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CHAPTER VIII. 



FRENCH AUTHORS. 



IN this chapter I have given a list of the Tineina from the south of 

 France which are noticed by Godart and Duponchel in their ' Lepi- 

 dopteres de France.' 

 They are as follows : 



Yponomeuta acanthella. Adda Donzelella. 



Euplocamus morellus. 8tenoptera orbonella. 



Lita triguttella. Elachista Boyerella. 



Adela Latreillella. Ornioc argentipennella. 



A. Dumerilella. Euplocamus fulvimitrellus. 



A. unipunctella. lihinosia sordidella. 



A. violella. Anacampsis interruptella. 



A. cuprella. Adela Aglaella. 



A. scabioseUa. Tinea picarella. 



A. aurifrontella. (EcopJiora olwella. 



A. Solierella. 



Yponomeuta acanthella, Godart (L. F. v. p. 38, pi. 44. f. 4). Found 

 on thorn-bushes in the centre and south of France. 



Duponchel (xi. p. 317) places it in the genus Lita, and adds 

 " Dr. Rambur, who has met with it near Montpellier, assured me 

 he had obtained it from a larva which fed on the lichen on walls, 

 concealed under a little white web, which shelters it and never 

 contains more than one." [Herrich-Schaffer mentions its occur- 

 rence in the south of Spain ; and Zeller, who correctly refers it to 

 the genus Butalis, adds that Mann met with it in Croatia in June. 

 This conspicuous insect is so well known that I do not need to 

 quote the description*.] 



Euplocamus morellus, Duponchel (L. F. xi. p. 79, pi. 288. f. 5). M. 

 Barthelemy, Conservator of the Museum of Natural History at 

 Marseilles, obtained this species from a larva which he found in 

 an excrescence on the trunk of a white mulberry- tree. [Described, 

 see p. 260.] 



Lita triguttella, Duponchel (L. F. xi. p. 332, pi. 298. f. 14). This 

 species was received from Baron Feisthamel, who took it June 

 28th, near Domo-Dossola. [This is the scopolella, Hiibner, 246, 

 a true Butalis ; and, according to Reutti, the larva feeds on Sedum 

 album.~\ 



* Zeller's diagnosis (Linn. Ent. x. p. 261) is briefly thus: Media, alls ante- 

 rioribus elongatis obtusis albis, basi et apice schistaceo-maculatis, fascia media 

 schistacea, puncto postico nigro. 



