4080 Entomological Botany. 



" M. Jacquelin Du Val has shortly described and figured in his ' Genera des 

 Coleopteres d'Europe,' page 13, plate 10, fig. 21 bis et 21 bis A, under the name of 

 Barypeithes rufipes, an insect which is nothing but the Omias sulcifrons, Sch., t. vii. 

 pars 1, page 143, a species, as far as I am informed, only found, until the present time, 

 in England, but now also pertaining to French-Britain's Fauna, the specimens in the 

 collection of M. Chevrolat having been caught in the neighbourhood of Brest ; no un- 

 usual fact, for I have received from M. de Leseliuc, who resides in the Department du 

 Finestere, several species, which had been recorded as British only before his investiga- 

 tions. The national name of British is then not the only point of resemblance between 

 the two countries. 



" The value of M. Jacquelin Du Val's generic characters, as well as the place he 

 gives to this insect (which, in my opinion, should be connected with Omias), I propose 

 to discuss in my next note. I venture to say at present, that both the description and 

 the figure do not permit one to recognise the insect, and I have to add that Boheman's 

 description in Schonherr (loc. cit.) is perfect." 



Entomological Botany (with more especial reference to the Plants 

 frequented by the Tineina). By H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



(Continued from page 4457). 



Vilis vinifera. The Vine. 



A sufficiency of this plant is grown in England, more especially in 

 the South, where it ornaments the front of many a cottage, to render 

 it worthy of notice independently of its claim to our special attention 

 as the only food-plant of Chaerocampa Celerio ; whilst the allied spe- 

 cies, Deilephila Livornica, Chaerocampa porcellus and C. elpenor, are 

 also partial to this plant. Speyer gives Agrotis aquilina as a vine- 

 feeder ; but I think if Guenee were consulted on this point he would 

 dissent ; the habit of the larvae of the genus Agrotis, according to his 

 observations, being to conceal themselves among roots during the day, 

 only protruding the anterior segments of the body sufficiently to reach 

 the lowermost leaves of the surrounding herbage (Guenee, i Histoire 

 Naturelle des Noctuelites,' vol. i. p. 254). Speyer also mentions Lo- 

 besia reliquana as feeding on the vine. But there are two Micro- 

 Lepidopterous larvae which are great enemies to the vine-growers of 

 the South of Europe, OEnectra Pilleriana, on which several essays 

 have been written in France, to show the best modes of preventing the 

 ravages of Le Pyrale de la Vigne, and Eupaecilia ambiguella (rose- 

 rana, Frolich), which latter feeds on the young flower-buds, thereby 



