234 SPECIES OBSERVED BY THE AUTHOR 



When at Prague last summer I learnt from Herr Nickerl that 

 this species had occurred in 1867 by thousands near Prague, flying 

 at the end of May and beginning of June and again in July. In 

 the Vienna Museum I saw a specimen from Brussa. 



Coleophora vicinella, Zeller. On the 28th of April I received from 

 Mr. J. T. Moggridge, who had collected them near Albenga (on the 

 Italian coast between San Remo and Savona), some larva? of a 

 Coleoplwra feeding on Medicago sativa'l, which, I believe, were 

 those of vicinella. I fed them with a species of Trifolium from the 

 sandpit at Charlton, probably T. striatum, but I did not succeed in 

 rearing the perfect insect. 



The larva I have thus described : 



Length 3^ lines ; dull yellowish brown ; head black ; second seg- 

 ment with a large black plate above, leaving only the front edge 

 whitish ; third segment with four black plates ; anal segment with 

 a black plate. 



The case is made of silk, and consists of a central tube and two 

 lateral flaps, which surround and almost entirely conceal the tube, 

 these flaps, as in C. Lugduniella, being formed, as it were, of scales 

 of silk. 



Coleophora oclirea, Haworth. On the 28th of April I also received 

 from Mr. J. T. Moggridge, who had collected them at Albenga, some 

 larvae of this species, feeding on Heliantliemum fumana. I did not 

 take any special trouble about them (they were so manifestly 

 C. oehrea), and did not rear the imago. 



Chauliodus Staintonelliis, Milliere (see ante, p. 169). I received 

 some larva? of this species, which feeds on Osyris alba, from Monsieur 

 Milliere at Cannes, on the 18th of May ; the perfect insects appeared 

 the first week in June. (Eor description of both larva and imago, 

 see ante, p. 169.) 



Staymatopliora. Graboiviella, Staudinger (see ante, pp. 214 & 226). 

 On the 18th of May I also received from Monsieur Milliere, at 

 Cannes, some larva? of this species on TJiymus vulgaris. My previous 

 attempts to rear the imago from larva? collected in March had always 

 been unsuccessful ; but with these larva?, collected two months later, I 

 was more fortunate ; and two specimens were bred, one early in June 

 the other 011 the 5th of July. I had not the pleasure, however, of 

 seeing them alive, as they came out during my absence on the Con- 

 tinent, whilst my pupa? were under the charge of Mr. M'Lachlan. 



SECTION V. 



Tineina observed during my visit to Southern Europe in the winter 

 of 1868-69. 



On this occasion I left home December llth, spent the 17th and 

 18th December at Cannes, the 20th to 22nd at Mentone, thence by 

 the Riviera to Genoa, where we spent our Christmas; December 

 29th and 30th I was at Turin, whence we proceeded by the night- 



