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for similar substances. In the latter case the captures have 

 been made mostl}^ in the eastern portions of London, in the 

 former near Dover, Kent; and, as I am informed, at Here- 

 ford and Rugby. 



In habits it is almost identical with the species of EpheAtia, 

 to which it also bears a striking resemblance. There is 

 little doubt that it is one of the species which have been at 

 some period inadvertent]}^ imported with dried fruits. 



Abroad it is distributed over large portions of Central and 

 Southern Europe, Afi-ica, and Northern Armenia, and is also 

 taken in Syria. 



Genus 1:3. NYCTEGRETES. 



Antennaj rather thickened throughout, simple, bent back ; 

 palpi slender and curved up, but extended beyond the face ; 

 head roughened at the top; fore wings very narrow, but the 

 cell not particularly so, blunt behind ; hind wings ample, 

 vein 5 absent ; on the underside of the median nervnre is a 

 tcft of long hairs. 



We have only one species. 



1. N. achatinella, Hi'il. — Expanse |- to \ inch (15- 

 19 mm.j. Slender. Fore wings narrow, shining, light red- 

 brown or pinkish-brown ; the two lines white or paler than 

 the ground colour, very oblique in opposite directions. Hind 

 wings shining pale smoky-brown or smoky-white. 



Antennae of the male rather thickened, simple, bent near 

 the base, red-brown ; palpi long, narrow, flattened at the 

 sides, curved strongly up, but set forward from the face, 

 whitish-brown ; head and thorax reddish-white ; abdomen 

 shining wiiitish-brown. Fore wings quite narrow ; costa 

 gently arched ; apex rounded ; hind margin rather squared, 

 faintly curved, but hardly oblique ; glossy, light red-brown, 

 pale pinkish-brown, or purpiish-red ; first line very oblique, 

 nearly straight, white or reddish-white ; second line far 



