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by Latrcille, who has given it that of (Ecophora granella.* 

 Moreover, the writers of the " Introduction " have extracted, 

 from the works of Reaumur,f an account of the habits of this 

 insect, which they call Tinea Hordci and Ypsolophus granellus^X 

 without seeming to be aware that it is the same as the An- 

 goumois moth. In the first edition of this treatise, I stated 

 that "the Angoumois grain-moth probably belongs to the 

 modern genus Anacampsis, a word derived from the Greek, 

 and signifying recurved, in allusion to the direction of the 

 feelers of the moths." To this genus, as understood by most 

 English entomologists, it certainly does belong; but Mr. Curtis 

 is disposed to place it in his genus Laverna, including certain 

 species which he has separated from Anacampsis. The French 

 naturalist Duponchel, who has described and figured it in the 

 fourth volume of the Supplement to his " Histoire Naturelle 

 des Lepidopteres de France," refers this insect to the genus 

 Butalis, which name I have thought proper now to adopt. 



For more than a century, this insect has prevailed in the 

 western parts of France, and has gradually been extending in 

 an easterly and northerly direction. In the year 1736, the 

 French naturalist Reaumur published an interesting account 

 of it, illustrated by rude figures, in the second volume of his 

 instructive " Memoires." He found it to be very injurious to 

 stored barley, at Lu^on, in the province of La Vendee, and 

 ascertained that it desti'oyed wheat also. In the adjacent 

 province of Angoumois, it continued to increase for many 

 years, till at length the attention of government was directed 

 to its fearful depredations. This was in 1760, when the insect 

 was found to swarm in all the wheat-fields and granaries of 

 Angoumois and of the neighboring provinces, and the afflicted 

 inhabitants were thereby deprived not only of their principal 

 staple, wherewith they were wont to pay their annual rents, 

 their taxes, and their tithes, but were threatened with famine 

 and pestilence from the want of wholesome bread. Two 



* Cuvier's " Rcgne Animal," 2d edition. 



t " Memoires," Tome II., p. 486. 



X "Introduction to Entomology," Vol. I., p. 174. 



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