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SPECIES OBSERVED BY THE AUTHOR 



tifolia much eaten, and soon recognized the peculiar habitations of 

 Depressaria rutana, of which I collected several larvae ; I had to 

 revisit the locality at intervals to obtain food for them. From the 

 larvae thus obtained I reared two specimens of the imago on the 

 12th and 25th March. 



It seemed a curious coincidence, meeting this striking Fabrician 

 species, always interesting from having been, as it were, lost for up- 

 wards of half a century, in the ruins of the Flavian Amphitheatre. 



Da&ycera sulphurella, Fabricius. I found a specimen of this on the 

 trunk of a Quercus ilex in the Villa Reale, Naples, February 14th. 



Zelleria oleastrella, Milliere (see ante, p. 215). On the 17th De- 

 cember*, at Cannes, I had the good fortune to find a single larva of 

 this species on the underside of an olive-leaf. I looked long, in 

 hopes of finding others, but was not successful. 



The larva found was nearly full-fed, and soon spun up. The imago 

 made its appearance on the 6th of February, the day we went from 

 Naples to Sorrento. 



Elachista disemiella, Zeller (see ante, pp. 13 & 48). When at 

 Tivoli, on the 21st of February, I noticed in the tufts of Aira cces- 

 pitosa growing on some of the lower terraces near the waterfalls, 

 some mines of the larva of an Elachista, and collected about a dozen 

 of them. I might have collected many more ; but, in the first place, 

 I knew the extreme difficulty in rearing these grass-feeding larvae, 

 a difficulty much increased when travelling ; and, in the second place, 

 the character of the mine was so ordinary, I thought in all proba- 

 bility the Iarva3 would produce some common well-known species. 



The larvae were probably almost full-fed when I found them ; for 

 though some were still unchanged several weeks afterwards, I appre- 

 hended they could not have eaten much after I collected them, and 

 they seemed to remain attached to the exterior of the grass for some 

 time before assuming the pupa-state. 



Five at any rate went safely into pupae, and five specimens of the 

 perfect insect appeared, May 5th, 8th, 14th, 16th, and 19th. 



I had no difficulty at all in recognizing them as identical with a 

 Sicilian specimen of E. disemiella I had received from Professor 

 Zeller. 



Tischeria angusticollella, Zeller. I bred two specimens of this 

 insect from leaves of the evergreen rose (Rosa sempervirens} collected 

 at Florence January 6th and February 27th ; the moths appeared 

 March 19th and April 18th. 



Tischeria Dodoncea, Stainton. At Cannes, on the 18th of December, 

 I found a mine of this species on a leaf of Quercus pubescens. 



Lithocolletis lantanella, Schrank. Two years ago Monsieur Milliere 

 had called my attention to a Lithocolletis larva in the leaves of Lau- 

 rustinus (Viburnum tinus), and had sent me some mines from which 

 I unfortunately bred nothing ; and I believe Monsieur Milliere was 

 not more successful : on visiting the Boboli Gardens, therefore, at 

 * This was one of the finest and hottest days we had all the winter. 



