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Florence on the 3rd of January, I was much pleased to find two 

 leaves of the Laurustinus there mined by a LithocoUetis-larva. From 

 one of these I was successful in rearing the imago, which proves to 

 be, as I had rather anticipated, LithocoHetis lantanella. 



Professor Frey had previously bred this from Viburnum opulus ; 

 hence it feeds on Viburnum lantana, opulus, and tinus. 



LithocoHetis Messaniella, Zeller. I collected some mined leaves of 

 Quercus ilex at the Villa Pamfili at Borne, but only obtained from 

 them the common L. Messaniella. 



Professor Zeller had urged me, in a letter I received from him at 

 Eome, to collect diligently the mined leaves of Quercus ilecc in hopes 

 of breeding other Southern species ; but in this I was not successful. 



Neither did I notice on Quercus ilecc any of the Nepticula-imnes 

 which I had observed in 1863 (see ante, p. 207). 



LithocoHetis leucographella, Zeller (see ante, pp. 70, 88, & 207). 

 On the 1st of January, when walking from Florence towards Bello 

 Sguardo, I noticed the mines of these larvae in the leaves of Cratceyus 

 pyracantha, precisely where I had seen them six years ago, and on the 

 5th of January I collected a few mines, though the larvae were then 

 mostly very young ; these, however, all died on the journey. But 

 when I returned to Florence at the end of February I found these 

 larvae far more developed, and, judging from the complete doubling 

 up of some of the leaves and the discoloration of the loosened upper 

 skin, many were probably already in the pupa-state ; so I devoted 

 some hours of the 26th and 27th of February to collecting these 

 mined leaves, from which I bred upwards of fifty of the perfect 

 insect; they began to appear April 14th, came out most freely 

 April 27th, 29th, and the last appeared on the 2nd of May. 



LithocoHetis ? When at Cannes, on the 18th December, I 



visited with Monsieur Milliere a little wood in which were many 

 bushes of Calycotome spinosa, and I found, to my delight, that some 

 of the small leaves of that plant were mined as though by the larva 

 of a LithocoHetis. I collected a few ; but unfortunately the moths 

 made their appearance on my journey before I expected them, and 

 their dried remains are so rubbed that is impossible to recognize the 

 species ; only it is undoubtedly a LithocoHetis. 



Nepticula euphorbiella, Stainton (see ante, p. 229). When at 

 Mentone, on the 21st of December, I went with Monsieur Demole (a 

 Swiss entomologist) towards Cape Martin, and noticed the empty 

 mines of this species on more than a dozen different bushes of 

 Euphorbia dendroides, at considerable intervals. 



