milliere, by beating a bush of Phillyrea 

 angustifolia, then very full of blossom, succeeded in obtaining a 

 number of the larvse of this species, and very liberally supplied me 

 with several of them ; afterwards, assisted by my late friend Mr. 

 Henry Wade Battersby, I obtained in the same locality some more 

 of them by beating ; but though I devoted much time to them, I 

 altogether failed to find these larvae in situ by searching. 



Monsieur Milliere, who preferred beating into his umbrella to eye- 

 hunting, had in this case the advantage of me. 



The larva I have thus described : 



Length 4 lines ; greenish at the sides and beneath, the entire 

 dorsal region reddish as far as the subdorsal lines; dorsal line 

 darker; spots pale green, very small; head and second segment 

 pale dull yellowish. Attenuated anteriorly, slightly so posteriorly, 

 with sixteen legs. 



The younger larvse are green, without the reddish tinge. 



It forms webs amongst the flowers of the PhiUyrea, on which it 



