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comes rather larger towards the middle, and has a slightly woolly 

 appearance. It is dirty whitish, with narrow furrows along its surface 

 showing a slightly darker colour. The mouth of the case is turned 

 over almost at right angles to the case itself, so that if feeding on a 

 flat surface the hinder extremity, which is somewhat triangular, would 

 be but slightly raised. 



The larva feeds during the months of May and June on Santolina 

 chmncBcyparissus, on the white leaves of which the case is very incon- 

 spicuous. I collected a fair number of these cases by beating the 

 plants at the end of May in the Tavignano Valley at Corte, as well 

 as along the road to the north of the town, but as they were evidently 

 not full-fed I had almost given up the hope of breeding them when 

 two specimens appeared in the latter half of September. 



COLEOPHOEA HEEMANNIELLA, Sp. n. 



Antenna white, distinctly annulated with blackish, basal joint with a short 

 spreading mouse-grey tuft. Palpi (apical joint about half the length of the second) 

 white on their inner sides, mouse-grey externally. Head mouse-grey, whitish at the 

 sides and on the face. Thorax mouse-grey with some whitish scales. Fore-wings 

 narrow ; dark mouse-grey, a slender whitish line along the costa throughout, blending 

 with the pale mouse-grey costal cilia ; a broken line of whitish scales is visible on 

 the fold, and another line from the outer portion of the cell to the apex, a few 

 similar scales occur also on the base of the dorsum (these lines would not be noticed 

 in a worn specimen, as the scales are very thinly distributed and probably fugitive) ; 

 cilia brownish-cinereous. Exp. al., 13 mm. Hind-wings grey ; cilia brownish- 

 cinereous. Abdomen and legs mouse-grey. 

 Type, ^, Mus. Wlsm. 



Sab. : CoESiCA, Yizzavona. Larva, Anthyllis hermannii, 6, Y, 

 excl. 4, YI, 1896. 



A single specimen of this species, which appears to be allied to 

 gnaphalii, Z., and to odorariella, Euchs, was bred from Anthyllis her- 

 mannii collected at Yizzavona on May 6th, for larvae of a species of 

 Scythris, Hb. (= ^Bufalis, Tr.) ; the specimen appeared on June 4th 

 in the glass cylinder where the Anthyllis was placed, no other plant 

 being present in the cylinder. Although a very careful search was 

 made, I was unable to find the larval case among the debris, but no 

 reasonable doubt can exist that Anthyllis was the plant on which the 

 larva fed, 



CoLEOPHOEA COESICELLA, sp. n. 



Antennce white, delicately annulated with blackish. Palpi slender, porrect, 

 apical joint somewliat unusually short ; whitish on their inner sides, brownish ex- 



