NOTES ON BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 149 



Although Mr. Stainton has modestly included this under 

 the category of imported species, it appears to me that the 

 interesting novelty has as much claim to be admitted to our 

 lists as Ephestia Jicella, Ploclia interpunctella, and many 

 others which could be readily enumerated. It is rather 

 singular that the larva of this species does not appear, like 

 its congeners, to feed on honey, as the name of the genus 

 into which Mr. Stainton has provisionally placed it {Melis- 

 soblaptes = Stephens' Mella) would seem to indicate. 



