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somewhat depressed, broadest anteriorly, the segments constricted and slightly hairy, 

 ochreous with bright brown spots on the back, caused by the intestines shining 

 through : the head was small, black and shining, with two black spots on the thoracic 

 segment; the six pectoral feet were very minute, as well as the anal ones: the excre- 

 ment towards the tail shone through of a green colour, and there was a spot at the tip. 

 These, I suspect, are the caterpillars of a Tinea (Aphelosetia P Inulella)* two of which 

 I bred from the flowers of the Inula on the 28th of August, aud in all probability the 

 larvae feed on the seeds. 



" On the 9th of September I bred also a female of Microgaster lacteipennis, 

 Curt. ; and on the 10th Pteromalus cupreus, a male, and an ichneumon allied to 

 Trachyderma or Bassus. 



" Carduus lanceolatus. Spear-thistle. 



" On the 1 1th of August I found maggots in the receptacles, feeding on the seeds. 

 They were fat, barrel-shaped, but attenuated before, shining ochreous-white ; head 

 furnished with two short black hooks, the tail with a circular ferruginous space, the 

 lower margin pitchy, with two minute spiracles in the centre of the stern. The pupae, 

 which w T ere imbedded in the woolly receptacles, were similar in form to the larvae, being 

 attenuated to the head and obtuse at the tail, and of an ochreous or rusty colour. 

 From these, on the 4th of October, I bred a female Tephritis palleus, Wied., and af- 

 terwards four males and eight more females. 



" Juncus glomeratus. 



" Dr. Bromfield frequently found, attached to the bundles of seed-vessels, whitish 

 cases iu which the larvae of some species of Coleophora had lived, and from which the 

 moths had hatched about the third week in August, but most of them produced a mi- 

 nute dark green parasite of the family Chalcidida?, which prevented my ascertaining 

 the name of the moth : possibly it is the Porrectaria leucapennis of Haworth, or the 

 Coleophora ceespititiella of Zeller. 



u Artemisia maritima. Sea Wormwood. 



" At the end of September, 1852, 1 bred from this plant two specimens of a minute 

 Cecidomyia ? and a still smaller Entedon. 



" Pistacia Lentiscus. Mastic. 



" During my sojourn at Nice, in Piedmont, in 1850 — 51, I frequently found upon 

 the Pistacia bushes, which grow wild on the rocky hills near Nice and Villafranche, 

 galls attached to the midrib of the leaves, as large as scarlet beau seeds and somewhat 

 of a similar shape : they were very plump, of a pale green colour, more or less rosy 

 from being marbled with red. In the early part of December I opened and examined 

 the contents of these galls, and found them to contain an Eriosoma, very like E. bur- 

 saria, Linn., but larger, and also the pupae of an Agromyza, rather larger than Phy- 

 tomyza lateralis. It was of a cinereous tint, as if dusted with the white powder which 

 enveloped the Eriosoma; the face white; antennae black ; legs ochreous; the thighs 



Vide my description in the Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 2nd Series, v. p. 1 17. 



