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THE LATEST ARRANGEMENT OF BRITISH PYRALID/E. 



The concluding part of Sir George F. Hampson's Classifi- 

 cation of the Pyralidse was published in February last, and we 

 are now able to see what position the British species, referable to 

 the family, are assigned in a system based on the neuration and 

 other structural characters of the imago. 



The six parts into which this Revision has been divided were 

 issued as under : — 



Schxenobiinje and Crambinje^ (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. Dec. 

 1895). 



EpiPASCHiiANiE, ENDOTRicHiNiE, and Pyralin^e (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. Dec. 1896). 



Chrysaugin.e (P.Z.S.L. June, 1897). 



Hydrocampin^ and Scoparian^e (T.E.S. L. July, 1897). 



Pyraustin;e, pt. i. (P.Z.S.L. Nov. 1898). 



PyraustinjE, pt. ii. (P.Z.S.L. Feb. 1899). 



SCHCENOBIIN^. 



There are twenty-five genera in this subfamily, the majority 

 of which contain species belonging to Oriental and Neotropical 

 regions only. The genera represented in Europe are Scir- 

 pohaga, Treits., the type of which is prcelata, Scop, (not British) ; 

 Schoenobius, Dup., gigantellus, Schiff. (type), and forficelliis, 

 Thunb. ; Donacanla, Meyr., founded for the reception of mucro- 

 nella, Schiff. {Schoenobius mucronellus) ; and Acentropus, Curt., 

 in which there are but three species, including niveus, Olivier, 

 the type. 



Crambinje. 



Thirty-one genera are comprised in this subfamily, and of 

 these Crambus, Fabr. (No. 6), appears to be the largest and most 

 extensively distributed. There are over two hundred species 

 included in the genus, and the sequence of the species occurring 

 in Britain is as follows : — 



9. C. paludellus, Hiibn. 



33. C.fascelinellus, Hiibn. 



51. C. inquinateUus, Schiff. 



58. C. geniculeus, Haw. 



59. C. contaminellus, Hiibn. 



60. C. salinellas, Tutt. 



65. C. tristellus, Fabr. 



66. C. selasellus, Hiibn. 



70. C. perlellus, Scop, (ivarringtonellus, Zell., is not men- 

 tioned). 

 74. C. latistfius, Haw. 

 104. C.furcatellus, Zett. 



