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tendency to the falcate and pointed form; the abdomen is 
not tipped with ochreous: these specimens are, therefore, 
Porrinaria of Zeller and Herrich-Scheffer. I cannot say, 
however, that I am willing to change the name, more 
especially as I possess no specimen that agrees with Viridata 
of Zeller: the subject is well worth investigation. On the 
other question, whether our Viridata be really the Viridata of 
Linneus, happily the Linnean specimen described in the 
‘Systema Nature’ still exists, and proves identical with this 
species taken as a whole; but if our insect be “ split” then it 
will be very difficult to decide which moiety shall retain the 
Linnean name.—Edward Newman. 
Description of an Ephestia new to Seene. —Ephestia 
Figulilella expands from $ an inch to fully 3 of an inch. 
Head and thorax silvery gray; abdomen whitish gray; 
superior wing gray, finely irrorate; costa round, first stria 
acute from costa outwards to discal space, then nearly 
straight or slightly inward, forms a rather broken line across 
the first-third of the wing; second striga placed beyond the 
third of the wing, acute from costa towards the discal space, 
afterwards wavy inwards across the wing (this marking is 
often ill-defined), then a well-defined row of about seven 
dark squarish spots; cilia silvery gray, having three dark fine 
lines through it; the outer one, broadest in the disk of the 
wing, is often a well-defined cuneiform streak, the point 
towards the angle of the first striga, and the fold of the wing 
is ochrey yellow along its whole length; inferior wings 
silvery, somewhat hyaline, the nerves showing plainly; cilia 
silvery white. This fine and distinct species has now been 
plentiful upon warehouse walls, in Liverpool, for several 
years; and | have bred it, upon figs and raisins, from eggs 
laid by copulated females. The second brood have produced 
small specimens, no larger than E. elutella; from it or its 
variety, semirufa of Haworth. From E. ficella- of Douglas, 
its round costa separates it at a glance.—C. S. Gregson. 
On Turnip Insects during 1870. By Jamus Harpy, Esq. 
During the summer of 1870 the turnip beetle, or “ fly” 
(Haltica Nemorum), has been a complete scourge throughout 
