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are not in such a condition as to enable me to state with certainty 

 whether they should be referred to caiharticella or not. 



My description of the larva differs somewhat from the description 

 of the larva of caiharticella given in the first volume of the ' Natural 

 History of the Tineina ;' it was as follows : 



Length 2 lines ; pale amber, dorsal vessel greener ; head pale 

 brown, with the mouth and sutures darker, and with a short trans- 

 verse dark mark posteriorly. 



The mine is a broad gallery, almost a narrow blotch ; the old part 

 of the mine is brownish, the recent part pale green : the excrement, 

 dark brown, at first nearly occupies the whole width of the mine ; 

 afterwards it is blacker and only occupies the central portion of the 

 mine. 



Nepticula cryptella, Stainton. When at Cannes I had taken up a 

 plant or two of Dorycnium liirtum nearly by the roots, with which 

 to feed the Iarva3 of Gelechia biguttella found on it ; this was on the 

 9th of March ; on the 17th of that month a specimen of Nepticula 

 cryptella made its appearance in this tin, and I presume it must have 

 fed on the Dorycnium hirtum. 



Nepticula suberis, n. sp. Of this species I bred three specimens, 

 from green larvaa mining the leaves of the cork-tree (Quercus suber) 

 at Cannes March 7th and 9th. I cannot say when the perfect 

 insects appeared ; for I had quite despaired of breeding any, and had 

 put the box containing the cocoons and mined leaves into my cabinet 

 of economies, where some time afterwards I found three dead speci- 

 mens of the imago, which I then relaxed, and set as well as I 

 could. 



The larva I have thus described : 



Length 2 lines ; dull green, the dorsal vessel darker ; the posterior 

 segments tinged with yellowish ; head dark brown, the hind lobes 

 showing through the second segment of a brownish tinge ; on the 

 underside is a row of dark-brown spots. 



The mine is at first a slender, tortuous gallery filled up with dark- 

 brown excrement ; then it expands to a large pale-brown blotch, in 

 which the excrement forms a thick track. 



The perfect insect has some similarity to floslactella and solids ; 

 only the pale fascia is placed nearer the base of the wing than in 

 either of those species. It may be briefly described as follows : 



Exp. al. 2| lin. Head yellow. Anterior wings grey, coarsely 

 scaled, with a pale yellow, slightly oblique fascia, nearly in the 

 middle ; cilia clear pale yellow, intersected by a row of dark-grey 

 scales. 



Nepticula euphorbiella, n. sp. For the discovery of this species we 

 are certainly indebted to Mr. J. T. Moggridge, as it would scarcely 

 have occurred to me to look on one of the Euphorbice for a Nepticula- 

 mine. It was on the 23rd of March that, starting from Mentone 

 in the afternoon, we first went towards Cape Martin, and then to 

 Eoccabruna, and in the neighbourhood of the last-named place Mr. 

 Moggridge called my attention to some mined leaves on a bush of 



