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of this species in great plenty on the 1 6th of August at Blair 

 Athol, especially on one individual alder bush; I also found 

 them tolerably common at Dunkeld and not rare at Pit- 

 lochrie. I have now a goodly number of fed-up larvae, and 

 hope next season to breed a tolerable supply of the imago. 

 Strange that we have not yet discovered the habit of the 

 larva of the much commoner T. sericiellum ! 



*Zdlena Phillyrella, Milliei'e (Iconographie et Descrip- 

 tion de Chenilles et Lepidopteres inedits. Livraison 18, 

 p. 286, pi. 81, f. 6—8). In the spring of 1866 M. Milliere 

 sent me a few insects to name ; amongst them was one which 

 I referred to Zelleria hepariella, and told him that the larva 

 was suspected to feed on yew ; he replied in this I must be 

 mistaken, as the insect in question had been bred from 

 PhiUyrea, a very different plant from yew. 



When I arrived at Cannes last spring M. Milliere pro- 

 mised to show me some of the larvae from the Phillyrea, 

 vrhich produced the insect, I had been disposed to refer 

 without any hesitation to Z. hepariella; the first week in 

 March we ascended one of the lower hills near Cannes, and 

 from a plant of Phillyrea anf/ustifolia, which was most 

 luxuriantly full of blossom, M. Milliere, by the aid of his 

 stick and umbrella, obtained from twenty to thirty of a larva 

 quite new to me, and which he assured me would produce the 

 new species of Zelleria, for which he proposed the name 

 Pliillyrella. This larva I have thus described. 



Length 4 lines. Greenish at the sides and beneath ; the 

 entire dorsal region reddish as far as the sub-dorsal lines ; 

 dorsal line darker ; spots pale green, very small ; head and 

 second segment pale dull yellowish. Attenuated anteriorly, 

 slightly so posteriorly. The young larvae are green, without 

 the reddish tinge. 



1868. L 



