T1NEINA FROM SOUTHERN EUROPE IN 1868. 233 



SECTION IV. 

 Larvae of Tineina received from Southern Europe in 1868. 



As I did not visit the South in the spring of 1868 I was entirely 

 dependent on my correspondents for anything of interest ; and the 

 season, owing to the extreme drought, was, I believe, exceptionally 

 unfavourable. 



The following are the only species I have to notice : 



Gelechia hyoscyamella. Coleophora ochrea. 



Ypsolophus trinotellus. Chauliodus Staintonellus. 



Coleophora vicinella. Stagmatophora Orabowiella. 



Gelechia hyoscyamella, Milliere in litt. I received from Monsieur 

 Milliere at Cannes on the 17th of March a larva of this insect, 

 which feeds on Hyoscyamus albus, and for which he had made a 

 special excursion to the He St. Honore (the further of the two islands 

 near Cannes), but had only succeeded in finding one solitary larva. 

 It fortunately fed upon the piece of plant sent with it, and produced 

 the perfect insect on the 5th of May. 



It is closely allied to Gelechia costella (which feeds on Solanum 

 dulcamara), but is, I think, distinct; it is paler in colour, the an- 

 terior wings are rather broader, and the anterior edge of the dark 

 costal blotch stops short before the fold, whereas in costella I believe 

 it always reaches the fold. 



The larva I have thus described : 



Length 5J lines; pale greenish grey, with dull reddish dorsal, 

 subdorsal, and lateral lines ; the dorsal line more slender and more 

 defined than in costella ; the subdorsal geminated and interrupted, 

 just as in costella ; head yellowish brown ; second segment with a 

 large black plate above, scarcely divided in the centre ; third seg- 

 ment rather darker than the following segments; anal segment 

 with a black plate ; ordinary spots very minute. 



It mines and puckers the leaves of Hyoscyamus albus. 



Of the imago the following brief description must suffice for the 

 present : 



Exp. al. 6 J lin. Head, thorax, and anterior wings pale ochreous, 

 the latter with a dark grey blotch from the costa, darkest and most 

 sharply defined at its slightly oblique anterior edge ; it stops short 

 before the fold and is posteriorly attenuated and gradually shades off 

 into the paler ground-colour ; on the disk are two black spots, the 

 anterior of which is in the costal blotch and sometimes surrounded 

 with a pale ring ; the pale hinder fascia is very faintly indicated ; 

 the apex of the costa and hind margin are spotted with grey, and 

 there is a darker grey (almost black) spot at the extreme apex of 

 the wing. 



Ypsoloplius trinotellus, H.-S. (see ante, p. 222). On the 27th of 

 March I received from Mr. J. T. Moggridge, at Mentone, some larvas 

 of this species in the seeds of Moricandia arvensis. a stock-like plant 

 which grows in some plenty about Ventimiglia. The perfect insects 

 made their appearance May 22nd to June 1st. 



