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the apical and inner angleSj of a paler colour ; between these strigae is a double circular pale line ; hind wings 

 paler, with a slender dusky margin, and obscurely strigose. A widely-dispersed, but not very common, species. 



' Stkonymes. — Pyralis cuprealis, Hiibner ; Godart and Duponchel ; Curtis; Stephens; Wood, 6g. 776. 



Pyralis cupreoiaiO) Haworth. 



Species 3. — Aglossa Streatfeildii J — (Plate LXXV., Fig. 12) — Measures 14 lines in expanse; wings 

 lurid ochre, pulverose; the fore ones with an angulated brown bar at the base, and a broad apical margin of the 

 same colour ; the veins paler, and a dot on the centre, towards the costa; the margin itself ■with a row of black A 

 dots ; hind wings rather paler at the base. A single specimen taken at Compton Bishop, at the foot of the 

 Mendip Hills, Somerset, is in the cabinet of Mr. Curtis. 



■■ Sykonyme. — Aglossa Streatfeildii, Curtis, British Ent., pi. 455 ; Stephens ; M'ood, fig. 777. 



Species 4. — Aglossa dimidiata*^ — (Plate LXXV., Fig. 11.) — Measures frcrm 10 to 14 lines in expanse ; 

 wings rather narrow, ashy, with a purplish glossy tinge, clouded with about five black nebulae; the costa dark, with 

 paler dots ; hind wings pale brown. Taken in the warehouses of the East India Company, the larva feeding on 

 the tea in the chests ; but Mr. Haworth states, that what " truly fixes the insect as a British species, is that it 

 is never found in any of the chests except such as have become cracked and damaged from prior causes ; " it is, 

 however, rejected by Curtis and Stephens from the native lists, its food not being indigenous. 



' Synonyme. — Crambus dimidiatiis, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, pi. 54, D. Br. Sp., fig. 67. 



PYRALIS, Linnj:us, Stephens. ASOPIA, Treitschke, Cuetis. 

 The antenna are long and pubescent beneath in the males ; the palpi are short, the labial ones curved 

 upwards with a short terminal joint, and the maxillary ones slender and porrected ; the spiral tongue long ; the 

 wings rather elongated, and when closed form a long triangle ; the disc varied with lively hues, and paler strigffi. 

 The caterpillars have sixteen feet. 



Species 1.- — Pyralis farinalis' — (Plate LXXV., Fig. 13) — Measures from 1 to 1^ inch in expanse ; fore 

 wings fulvous-brown, with a purple brown patch at the base, edged with white, and a much curved, slender, sub- 

 apical whitish striga, beyond which the wing is purple brown ; hind wings pale brown, with two pale very 

 much-waved strigse, the space between which is darker, and some dark marginal dots. Taken in and about 

 houses, in July and August ; the caterpillar feeding on meal, flour, &c. The perfect insect sits with the 

 extremity of the body bent considerably upwards. 



' Synonyme. — Phaltena Pyralis farinalis, Linnseus ; Hiibner ; Haworth ; Godart and Dup. ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 778. 



Species 2. — Pyralis pictalis" — (Plate LXXV., Fig. 15) — Measures 10 lines in expanse; fore wings , 

 dull lead-coloured at the base, a broad chesnut white bar across the middle, with the margins slightly waved '^u-^ -Utf 

 and edged with white, a dark dot in the centre, and the extremities of the wings pale, castaneous, tinged with a 

 lead-colour ; hind wings similarly coloured, but with the central fascia narrow and much sinuated. A single 

 specimen taken in Poplar, near London, in July, in the cabinet of Mr. Robertson. 



■» Synonyme. — Asopia piclalis, Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 503 ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 779. 



Species 3. — Pyralis marginatus ° — Measures 1| inch in expanse ; wings brownish and thickly irrorated ^/i^ i^ 

 with a much incurved dark striga at the base, edged with white, and a broader fascia beyond the middle, dark "''" 



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