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and Livonia ; it is, therefore, not necessarily an Alpine 

 species, since the latter province is flat and marshy. It 

 feeds on the roots of Tussilago and Petasitis ; hence 

 Herrich-Schiifler has depicted (240) a variety of it under 

 the name Tussilaginajia. 



Although Dr. Wocke places grcmdcEvana in his very ex- 

 tensive and extremely heterogenous genus GrapholUha^ in 

 a sub-genus Cacochroa, Ld., Mr. Barrett considers, with Dr. 

 Heinemann, that its affinities, in spite of its ample wings, 

 more correctly conoect it with Halonota^ especially with 

 turhidana and inopiajia. 



Ephestia Roxburghii, Gregson (Entom. Xo. 113, p. 318.) 

 Not having seen this proposed new species, I can offer no 

 opinion respecting its specific merits. Mr. Gregson, who, 

 as everybody knows, is a 'cute entomologist, observes that 

 several specimens of this Ephestia were bred by Mr. 

 Roxburgh from larvae, which fed on debris of Lepidoptera, 

 that it is larger than E. interpu7ictella, and that it has full 

 rounded cost^ ; and he adds that " its short curved palpi 

 lead him (Mr. G.) to think that he may have a word to say 

 on this point another time." 



I give Mr. Gregson' s description in extenso^ fearing that 

 by condenh^ation much of the pith of it might be lost : — 



" Ephestia Roxburghii, Gregson. — 7 to 9 lines. Form 

 broad, cost* rounded, wings obtuse ; head, face and 

 palpi grey ; first third of fore-wings grey ; then a broad, 

 distinct, slightly-waved silvery line across the wing, pointing 

 inwards, followed by a rich, deep, brownish-grey (darkest 

 outside the light line), extending to the cilia, but cut beyond 

 the second third of the wing by a well-defined light-grey 

 streak, pointing outwards, which streak is edged with suf- 



