CATALOGUE OF MOTES. O 



PYEALID^, Gn. 

 PYRALIS, Linn. 



5. Pyralis costalis, Fab. Gold FKmGE, 



Pyralis costalis. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 134. 

 ,, „ Leech, Brit. Pyr., p. 11. 



,, „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 427. 



Imago. Leech, pi, ii., fig. 5. 



This is rather a southern insect, but it is recorded more than 

 once for York. It is in the Twizell list, which I thought must 

 surely be an error, though the species is a very distinct one, 

 but I find it has also been taken at Newcastle by the late W. 

 Maling (see Entom. ix., p. 19), "one specimen of the pretty 

 little Pyralis Jimlrialis.'''' Leech says the larva feeds on 

 " stacked clover, preferring the lower and moister parts, living 

 in a web." Other writers do not appear to know anything of 

 the larva, and Mr. Buckler never figured it. 



6. P. farinalis, Linn. Meal Moth. 



Pyralis farinalis. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 134. 

 ,, ,, Leech, Brit. Pyr., p. 12. 



,, „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 427. 



Imago. Leech, pi. ii., fig. 6. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. ix., pi. cxlix., fig. 2. 



A very common species in its peculiar haunts, flour mills, 

 meal warehouses, stables, &c., occasionally in houses. The 

 larva, which, is said to live two years, feeds in a silken tube 

 among flour and meal refuse. It is frequently found on ledges 

 or projections in these places where dust accumulates, and does 

 not disdain straw, for I have bred the insect from larvse found 

 in a paillasse. The imago varies greatly in size, probably from 

 a plentiful or spare supply of food. The perfect insect comes 

 to sugar, and Mr. Gardner took a single specimen in this way 

 in Hezleden Dene, but is more generally seen in stables and 



