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Note. — So far only one example of this species has occurred 

 in Britain. This specimen, which is of the typical form, was 

 found by the Bev. O. Pickard Cambridge, on the 21st September, 

 1884, resting on a door-jamb in his garden at Bloxworth, Dorset- 

 shire. The descriptions of the imago, given above, were taken 

 from specimens captured by Mr. Leech at Mogador. 



PYRALIDES. 



PYKALIDID^. 

 Pyralis lienigialis, Zell. (PI. IV. fig. 13.) 



BRIT. REF. I — 



Pyralis lienigialis, Thompson, Entom. xiv. p. 84 ; Carrington, 

 op. cit., p. 304, pi. i. fig. 21; South, Syn. List, p. 17 ; 

 Leech, Brit. Pyral. p. 13, pi. vii. fig. 1. 



Asojpia lienigialis, Thompson, Barrett, and Stainton, Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. xvii. p. 256. 



Mr. Barrett (I. c.) finds that although some specimens of 

 P. lienigialis may resemble P. farinalis in colour, the first whitish 

 line of the former is " nearer the middle of the wing, the basal 

 blotch being therefore larger and the median area smaller"; 

 the second line commences as a pale blotch on the costa, and is 

 more regularly curved than in farinalis. " In the hind wings the 

 first delicate pale striga, which in farinalis forms a continuation 

 of the first line on the fore wings, is, in lienigialis, placed more 

 perpendicularly, so that it originates opposite the middle of the 

 basal blotch of the fore wings." 



Distribution. — Livonia; Finland; England. 



Note. — Captured at light in August, 1879, by Mr. Thompson, 

 at Stoney Stratford, Bucks, and introduced by him in April, 1881. 

 Other specimens were taken by Messrs. Thompson and Bryan ; 

 August and September, 1880. 



SCOPARIA BASISTRIGALIS. 

 BRIT. REF. I — 



Scoparia basistrigalis, Knaggs, Ent. Mo. Mag. iii. p. 1 (wood- 

 cut) ; v. p. 293, pi. i. fig. 6 ; Briggs, Entom. xviii. p. 130 ; 

 xx. p. 17; xxii. p. 17; Tutt and Briggs, E. M. M. xxvi. 

 p. 51 ; Porritt, op. cit. p. 88 ; Entom. xii. p. 225 ; Doubl. 

 List, Suppl. p. 2 ; South, Syn. List, p. 17 ; Leech, Brit. 

 Pyral. p. 14, pi. xiv. fig. 4. 



Expanse, 9 — 10£ lines. " Fore wings in both sexes broad, of rhomboidal 

 shape . . . ground colour clear greyish white, thickly sprinkled with numerous 

 black atoms. Basal area with two short distinct black streaks passing from 

 the base of the wing along the subcostal and median nervures respectively. . . . 

 First line, commencing obliquely from the costa, passes backwards and in- 

 wards to the orbicular stigma, thence forwards and inwards to meet the 

 claviform stigma, which is incorporated with (not detached from, as in some 

 of the genus) this line, and finally, with an S-hke bend, reaches the inner 



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