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feeds ; I believe several of my larvae fell victims to the jaws of their 

 brethren, so that it does not appear to be of a social disposition. 

 When full-fed the larvae spin opaque-white cocoons, not unlike those 

 of Swammerdamia and Aryyresthia. 



The duration of the pupa-state was not long, as the perfect insects 

 unfortunately began to emerge before I reached home (making their 

 appearance at Fontainebleau and Paris) : the first appeared April 2nd; 

 and by the 7th all were bred, except one, which came out on the 13th 

 April. 



The perfect insect, though closely allied to Z. hepariella (which 

 frequents yew trees in July), may be readily distinguished by the 

 following characters : The anterior wings are narrower, more 

 shining, of a paler colour, with a faintly indicated whitish basal 

 streak just above the fold ; on the fold beyond the middle is a black 

 spot ; and in the specimen bred on the 13th April there are several 

 small black spots towards the costa. The posterior wings are also 

 both narrower and paler ; and the tuft of the head is paler, almost 

 whitish. (See also Nat. Hist. Tineina, vol. xi. p. 100, pi. 3. fig. 1.) 



Gradlaria auroguttella, Haworth. I captured a specimen of this 

 near Cannes as it was flying in the afternoon on the 10th of March. 



Coleophora pyrrhulipennella, Zeller. I again noticed many of the 

 larvae of this species at Cannes on the Erica scoparia, and also found 

 them on that plant at Mentone on the ridge between the Gorbio and 

 Cabrolles valleys on the 26th of March. I did not rear any of the 

 perfect insects. 



Coleophora congeriella, Staudinger. I again collected the larvae 

 of this species both at Cannes and Mentone on Dorycnium suffru- 

 ticosum and D. hirtum. I had quite despaired of rearing the perfect 

 insects ; but after the box containing the cases had been put away in 

 my collection of economies of insects, several of the moths made 

 their appearance ; when, I know not. 



Coleophora calycotomella, Staudinger in litt. On the 1st of March 

 Monsieur Milliere and I visited the little wood near the Hotel de 

 Provence, at Cannes, and, after beating several bushes of Calycotome 

 spinosa, Monsieur Milliere found in his umbrella a long brown 

 Coleophora-a&SQ which was new to both of us ; I then commenced 

 searching on the plants, and succeeded in finding two more ; the 

 next day I found eleven in that locality, and two others to the west 

 of Cannes. On the 5th of March I collected seven more in the 

 original locality. 



This larva I have thus described : 



Length 4| lines; brown ; head black-brown ; the second segment 

 with a large black-brown plate divided down the centre ; third seg- 

 ment with two large dark brown spots; fourth segment with two 

 small dark brown spots, each of these segments with a small black 

 spot on each side. 



The case, 6-7 lines long, is formed of pieces of mined leaf; it is 

 nearly straight, slightly curved, and attenuated posteriorly ; when 



