226 SPECIES OBSERVED BY THE AUTHOR 



attached to the stem of the plant, except in colour, it much resem- 

 bles the strong spines of the Calycotome. 



The larva attaches its case to the underside of a leaf of the plant, 

 and then bores into the interior and eats out the parenchyma, the 

 devoured leaf becoming of a dull dark brown. 



These larvae continued to feed for two or three weeks after I had 

 them ; and the perfect insects appeared from May 9th to June 24th. 



I then recognized them as identical with an unnamed species of 

 Coleophom I had received from Dr. Staudinger in 1863 as reared 

 from a Genista in Old Castile. 



Last summer, when at Dresden looking through his collection, I 

 saw that he had given it the MS. name of calycotomella, which I 

 have much pleasure in retaining. 



The imago may be briefly described as follows : 



Exp. al. 6-6 1 lin. Head white, mixed with pale grey in tho 

 centre of the crown. Palpi white, the second joint externally grey. 

 Antennae with the basal joint rather thickened, and more or less 

 tinged with pale grey, the remaining joints entirely white. 



Anterior wings white, with four dark grey longitudinal streaks 

 along the principal veins, that on the subcostal nervure being 

 branched ; the extreme edge of the costa is dark grey at the base, 

 and there is a slender dark grey streak between the subcostal ner- 

 vure and the costa; there are also faint slender interrupted grey 

 streaks along the disk and along the fold ; the cilia are whitish, 

 with the tips more grey. 



Bedellia somnulentella, Zeller. I again noticed the larva) of this 

 species commonly in the leaves of Convolvulus althceoides, both at 

 Cannes and Mentone. 



Stagmatopliora Grabowiella, Staudinger (see ante, p. 214). I again 

 collected the larvae of this species in great plenty at Cannes, March 3rd 

 and 4th, on Lavandula stcechas ; the black cases are readily percepti- 

 ble when we look down upon the plants vertically. At Mentone, 

 on the 14th March, Mr. J. T. Moggridge found some larvae of the 

 same species on Thymus. I again failed in my attempts to rear the 

 imago, probably from collecting the larvaB too early in the season. 



Urodela, n. g., cisticolella, n. sp. On the 7th March, when col- 

 lecting with Monsieur Milliere on the hill above the BeUevue Hotel 

 at Cannes, I found a larva mining a leaf of Cistus monspeliensis, 

 forming a slightly puckered blotch. It rained nearly the whole of 

 the following day, so that I could not go to the same locality ; but 

 on the 9th I went in search of this new larva, and higher up the 

 hill collected several of them ; I also found one near the coast. On 

 the llth I found the same larva on the He Ste. -Marguerite ; I after- 

 wards noticed it at Mentone. At the time, I apprehended that it 

 would produce some species of Laverna. 



The larva I have thus described : 



Length 2i lines ; broadest anteriorly ; dull dark olive-grey, with 

 faint indications of the dorsal and subdorsal lines ; head black ; 



