﻿BRITISH DELTOIDS, PYRALTDES, AND CRAMBI. 30l 



PHYCIDyE. 

 Myelois pryerella. (PL III. fig. 9.) 



BEIT. REF. :— 



Trachonetis (?) pryerella, Vaughan, Ent. Mo. Mag. vii. p. 130 ; 



Knaggs, Ent. Ann. 1871, p. 90, pi. i. fig. 3 ; Doubl. List, 



Suppl. p. 2 ; South, Syn. List, p. 20 ; Leech, Brit. Pyral. 



p. 89, pi. x. fig. 7; Griffith, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1889 (March). 



Myelois ceratonice var. pryerella, Eagonot, E. M. M. xii. p. 30. 



Fore wings pale greyish white, shaded towards the base with dark grey. 



First line, which is undulating and oblique, passing from the inner third of 



the costa to the middle of the inner margin, shaded with dark grey ; this 



shading continues in less degree to the second line. The stigmata indicated 



by darker grey markings. Second line denticulate, nearly parallel with hind 



margin ; subterminal line very wavy and faintly visible on the paler ground 



colour. Hind margin dotted with dark grey. Cilia pale grey. Hind wings 



silky white, narrowly bordered with fuscous. Expanse 10 to 11^ lines. 



The above is an abridgement of Mr. Vaughan's description. 



Introduced by Mr. Howard Vaughan, November, 1870. 



British Locality. — London. 



Note. — The late Mr. Eedle took a specimen of this insect in 

 his garden near Hackney in September, 1864, and another in 

 October of the same year, but these remained unidentified until 

 1870, when the late Mr. Henry Pryer captured an example in 

 Tooley Street, August 27th, and Mr. Vaughan one on the 10th of 

 September. M. Bagonot, after having examined " one of the 

 original types," is of opinion that pryerella is only a bleached 

 form of ceratonice. Mr. A. F. Griffith has very kindly lent me 

 his specimens, which I have carefully examined and compared with 

 ceratonice, and I must say that I quite concur in the opinion 

 expressed by M. Bagonot. Of M. ceratonice but little was known 

 until Mr. A. B. Farn met with it in a London warehouse between 

 the years 1884 and 1887 (vide Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii. p. 281). Fig. 9 

 (PI. III.) represents one of Mr. Griffith's specimens. 



Myelois cirrigerella, Zinck. 

 brit. kef. : — 

 Myelois cirrigerella, Meyrick, Ent. Mo. Mag. xi. p. 237 ; 

 Blandford, List of Marlborough Lep. p. 19 ; South, Syn. 

 List, p. 20 ; Bagonot, E. M. M. xxii. p. 30. 

 " Expanse 9 lines. Palpi moderate, porrected. Head and 

 thorax bright yellow. Fore wings glossy, rather pale brownish 

 ochreous, yellower towards base, immaculate. Hind wings grey. 

 Cannot be confounded with any other British species. When 

 alive it has a very smooth and glossy appearance, and the yellow 

 thorax is couspicuous " (Meyrick). 



Introduced by Mr. E. Meyrick, March, 1875. 

 Distribution. — Germany ; Gallicia ; Livonia ; Dalmatia ; 

 England. 



Note. — On the 30th of June, 1874, eight or nine specimens of 



