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The mine is a long, slender gallery ; it generally begins near the 

 centre of the leaf, runs towards the base, and then returns along the 

 margin ; the excrement is brownish. 



Many of the mines were already empty, and perhaps a week or 

 ten days later I should have been too late to find these larvae. 



Here terminates the record of my own doings during the month 

 I was at Cannes and Mentone ; but after I had returned home I re- 

 ceived some interesting larvae from my friends Mr. J. T. Moggridge 

 and Monsieur Milliere, which I will now notice. 



Phibalocera quercana, Fabricius. In April 1867 Monsieur Milliere 

 found a larva on the leaves of Arbutus unedo, of which he sent me 

 two specimens. It fed on the underside of the leaf, under a slight 

 straight web. From its appearance and habit I expected it would 

 produce the somewhat polyphagous Phibalocera quercana, and on the 

 10th of May a specimen of that moth made its appearance. 



Depressaria rhodochrella, H.-S. On the 18th May, 1867, Monsieur 

 Milliere sent me three freshly pinned specimens of a Depressaria 

 which I refer to this species. Monsieur Milliere wrote concerning 

 them as follows : " Je vous envoye trois individus d'une Depressaria, 

 qui peut-etre vous arriveront vivants et qui viennent d'eclore. La 

 chenille a beaucoup de rapport avec celle de la propinquella, dont 

 elle a les mo3urs et se nourrit a Cannes, sur la meme plante. Elle 

 nc parait pas rare." 



Gelechia ? On the 28th of April I received from Mr. J. T. 



Moggridge, at Mentone, larvae feeding 011 the young leaves of Pistacia 

 terebinthus, a plant on which I had asked him to search, as I especially 

 wished to obtain Herrich-Schaffer's Gelechia terebinihella. 



On the 9th of June I bred in the cage in which I had put these 

 larvae a specimen of a Gelechia which I can hardly distinguish from 

 G. humeralis, Zeller. It is certainly not Herrich-Schaffer's terebin- 

 thella ; for when at Vienna last summer I saw a specimen of that 

 insect in the Museum collection, and have noted that it is " a broad 

 winged insect, broader than fugacella, with distinct raised buttons, 

 and apical streak as in sequax " and a reference to Herri ch-Schaffer 

 will show that this agrees well with his figure 597. 



Fortunately I have a second specimen of the same insect, which 

 was given me by Monsieur Milliere at Cannes ; but this only tends 

 to increase the confusion, for he says he bred it from Lotus hirtus. 

 This specimen had been submitted to Dr. Staudinger for his opinion, 

 and that entomologist returned it labelled " Gelechia pres Strelitziella." 



The perfect insect is extremely like G. humeralis, with the same 

 short black streak at the base of the costa ; but it is a trifle smaller, 

 it has the anterior wings narrower than G. fiigitivella, thus much 

 narrower than G. fucjacella, and there is no symptom of the apical 

 streak which G. terebinthella possesses. 



The larva I have thus described : 



Length 5 lines ; pale green, the dorsal region rather darker ; spots 

 small, grey ; the head yellowish green, and the second segment only 



