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tendency to the falcate and pointed form ; the abdomen is 

 not tipped with ochreous : these specimens are, therefore, 

 Porrinaria of Zeller and Herrich-Scha3fFer. I cannot say, 

 however, that I am willing to change the name, more 

 especially as I possess no specimen that agrees with Viridata 

 of Zeller : the subject is well worth investigation. On the 

 other question, whether our Viridata be really the Viridata of 

 Linneus, happily the Linnean specimen described in the 

 * Systema Naturae' still exists, and proves identical with this 

 species taken as a whole ; but if our insect be " split" then it 

 will be very difficult to decide which moiety shall retain the 

 Linnean name. — Edward Newman. 



Description of an Ephestia new to Science. — Ephestia 

 Figulilella expands from ^ an inch to fully f of an inch. 

 Head and thorax silvery gray; abdomen whitish gray; 

 superior wing gray, finely irrorate ; costa round, first stria 

 acute from costa outwards to discal space, then nearly 

 straight or slightly inward, forms a rather broken line across 

 the first-third of the wing ; second striga placed beyond the 

 third of the wing,, acute from costa towards the discal space, 

 afterwards wavy inwards across the wing (this marking is 

 often ill-defined), then a well-defined row of about seven 

 dark squarish spots; cilia silvery gray, having three dark fine 

 lines through it; the outer one, broadest in the disk of the 

 wing, is often a well-defined cuneiform streak, the point 

 towards the angle of the first striga, and the fold of the wing 

 is ochrey yellow along its whole length ; inferior wings 

 silvery, somewhat hyaline, the nerves showing plainly; cilia 

 silvery white. This fine and distinct species has now been 

 plentiful upon warehouse walls, in Liverpool, for several 

 years; and 1 have bred it, upon figs and raisins, from eggs 

 laid by copulated females. The second brood have produced 

 small specimens, no larger than E. elutella; from it or its 

 variety, semirufa of Ha worth. From E. ficella of Douglas, 

 its round costa separates it at a glance. — C S, Gregson. 



On Turnip Insects during 1870. By James Hardy, Esq. 



During the summer of 1870 the turnip beetle, or "fly" 

 (llaltica Ncmorum), has been a complete scourge throughout 



