232 SPECIES OBSERVED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1867. 



a little greener. (In Miss Wing's figure, made two or three days 

 after my description, the second segment bears about ten brown 

 spots.) 



Very active and slightly fusiform, feeding between the united 

 young leaves of Pistacia terebinthus. 



Butalis ? On the 5th of April I received from Monsieur 



Milliere at Cannes a larva, apparently of the genus Butalis, feeding 

 in the dried seed-head of a Daucus ; unfortunately I did not succeed 

 in rearing the perfect insect. The larva I have thus described : 



Length 3 lines ; pale ochreous grey, the anal segment a little 

 paler, with seven slender longitudinal dark fuscous lines, the broadest 

 and darkest of which are those representing the subdorsal lines ; 

 head black ; the second segment with a broad blackish plate on each 

 side, leaving a wide central space ochreous grey. 



Anchinia laureolella, H.-S. On the 25th of April I received from 

 Mr. J. T. Moggridge at Mentone some larvas feeding in the shoots 

 of Daphne gnidium, which I rather suspected at the time were 

 referable to the genus Anchinia ; and the pupation satisfied me that 

 my suspicion was correct. I bred one specimen of the perfect insect 

 on the 25th of May, and was not a little surprised, when I came to 

 examine it critically, to find it was the Alpine species, A. laureolella. 



A good character whereby to distinguish this from A. verrucella is 

 furnished by the sides of the thorax ; these are grey in laureolella, 

 dull red in verrucella. 



The larva I have thus described : 



Length 5 lines ; brown, with the dorsal line whitish ; spots black 

 in whitish rings; head pale yellowish brown, dotted with dark 

 brown ; the second segment pale yellowish brown in front, poste- 

 riorly with two black-brown crescentic marks ; anal segment blackish 

 brown ; above the legs is a whitish lateral stripe ; the anterior legs 

 are blackish, with the tips pale yellowish brown. 



A smaller larva (only 3| lines long) was dull greenish brown, 

 with the head black, a black transverse plate on the second segment, 

 and a small black plate on the anal segment. 



Coriscium Brongniardellum, Fabricius. On the 28th of April I 

 received from Mr. J. T. Moggridge at Mentone some Iarva3 of this 

 species feeding on the leaves of Quercus pubescens. I bred four 

 specimens of the imago, on the 19th and 25th of May. 



Stathmopoda Guerinii, Stainton (see ante, pp. 138, 139). On 

 the 7th of May I received from Mr. J. T. Moggridge at Mentone 

 two pupae in the stems of Pistacia terebinihus, and was not a little 

 surprised to rear therefrom two specimens of the interesting Stath- 

 mopoda Guerinii, which appeared on the 14th and 25th of May. 

 The pith of the stem appeared to have been eaten by the larvae. 



