﻿THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XXIIL] NOVEMBER, 1890. [No. 330. 



ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH LIST OF DELTOIDS, 



PYRALIDES, AND CRAMBI, SINCE 1859. 



By Richard South. 



(Plates III. & IV.) 



(Concluded from p. 305.) 



EPHESTIA KtiHNIELLA, Zell. (PI. IV. fig. 2.) 



BRIT. REF. : — 



Myelois ceratonice, Thompson, Entoin. xx. p. 66. 



Ephestia kiihniella, Barrett, Ent. Mo. Mag. xxiii. p. 255 ; 

 Thompson, I. c. p. 139 ; Tutt, Entom. xx. p. 212; Klein, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. Hi; Adkin, Proc. S. Lond. Ent. 

 and Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 20, pi. i. fig. 15 ; Cockerell, 

 op. cit. p. 58; Ormerod, Rep. Injur. Ins. 1889. 



Size of ficella, pale grey, much dusted with dark slate-grey. The first 

 line blackish, indented, and, above the inner margin, deeply angulated, as in 

 Myelois ceratonice. Second line deeply angulated near the costa, and indented 

 below. Between these two lines is a black streak along the apex of the dis- 

 coidal cell ; but this is not always distinct. In well-marked specimens there 

 is an oblique, dark, central shade, from costa near apex to inner margin. 

 There are some black dots along outer margin, and the fringes are grey. Hind 

 wings shining white, with the venation and outer margin brown. 



The foregoing description is abridged from that given by 

 Mr. Barrett. 



Larva whitish or sometimes pinkish, slightly hairy; head 

 reddish brown ; plates on second and anal segments yellow. 

 Feeding in webs or silken tunnels, on flour and rice-cones. 



Introduced by Mr. C. G. Barrett, April, 1887. 



Note. — This species appears to have been unknown to ento- 

 mologists until 1877, when Prof. Zeller received some larvae and 

 specimens of the perfect insect from Dr. Kiihn, of Halle. Ten 

 years afterwards, that is in 1887, jE. kiihniella was bred in this 



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