$154 THE ZooLocist—JuLy, 1872. 
de Physique, présentés a l’Academie Royale des Sciences’ in 1750. A 
translation of this notice by Goeze appeared in 1755 in the fourth volume 
of the ‘ Naturforscher,’ and Fuessly, who reproduced many of Goeze’s notes 
on Lepidoptera in the second volume of his Magazine, in 1779, also repeated 
the notice of this insect. 
“A period of seventy-five years then elapsed before any further printed 
notice appears having reference to this species, and it will be necessary 
therefore to point out the successive steps which have contributed to its 
rediscovery. 
“In 1853, at the September meeting of this Society, Mr. Douglas 
exhibited some curious Lepidopterous larvee mining in the leaves of dog- 
wood ; they were entirely apodal, and when full fed cut out oval cases from 
the mined blotches, and descended to the ground. 
“Tn 1854, at the June meeting of this Society, Mr. Thomas Boyd 
exhibited the moth bred from the dogwood larve : it was Elachista Treitsch- 
kiella, a species first made known to us on the last plate of Fischer von 
Réslerstamm’s beautiful work published in 1842. 
“Tn October, 1854, I brought before this Society a short paper, in which 
I called attention to the perfect identity of habit of the vine-leaf miner 
recorded in 1750 and the dogwood miner lately bred, and, with the view of 
giving an impetus to the rediscovery of the vine-leaf miner, I proposed for 
it a name, Elachista Rivillei. At that time we had begun to consider these 
insects as abnormal Elachiste ; but it was Herrich-Schaffer who erected a 
separate genus for their reception—Antispila. 
“In 1855, when visiting Paris for the first time, I brought the subject 
before the French Entomological Society, and gave a figure in the ‘ Annales’ 
of the dogwood miner, thinking, as vines were grown so extensively in 
France, the attention of some French entomologist would thereby be drawn 
to the insect, and its rediscovery effected. In this, however, I was dis- 
appointed, and when Staudinger and Wocke’s Catalogue first ‘appeared, in 
1861, the existence of my Antispila Rivillei was utterly ignored. There is 
nothing like a flat contradiction for stimulating a man to try and prove his 
point, and I must say I felt more determined than ever the insect should be 
found. Curiously enough, a ray of light came to us from across the 
Atlantic; for the late Dr. Clemens published, in 1860, in the Proceedings 
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, notices of two species 
of the genus Antispila, of which he had found the larve in the leaves of 
vines. 
“In 1869, in my volume on the Tineina of Southern Europe, I devoted 
an entire chapter to the history of this insect, and reproduced the original 
plate which had been published in 1750. 
“Tn October, 1871, I received some of the larvee of this insect from 
Massa di Carrara: these were sent me by Lady Walsingham, having 
