102 LEPIDOPTERA. 



notes should be perused by every Entomologist who is de- 

 sirous of making himself acquainted with their differences. 



One of the chief points of distinction between the imagos 

 (which I give in Mr. Hellins' own Mords) " is to be found 

 in the outermost line of the broad central band ; in both 

 species this commences on the costa at about two-thirds of 

 the distance between the base and the tip, and runs across 

 the wing for a little way with very small teeth, then shoots 

 out into a large bilobed (sometimes in C. russata trilobed) 

 tooth, which is followed by another not quite half as big, and 

 lastly slants away to the inner margin with three more teeth 

 not differing much in size ; but the distinction is this, that in 

 C. immanata these teeth, especially the largest of them, are 

 more prominent and acute (Ha worth's * fascia valde producta 

 et utraque argute irregulai'iter dentata') : in C. russata they 

 are not so prominent, and are often rounded (fascia externe 

 minus producta)." 



At page 1G5 of the Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. i., Mr. Hellins 

 discusses this question still more fully, and with great care 

 contrasts the earlier stages of these insects. 



Mr. Bond having now a fine series of an Ephestia from 

 cork, I have been enabled, through Mr. Stainton, to add 

 the following remarks upon it : — 



Ephestia Ficella, Douglas. 

 E. Ficella, Douglas, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1851, p. 114 

 E. Ficella, Stainton, Manual, ii. p. 169. 

 '* The sight of a fine series of specimens recently bred 

 from cork, enables me," writes Mr. Stainton, " to add con- 

 siderably to the very brief description given of this insect in 

 the * Manual.' 



