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place. As I had already, some years previously, found them at the same 

 place, I had concluded that the larva must feed on Thymus serpyllwm, 

 but this very day this conjecture was to be annulled. 



One JEchmia equitella, and one JSlachista Bedellella also turned up 

 in this place. On the slopes of the enclosure wall I collected a few 

 larvae of Acidalia decorata on Thymus serpyllum (which I succeeded in 

 raising to the perfect state). On the wall there sat on a dry plant a 

 creature which looked to me like a small wasp ; as I wished to examine 

 it more closely it flew off, but on account of the dull close weather, it 

 flew badly and I easily caught it ; it was a very beautiful $ Sesia empi- 

 formis (tenthrediniformis, Ochs.), which had evidently not long emerged 

 from the Euphorbia cyparissias, which grows here rather freely. On 

 Silene otites and chlorantha I found the cases of Goleophora otitce 

 of different sizes tolerably common (yet none were coloured like the 

 figure in Stainton's Nat. Hist. Tineina IV. PI. 2, f. 3,* but all like 

 Herrich-Schaffer's figure 911), exclusively under the lowermost leaves of 

 the plants, lying in the sand, many indeed a foot removed from the 

 Silene, so that they appeared in their wanderings to have attacked 

 other plants. The pale blotches with their round holes, on the lower- 

 most leaves betrayed the plants on which I had to seek for them. It is 

 probably only in captivity and when pinched for food that they climb 

 higher up the plant. I found one case of Goleophora vibicigerella on a 

 stem of Artemisia campestris. Here also flew two specimens of Ptero- 

 phorus serotinus, thus at a time in striking contradiction to its name. 



Thence I went over the height ; without pausing there I saw 

 Phoxopterya unguicella abundantly on Calluna, and a few Gidaria 

 ocellata and biriviata, Borkh. (alchemillata, Tr.) Prom the twigs of the 

 firs males of Bupalus piniarius were easily induced to fly. 



Then I went to the right of the road towards the drainage canal, 

 where I knew of a spot frequented by Lyccena Medon. There were 

 certainly a few specimens of this butterfly, but on account of the 

 cloudy sky they did not fly readily, but sat on the dry last year's stemB 

 of Artemisia, so that I failed in my object in respect to the ovi- 

 positing. 



Of Hylas in this locality, I saw to-day no single specimen. One 

 male of Medon was distinguished by its small size and by its underside. 

 The transverse row of ocellated spots is placed so near the red fascia 

 that on the anterior wings the innermost, and on the posterior wings, 



* Only when I have had to feed the larvae for a long while, before they were full fed, and gave 

 them no sand, their cases obtain from the pieces of plant attached a rather greenish appearance; at 

 large they are never like this.— P. C. Z. 



