the streets of Liverpool, on the authority of C.S.G. (Gregson), and 

 marks it as a species much wanted in collections (" Ent. 

 Companion," p. 48), and includes it in the Catalogue of the British 

 Microlepidoptera ("List of the Specimens of Brit. Animals in the 

 Coll. of the Brit. Museum," Pt. XVL, Lep.). 



1856. — Gregson described a species, which he says " seems to 

 have bred freely amongst rubbish-sweepings in warehouses at 

 Liverpool," under the name of Tinea uiijrifuldeUa, but which is 

 clearly referable to T. iialh'scentella (" Zool.," p. 5295). 



1857. — Stainton, in some observations on the British Tineina, 

 writes of the species, " This has occurred in some plenty at 

 Liverpool ; the larva is granivorous. 1 give here a more complete 

 description than I was formerly able to give." Then follows a very 

 full and unmistakable description (" Ent. Ann.," 1857, p. 122). 



1859. — Stainton tells us that the larva feeds on grain, that the 

 imago appears in August, and is abundant at Birkenhead and 

 Liverpool, and also occurs at Manchester and York (" Manual," vol. 

 ii., p. 293). 



Doubleday includes T. /Killeacentella in his list, but ignores T. 

 niririfoldella ("Zool. Syn. List.," p. 27). 



1870. — Morris repeats that the larva of T. pcdleHccnteLla feeds on 

 grain, that the imago appears in August, and says that it is "found 

 among grain " ("Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths," Vol. iv., p. 28, PI. XCIX., 

 fig. 11). T. iiif/rifoUdla, he tells us, is found in July, August and 

 September on the walls of grain warehouses in the streets of 

 Liverpool ("Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths," Vol. iv., p. 23, PI. XCIX., 

 lig. 12). He figures both forms, but although neither figure is 

 particularly good, the two taken together appear to show the chief 

 characters of T. pallescentella fairly well. 



1871.- — Wocke mentions T. pallescentella as a species occurring 

 in England, but notes that he has not had the opportunity of 

 personally examining it. He ignores T. nit/iifuldeUa (" Stand, and 

 Wocke Cat.," ed. 1871, p. 270, no. 1408). 



1872. — Eales records finding a dead and desiccated cat beneath 

 some old gas pipes at South Shields, from which he reared a number 

 of specimens of T. pallescentella and T. nisticella. He notes that 

 the larvse devoured the " internal parts of the animal," that the 

 moths appeared during every month from the time he found the 

 cat in July until December, when his notes were written, and that 

 there appeared to be a succession of broods — larvae, pupte and 

 imagines occurring at the same time ("Ent. Mo. Mag.," Vol. viii., 

 p. 209). 



1874. — Stainton again repeats that the larva is granivorous, and 

 says that the moth is common at Liverpool (" Ent. Ann.," 1874, 



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1875. — Merrin records T. palleacentella as occurring from July to 



October in warehouses and poulterers' shops, and the larvae in May 



