228 SPECIES OBSEKVED BY THE AUTHOR 



numerous scattered whitish scales from the base to the hind margin ; 

 cilia pale grey. Posterior wings and cilia pale grey. 



Elachista gleichenella , Fabricius. As already noticed (see ante, 

 p. 214), I bred a specimen of this species from larvae collected in the 

 leaves of Carex basilaris, in the " Primrose Valley," at Mentone, 

 March 15th ; the imago appeared May 29th. 



Elachista chrysodesmella, Zeller. I bred a female of this species 

 on the 20th April, from a single larva which I found at Mentone, on 

 the 17th March, mining the tip of a grass like an Air a and of which 

 I cannot give the name ; it was growing by the road beyond the 

 cemetery. I had previously only bred this species from larvae col- 

 lected at Zurich, along with Professor Frey, in the leaves of Carex 

 montana. 



Elachista pollinarieUa, Zeller. I noticed two or three of this 

 flying near the ground at Mentone on the 20th March ; as they sat 

 occasionally for a few seconds, I examined them closely to satisfy 

 myself it was truly this species ; but I did not catch any. 



Liihocolletis Messaniella, Zeller. On some cork-trees (Quercus 

 suber) at Cannes I collected a number of leaves mined by Litho- 

 colletis-la,Tv& March 7th and 9th, but obtained nothing from them 

 but Messaniella. 



Liihocolletis trifasciella, Haworth. On the 24th of March I bred 

 a specimen of this from leaves of Lonicera implexa collected at the 

 He Ste. -Marguerite, near Cannes, on the llth March. 



Phyllobrostis daphneella, Staudinger (see ante, pp. 163 & 214). I 

 again collected several of the larvae of this species at Cannes and 

 Mentone, and bred a nice series from May 4th to 19th. 



Nepticula suberivora, n, sp. Of this unicolorous species I bred 

 three specimens from yellow larvae found in the leaves of the cork- 

 tree (Quercus suber} at Cannes, March 9th. The perfect insects 

 appeared April 8th, 23rd, and 28th. 



The larva I have thus described : 



Length 2| lines ; pale amber, dorsal vessel slightly darker ; head 

 pale yellowish brown, with the mouth and sutures darker. 



The mine is a long tortuous gallery, gradually increasing in width, 

 often following the margin of the leaf, the excrement occupying the 

 centre of the mine. 



The imago may be thus briefly described : 



Exp. al. 3 lin. Head yellow. Anterior wings dark grey (darker 

 than in any other unicolorous grey species), with no metallic gloss, 

 and with a very faint purple tinge beyond the middle ; cilia paler 

 grey. 



Nepticula catharticella, Stainton ? On the 14th of March I col- 

 lected some Nepticula -larvae on Rhamnus alaternus, on the rocky 

 ground near Pont St. Louis, at Mentone. Prom these I bred two 

 specimens of the imago, April 30th and May 10th ; but the specimens 



