428 PYRALIDINA [PYRALIS 



reddish-brown ; plate of 2 yellowish-brown : in silken galleries 

 amongst flour and corn-refuse ; 9-5 (said to live two years). 



4. P. lienigialis, Z. 20-24 mm. Differs from P. farinalis as 

 follows : lines of forewings more slender, forming well-marked 

 triangular costal spots, first hardly curved, second with central 

 curve wider, hindwings darker grey, not whitish-mixed, lines 

 much more slender and indistinct. 



Bucks (Stoney Stratford), local, perhaps sometimes over- 

 looked ; Finland, NW. Russia ; 8, 9. 



(P. pictalis, Curt., an Indo-Malayan species somewhat re- 

 sembling P. farinalis, but smaller, with basal area conspicuously 

 blackish -grey, first line straight, second little curved, is said 

 to have been taken once in London, but the specimen was 

 doubtless an accidental importation. 



3. AGLOSSA, Latr. 



Ocelli sometimes concealed. Tongue obsolete. Antennae 

 in c finely bipectinated. Labial palpi porrected or subascend- 

 ing, second joint with dense projecting scales beneath, terminal 

 exposed. Maxillary palpi with apex loosely scaled. Fore- 

 wings : 4 and 5 connate or stalked. Hindwings : 4 and 5 

 stalked, 7 shortly approximated to 8. 



A genus of very few species, now so widely spread by 

 human agency that their origin is uncertain. 



Hindwings grey . . . 1. pinguinalis. 



,, fuscous-whitish . . 2. cuprealis. 



1. A. pinguinalis, L. 28-36 mm. Forewings greyish- 

 ochreous or brownish, densely sprinkled with dark fuscous ; a 

 blackish subbasal line ; first and second lines obscurely paler, 

 rather broad, waved, cloudily edged with dark fuscous on both 

 sides, second curved outwards in disc; a dark fuscous discal 

 spot. Hindwings fuscous-grey; a paler postmedian line very 

 obscurely indicated. 



Britain to Perth, Ireland, common in stables ; Europe, N. 

 and C. Asia, N. Africa, Australia (doubtless introduced) ; 6, 7. 

 Larva blackish or dark brown ; head blackish : in silken 

 galleries amongst chaff and hay-refuse ; 8-5. 



2. A cuprealis, Hb. 21- 25 mm. Forewings rather dark 

 fuscous, irregularly mixed with whitish -ochreous, reddish- 

 tinged throughout; lines whitish - ochreous, reddish -tinged, 

 serrate, first oblique, second strongly curved outwards in disc. 

 Hindwings fuscous-whitish ; terminal line and one in cilia dark 

 fuscous. 



