374 PYRALIDINA [ephestia 



costal fold small, loosely scaled ; fuscous, irrorated with fuscous 

 whitish and dark fuscous ; lines pale, first posteriorly dark- 

 edged, angulated near costa, twice indented beneath, second 

 dark-edged, strongly indented near costa ; two dai*k fuscous 

 transversely placed discal dots. Hindwings fuscous-whitish, 

 termen fuscous, in c^ with subdorsal whitish-ochreous basal 

 hair-tuft. 



Britain to the Clyde, local ; France, Spain ; 7-10. Lai'va 

 pinkish-whitish ; dorsal line darker ; spots brown ; head and 

 plate of 2 dark brown : on cork, dried figs, currants, etc. ; 9-5. 



5. E. kuehniella, Z. 20-23 mm. Forewings fuscous, irror- 

 ated with whitish and sprinkled with dark fuscous ; lines hardly 

 palei', first posteriorly dark -edged, nearly straight, rather 

 oblique, serrate-indented above middle and near dorsum, second 

 strongly indented near costa, dark-edged, with darker dots on 

 veins ; two blackish transversely placed discal dots. Hindwings 

 whitish, veins and termen fuscous, in $ without whitish- 

 ochreous hair-tufts. 



Britain to Aberdeen, local; C. Europe, N. America; 7-10. 

 Larva on flour ; 8-5. 



13. Heterographis, Rag. 



Face smooth. Antennae in $ shortly ciliated. Labial 

 palpi moderate, curved, ascending, with tolerably appressed 

 scales, terminal joint rather short, tolerably pointed. Maxillary 

 palpi rather short, filiform. Forewings : 4 and 5 long-stalked. 

 Hindwings : cell not reaching \, 3 and 4 long-stalked, 5 absent, 

 7 closely approximated to 8 to middle. 



A group of moderate extent and rather general distribution. 

 Imago with forewings veiy naiTOW, costa hardly arched. 



1. H. oblitella, Z. 17-19 mm. Forewings light greyish- 

 ochreous, more or less mixed irregularly with dark fuscous 

 and whitish ; lines paler, first posteriorly dai'k-edged, preceded 

 on dorsum by a suffused dark in ^ more ochreous or reddish- 

 tinged spot, second interruptedly dark-edged ; two dark fuscous 

 transversely placed discal dots. Hindwings whitish-fuscous, 

 tlarker terminally. 



I. of Wight, probably a scarce immigrant only ; SC. and S. 

 Europe, WC. Asia to Turkestan, N. America ; 6-8. 



14. EUZOPHERA, Z. 



Face smooth. Antennae in $ shortly ciliated. Labial 

 palpi moderate, curved, ascending, with appressed scales, ter- 



