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Ephestia Kiihniella is the size oi ficella, pale grey, much dusted with dark 

 slate-grey. The first line blackish, indented, and, above the dorsal margin, deeply 

 angulated, as in ilyelois ceratonice. Second line deeply angulated near the costa, 

 and indented below. Between these two lines is a black curved streak along the apex 

 of the discoidal cell, but, in many specimens, this is very indistinct. In well-marked 

 specimens there is a black line from the costa, just beyond the second line, and 

 parallel with it for a short distance. This, which is very oblique, points towards the 

 discal streak, and beyond it to a dark cloud on the dorsal margin near the middle, 

 and gives the appearance of a central shade or cloudy fascia from the costa, near the 

 apex, to the dorsal margin near the middle. The hind margin is dotted with black, 

 the cilia are grey. Hind-wings, glossy wliite with brown veins and hind margin. 



This species may readily be separated from our other species of Ephestia by its 

 deeply indented first line, even when the oblique shade is not conspicuous, from 

 Myelois ceratonice by its narrower fore-wings and far more slender thorax and 

 abdomen.— Chas. G. Barrett, King's Lynn, Norfolk : March lUh, 1887. 



Aporia cratcpgi in Devonshire. — I believe there are only two records of 



A. cratcBgi from the county of Devon, of which one rests on a dealer's statement. 

 My friend. Dr. Jordan, once saw in a dealer's collection at Exeter specimens of this 

 insect, and asking where they were taken, was told that they came from Moreton 

 Hampstead. The other record comes from Canon Tristram. Knowing that he had 

 taken cratcegi at Torquay, I wrote, asking him for details. This reply is so 

 interesting and important that, with his permission, I here give it verbatim. 



" I was at Torquay in ill health in the spring and summer of 1854. In the late 

 spring or early summer I came across numbers of this butterfly in one field, a 

 grassy slope, with steepish banks adjoining a wood. I think it was what they called 

 the Castle Hill, but I have never been there since, and my memory is not clear as to 

 this. I never saw the insect except there, I did not come across it anywhere else. 

 It is the only time or place I have ever seen it in England. I do not think it lasted 

 many days, and I should say all I captured were in the same field. I filled a store 

 box I know, and for some years supplied my friends from it. I have still a nice row 

 of them, but I have long ceased to add to my collection, and was quite unaware till 

 I received your letter that there was any special interest attaching to A. cratcegi. 

 Can it have been a sudden outburst not usual at that place, like my getting eleven 

 Vanessa Antiopa on one geranium bed in a friend's garden in Norfolk before breakfast 

 one morning ? I had no entomological acquaintances at Torquay, so I assumed this 

 to be a normal occurrence. I may add I took on the shore there a fine specimen of 



B. pulchella about the same time, and succeeded in hatching and rearing the eggs on 

 Marvel of Peru." 



In Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, vol. iii, p. 247, I find the following 

 notice of this butterfly : — 



" 1826 — Papilio cratcegata, black ribbed butterfly, is rather a local insect. In 

 the previous summer I met a scientific tourist from Suffolk, who informed me that 

 he had visited Hants to procure this insect, which he understood was here plentiful ; 

 we searched for it several days to no purpose, but this year they were more numerous 

 than even the common Cabbage White, abounding in every field ; since then very 

 scarce." 



