﻿THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XXIII.] OCTOBER, 1890. [No. 329. 



ADDITIONS TO THE BEITISH LIST OF DELTOIDS, 



PYRALIDES, AND CRAMBI, SINCE 1859. 



By Richard South. 



(Plates III. & IV.) 



Continued from p. 278. 



CRAMBI. 

 CEAMBIDiE. 



Crambus alpinellus, Hilbn. (PI. IV. fig. 4.) 

 British references: — 

 Crambus alpinellus, Knaggs, Ent. Mo. Mag. viii. p. 110 ; Ent. 

 Ann. 1872, p. 118, pi. i. fig. 4 ; B. White, Scott. Nat. i. 

 p. 135; Weston, Entom. x. p. 117; Tugwell, Entom. xiv. 

 p. 214 ; Atmore, op. cit. xviii. p. 172 ; Ragonot, E. M. M. 

 xvii. p. 15 ; Doubl. List, Suppl. p. 2 ; South, Syn. List, 

 p. 19 ; Leech, Brit. Pyral. p. 73, pi. viii, fig. 2. 

 " Phoxopterygiform ; of an ashy brown colour, with a white, 

 longitudinal, middle streak. This streak sends out a branch 

 towards the inner margin before the middle of the wing ; beyond 

 the middle it is intersected by an obliquely-placed mark of the 

 ground colour; towards the apical margin there is a strongly 

 angulated zigzag line " (Knaggs). 



Introduced by Dr. Knaggs, October, 1871. 

 British Localities. — Southsea ; Deal ; Norfolk Coast. 

 Distribution. — South-western France ; Germany; Hungary ; 

 Livonia ; Switzerland. 



Note. — Zeller says that this species occurs in sandy grassy 

 places in the pine-forests of Germany and Hungary. Ragonot 

 mentions dry sandy pasture-lands, where broom, heath, and 

 Artemisia camyestris grow. In a recent communication Mr. 

 Pcarce, of Gosport, says he has been informed by Mr. H. 

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