1871.) : 147 
vol. ITT, p. 87 (1855), secondly in the ‘Annales de la Société Entomo- 
logique de France,’ 1855, p. 211, and ‘thie in the ‘ Tineina of Scuthern 
Europe,’ p. 809 (1869). 
_ Iwas from home when these larve reached this country, but my 
friend, Mr. J. W. Douglas, kindly attended to them in my absence, and 
has made the following description : 
“ Larva \% lines long. Head deeply inserted in the second seg- 
“ment, which is the widest of all, both brown ; then the body is gradually 
“and slightly smaller to the apex; the segments pale amber-yellow. 
“ Mine long, always starting from a rib, much contorted, often at 
“first in long reaches, ending always in a large blotch; “ frass ” con- 
“tinuous, black. 
| “ Cocoon oval, formed between the cuticles, which are eaten through 
all round the circumference at one end, but maintained zn sitd by a 
“silken net work.of filaments.” 
The mine differs essentially from those of the dogwood feeders, 
Antispila Pfeifferella and Treitschkiella, in commencing with a slender, 
linear, Nepticuliform gallery: neither is the ultimate blotch as large as 
in the dogwood species; this probably is in a great measure owing 
to the vine leaf being so much thicker than a dogwood leaf, and con- 
sequently more sustenance is afforded in a smaller sized excavated 
blotch ; but the most singular thing is the small size of the oval cases 
or cocoons cut ort by the larve ; these are considerably smaller than 
those of the smallest dogwood species, Antispila Treitschkiella, and 
much smaller than those figured in 1750 (reproduced in my volume of 
the ‘Tineina of Southern Europe’). The cases of the vine feeder all 
bear longitudinal ridges, which we do not perceive in the cases of the 
dogwood feeders. 
These October larve of Antispila Rivillei will probably not 
produce the imago till May or June; and there will be some anxiety, 
lest, as is so often the case with similar larve, they may all perish 
during the winter months. 
By a singular coincidence, at the very time I was pondering over 
the extraordinary re-discovery of this larva, I received from Lord 
Walsingham some aspen leaves from Fort Klamath, Oregon, so mal- 
treated by the larve of some unknown species of Antispila (or Aspidisca) 
that their appearance is most singular. It would really seem as if the 
problem had been :—* Given an aspen leaf, to find the greatest number 
of oval cases that can be punched out of it.’’ 
Mountsfield, Lewisham: November 14th, 1871 
