2 [Suae, 



Linnaeus, in the " Systeina Naturae," Holmise 1767, torn ii, 501, gives as his 

 classification : 

 Trifolium. 



1st Division. Meliloti leguminibus nudis polyspermis. 



4. (i. e., 4th species) Melilotus officinalis. 

 Sir James Henry Smith also, in " The English Flora," 2nd edition, vol. iii, p. 

 297 (published 1829), has 

 366. Trifolium. Trefoil, clover, and melilot. 

 1. T. officinale. Common melilot. 



T. officinale, Fl. Br., 781 ; Engl. Bot., v. 19, t. 1340 ; Willd., v. 3, 



1355 ; Hook. Scot., 217. 

 T. melilotus-officinalis, Linn., Sp. PI., 1078 ; Huds., 323 ; Mart., Bust., 

 t. 72 ; PI. Dan., t. 934 ; Sincl., ed. 2, 393 ; Bull. 

 Fr., t. 255. 

 T. odoratum, seu Melilotus fruticosa lutea vulgaris vel officinarum, 



Moris., v. 2, 161, sect. 2, t. 16, f. 2. 

 T. odoratum, sive Melilotus, Dod. pempt., 567, f. 

 Melilotus vulgaris, Baii syn., 331. 

 And, again, Curtis himself, in his " British Entomology," figures the melilot on 

 the plate of one of the Hymenoptera, pi. 261, and Bays of it, "The plant is Trifo- 

 lium {Melilotus) officinale (Melilot trefoil)." 



It is quite clear then tbat Melilotus officinalis was formerly con- 

 sidered to be a Trifolium, and though the term " trefoil " is certainly 

 rather vague, it could, half a century ago, be applied with strict 

 accuracy to the meWot. 



As I had been told in several quarters that Mr. F. Bond had 

 taken the true C. Frischella in the Isle of Wight, and possessed cases 

 of the larva, I wrote to him on the subject, and his reply was : " I 

 regret very much that I cannot give you any satisfactory account of 

 C. Frischella ■ I never took the insect myself, but the specimens I have 

 were taken in the Isle of Wight by Peter Bouchard, who was then 

 employed by Mr. E. Shepherd, and were given me by Mr. Shepherd 

 with two cases. I understood at the time that the larvae were found 

 upon clover, or some kind of trefoil. The cases are very different 

 from those of C. melilotella, and are much more like those of C. con- 

 spicuella, but rather longer and more curved. I think my specimens 

 were taken about 25 years ago near Freshwater." 



These cases in Mr. Bond's collection are also referred to in Ent. 

 Ann., 1861, p. 88 (quoted in Ent. Mo. Mag., xxii, 97), as " long, curved, 

 and black, being formed of silk: it resembles most the case' of the 

 larva of O. conspicuella ;" whereas, " the case of the larva of melilotella 

 is made of the seed-husk of the Melilotus officinalis ; at first only a 

 single seed is used, then two are clumsily attached together, ultimately 

 they are so blended as to form a symmetrical cylindrical case." 



