146 [December, 
In order to render this notice of the genus more complete, | may 
mention that Hagen, in Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1858, p. 121, indicates two 
species (without name or description) from Archangel and the Kirgise 
Steppe respectively, as probably distinct from conspersa ; and I possess 
one female, in very bad condition, from North America (possibly scarcely 
pertaining to the genus), in which fork one of the anterior wings extends 
to the discoidal cell, and with the third and fourth joints of the maxillary 
palpi much shorter. 
Lewisham: August, 1871. 
REMARKS ON THE RE-DISCOVERY OF THE LARVA OF ANTISPILA 
RIVILLEI. 
BY H. T. STAINTON, F.R.S. 
This most interesting fact, the re-discovery of an insect, which, 
though described with great minuteness in 1750, has always subse- 
quently escaped detection, stands I believe perfectly unique in the — 
history of our science. Four generations had passed away, but still the 
magician whose wand was to wake the Sleeping Beauty from her 
prolonged slumbers had not appeared. 
The insect had only been observed at Malta, and in the heat of the 
summer season ; but it was reasonable to expect that it might occur in 
other parts of Italy, and in the South of France ;—and possible that it 
might occur at a more temperate season. 
The larve of <Antispila Rivillei were found the first week in 
October, 1871, by the Hon. Beatrice de Grey (sister of Lord Walsingham, 
who is now collecting the Micro-Lepidoptera of California and Oregon) 
in a vineyard at Massa di Carrara, in Italy; and, recognising at once 
the insect from its peculiar characters, some specimens were thought- 
fully forwarded to me for identification. 
Unless there are two species of the genus Antispila on the vine 
(as we have two in England on the dogwood, Cornus sanguinea), there 
seems no reason to doubt but that these are the larve of the long lost 
insect, first noticed in the ‘ Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physique 
présentés 4 Académie Royale des Sciences,’ vol. I, p, 177 (1750), 
and this notice subsequently reproduced by Goeze, in the ‘ Natur- 
forscher,’ Stiick 4, p. 16 (1774), by Fuessly in the ‘Magazin der 
Entomologie,’ Band II, p. 167 (1779), and then by myself first in the 
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