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country b}' Mr. Thompson, of Stoney Stratford, who found larvse 

 in a sack of rice-cones. These specimens were supposed to be 

 Myelois ceratonia, and were so recorded ; but some of them were 

 sent to Mr. C. G. Barrett, who at once identified them as 

 kuhniella. Most of the European writers have insisted on this 

 flour-pest being an American importation ; but American ento- 

 mologists deny this, and say that, although the insect may have 

 been known in America previous to the year 1889, it was not 

 until that year that it appeared there in any numbers. Prof. Riley, 

 in ' Insect Life ' (vol. ii., No. 6), gives a most interesting digest of 

 the European literature on the subject, together with an account 

 of all that was known of the species in America at the time of 

 writing. An exhaustive life-history is given by Mr. James 

 Fletcher in the ' Report of the Entom. Soc. of Ontario, 1889.' 



EUZOPHERA OBLITELLA, Zell. (PL III. fig. 2.) 

 BEIT. REF. : 



Euzophera oblitella, Blackburn, Entom. xii. p. 16; Blackburn 

 and Stainton, Ent. Mo. Mag. xv. p. 187 ; Ragonot, E. M M. 

 xxii. p. 31 ; Warren, E. M. M. xxiii. p. 233 ; South, Syn. 

 List, p. 40. 



" Front wings greyish, dusted with darker, both lines black, 

 the first preceded, the second followed, by a pale band ; nearly 

 midway between the two is a conspicuous black spot. Hind wings 

 pearly grey, gradually darkening to the hind margin." — (Blackburn.) 



The above description does not quite agree with the continental 

 example of E. oblitella, now figured. 



Introduced by Mr. Blackburn, January, 1879. 



British Locality. — Isle of Wight (S. W. coast). 



Distribution. — S. W. Germany ; Hungary ^SsL— Russia ; 

 S.France; Andalusia; Sicily; Asia; N.America. 



Note. — The first recorded capture of this species in Britain 

 is that of Mr. Blackburn, who took a specimen in the autumn of 

 1876, on the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight. Mr. Warren, 

 writing in 1887, says that he obtained an example of E. oblitella, 

 between Yarmouth and Freshwater, " some thirteen or fourteen 

 years since," i. e., in 1873 or 1874. M. Ragonot observes that 

 this species has been described by Walker as Nephopteryx 

 propriella, and by Clemens as A T . undulatella. He adds that 

 E. oblitella is a very variable insect, and that the larva appears 

 to be unknown. 



Ephestia roxburghii. 



BRIT. KEF. : — 



Ephestia roxburghii, Gregson, Entom. vi. p. 318 ; Ragonot, 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. xxii. p. 25. 



Expanse, 7—9 lines. " Fore wings broad, costa rounded, 

 colour pale brownish grey, median space entirely suffused with 

 blackish brown, in which the discal spots are hardly perceptible. 



