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privet, and the amount of the excrement they deposited 

 showed that they really partook of tlie strange food I had 

 offered them; in due time, two specimens of the i?7iagowere 

 reared (May 1st and 3rd), from these larvffi, which had fed- 

 j\p on privet. 



■^Depressaria rutana, Fabricins. Of this species, so long 

 forgotten, I have now had the pleasure of making the per- 

 sonal acquaintance. Directly I arrived at Cannes, M. 

 Milliere proposed that we should make an excursion to the 

 Isle St. Marguerite; so, as a natural result, we had a series 

 of windy days, making the boat-trip thither unpleasant or 

 impossible; I began at last to think the excursion never 

 would be carried out : however the morning of Monday, 

 March 11th, was propitious, the sea was beautifully calm ; 

 and I had the pleasure of visiting the island in company 

 with M. and Madame Milliere, Dr. and Madame Segnac. 



Directly we landed, the large tufts of rue {JRutd anrjusti- 

 folia) attracted my attention, as here was the locality where 

 M. Milliere had promised I should find the larvaj of D. 

 rutana ; after much search on my part, and much beating 

 into his umbrella, on the part of M. Milliere, the result was 

 one larva of D. rutana. M. Milliere could only account 

 for our bad success by suggesting that we were rather early 

 for the species, the season being comparatively a backward 

 one. 



On the 14th March, the day after my arrival at Mentone, 

 I visited the rocky slope above Pont St. Louis, in company 

 with Mr. J. T. Moggridge, and there found one small larva 

 of D. rutana. I searched again and again in that locality, 

 and also in other localities wherever I met with Ruta, but 

 to no purpose till, on the 21st of March, I visited the prin- 

 cipality of Monaco. The sides of the promontory are laid 

 out here and there in a series of terraced, zig-zag walks; 



