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train to Florence, arriving there, in a deluge of rain, on the last day 

 of the old year ; leaving Florence on the 6th January for Pisa, I 

 proceeded the following day to Leghorn, and on the 9th January 

 left Leghorn for Rome ; three weeks were spent at Rome, and from 

 February 1st to 17th I was at Naples (excepting from the 6th to 

 9th, which were devoted to Sorrento) ; the 19th to 25th February 

 I was again at Rome, spent the 26th and 27th at Florence, and, 

 except meeting Chevalier Grhiliani at Turin on the 3rd of March, I 

 had no opportunity of doing anything more in entomology tilj. after 

 I returned home on the 9th of March. I should premise that, 

 judging from what I saw on this journey, it is a mistake for the 

 entomologist in mid-winter to go further south than Cannes and 

 Mentone ; it realizes the old saying of " going further and faring 

 worse." One loses the protection of the Alpine chain directly to 

 the north, and also the advantage of a due southern aspect, and the 

 difference in vegetation is very perceptible. My advice to any one 

 wishing to explore the entomological riches of the South would be 

 to remain at Cannes or Mentone till spring was well advanced, and 

 in April to try his luck at Sorrento and Naples, and in May explore 

 the Campagna about Rome. 



The only Tineina I have to mention as observed on this journey 

 are the following thirteen : 



Tinea vinculella. T. Dodoncea. 



Teichobia Verlmellella. Lithocolletis lantanella. 



Depressaria rutana. L. Messaniella. 



Dasycera sulphurella. L. leucographella. 



Zelleria oleastrella, L. on Calycotome spinosa. 



Elachista disemiella. Nepticula euphorbiella. 

 Tischeria angusticollella. 



Tinea vinculella, H.-S. On the 5th of January, when walking 

 from Florence towards Bello Sguardo, and looking on the walls for 

 spiders with which to feed a Mantis (Empusa pauperatd) which I 

 had brought with me from Cannes, I noticed a case which appeared 

 to be that of T. vinculella. I boxed it as a curiosity before I dis- 

 covered that it contained a living larva. 



On the 14th of February, at Naples, I found these cases were 

 plentiful in the Yilla Reale on the trunks of Quercus ilex, and I col- 

 lected many of them ; for a tree-trunk was to me quite a new habitat 

 for a larva I had previously found only on walls. These larvae are 

 difficult to rear in confinement, unless nearly full-fed when collected ; 

 and in this instance I have not, so far, succeeded in obtaining a 

 single imago. 



Teichobia Verhuellella, Stainton. When at Turin, on the 29th 

 December, I found a larva of this species 011 Asplenium ruta-muraria, 

 which was growing on a wall leading up to Santa Margarita. 



Depressaria rutana, Fabricius (see ante, p. 217). On visiting the 

 Coliseum at Rome on the 12th of January, and ascending to the 

 upper galleries, I noticed on the first gallery a plant of Ruta anyus- 



