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hepariella fifteen years ago, to this day we are ignorant of 

 the larvae of all our British species. Now, near Cannes, 

 M. Milliere, whose praiseworthy researches into the habits 

 of the Lepidoptera of Provence are conferring a great boon 

 on the Entomologists all over Europe, has met with the 

 larva of a Zelleria, closely allied to Hepariella^ and I liave 

 handled these larvte by the dozen, and have described them 

 and had them figured. M. Milliere, in the eighteenth number 

 of his " Iconographie et Description de Chenilles et Le- 

 pidopteres inedits," figures the transformations of this new 

 species, and describes it under the name of Zelleria Philly- 

 rella; but to this subject I shall again recur in its proper 

 place. 



The species marked* are not yet known as British. 



^ Hyponorneufa cgrerjiella, Duponchel (see E. A. 1867, 

 p. 17). I renewed my acquaintance with the larva of this 

 species, in the first week in March, and found, in some lo- 

 calities about Cannes, the insect was particularly plentiful ; 

 individual bushes of JErica scoparia appearing quite full of 

 their wliite webs. At Mentone I have not yet found this 

 species 5 but as on the eve of my quitting that spot, I, in 

 company with Mr. J. T. Moggridge, noticed a considerable 

 quantity of the Erica scoparia on the ridge (where Arhutus 

 grows so freely) between the Cabrolles valley and the 

 Gorbio valley, I should not be surprised if hereafter the 

 Egregiella should be found there. 



When at Fontainebleau, on the 1st of April, M. Berce 

 shewed me some specimens of II. egregiella, from the forest 

 there, and his note respecting them was as follows ; — " Che- 

 " nille vivante en societe sur les bruyeres en Mai, eclos fin 

 " de Mai, Fontainebleau, (1857)." That very afternoon, 

 whilst making a ramble together through the forest, we fell 

 in with the larva?, in far greater profusion than I had ever 



