OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 143 



Of tills weil-marked species I have had the pleasure of breed- 

 ing five specimens. Their history is as follows : — 



On the 18th of March, 1867, I received in the evening a 

 letter from Mr. J. T. Moggridge — *' I enclose a few red 

 larvae, with black heads, which have robbed me of all the 

 seeds of the wild wallflower, gathered by my father at Dolce 

 Acqua." The larva was new to me, and as a seed-feeder I 

 expected some species of G^cophora; I described it thus: — 



Lengths'"; dull red; head black; second segment rather 

 daj'ker red, and with a subcutaneous dark grey mark of ir- 

 regular form. Feeds on the seed of the wild wallflower 

 (C/ieiranthis Clieiri). 



I was not a little surprised, when from these larvae I bred, 

 on the 30th June, three specimens of an insect which was 

 only previously known to me from a specimen which I had 

 received from Professor Zeller under the name of Gdechia 

 torridella, when I visited him at Glogau in 1855. This 

 Zellerian specimen was captured near Syracuse on the 3rd of 

 May, 1844. I bred another specimen on the 2nd of July, and 

 another on the loth of that month. 



The perfect insect when sitting had a peculiar posture, the 

 anterior portion of the body being slightly raised, something 

 like the position of Gdechia Mouffetella when at rest, which 

 is unlike that of any other Gelechia which I know. 



I hope next spring the seeds of the wild wall-flower at 

 Dolce Acqua will be again collected— never was a truer in- 

 stance of the old proverbs — 



" XotliiDo's lost that a friend gets," 

 And 



" It's a:i ill wind that blows nobody any good." 



Wallflowei* grows wild abundantly in many parts of England, 

 so possibly v/e may some day turn up Ypsoloplius triii otellus. 

 The specimen described by Herrich-Schuffer was captured 



