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C.—A WHEAT PEST IN CYPRUS. 
oliowing preliminary Report upon a species of Tineina, an 
for publieation in the Bulletin by Mr. Arthur E. Shipley, F.L.S., 
Fellow and Lecturer of Christ College, Cambridge, and Lecturer on 
Entomology at the Indian Civil Engineering College, Cooper's Hill :— 
I am indebted to Dr. P for the material upon which the 
peradaj report has been draw It consisted of four specimens of 
he moth, some of them unfortunately mutilated — an accident ; 
a cbnstilerablé number of larvæ of various sizes ; an specimens of 
upz, one of them formed in the leaf between the otl 
epidermis, the others on pieces of course linen. There were also 
several pieces of leaf, containing between the upper and lower lamins 
numerous roundish bodies which I at first thought might be eggs, but 
which turned out to be excreta containing fragments of undigested 
spiral vessels and sometimes chlorophyll grains. The whole of the 
peers im was preserved in spirit with the exception of one moth. 
oth is known in Vo Pa as the Sirüwil. 
i the fragmentary condition of the moths, there was great 
diffieulty in erm him Ah them. Mr. Stainton, the great authority on the 
em has been good enougli to examine the specimens and to inform 
me that he is disposed to refer the insect to the species cophora 
paas i (Lederer) of which he has specimens from Beyrout and 
ydia. This species was also found by the Rev. O. P. Ca ambridge 
widely distributed throughout Palestine. 
temperatella has been described by Mr. Stainton in his work on 
“The Tineina of Syria and Asia Minor.” ‘The female he informs me 
by letter is described in the same work as a separate species, (E. fusco- 
fasciata, though he he stated at the time that he was strongly disposed to 
. think that it was the female of Œ. — 
s description of the species.—* Head an and face 
* ochreous at the sides, black in "^ centre. Palpi long, recurved, 
“ ochreous, the tip of the terminal joint dark grey. Thorax pale or 
* dark ochreous, cerca Pe with the anterior wings. Antenne slender 
* dark grey somewhat serrated.” 
* Anterior wings ibirit ochreous, bright or rather pale and with a 
very faint greenish tinge; the surface is more or less scattered with 
grey, with the cilia a little paler.” 
**'The distance between the tips of the expanded wings is seven or 
eight lines 
The larves are of a hi brown colour, and consist of 12 well- 
marked segments behind the head. The head is encased in a covering 
of dark brown chitin, and two triangular patches of chitin of the same 
colour almost cover the dorsa aspect of the first or pro-thoracic 
segment. ‘The most posterior segment also bears a single plate of chitin 
in the posterior half of its dorsum 
Each segment has on its dorsal surface a transverse groove dividing 
it into an anterior and a posterior half. The second and third thoracic 
segments are provided om more rese get folds. The anterior half 
of the abdominal segments bears a pair of brown spots dorsally, one 
each side of the middle line, rl on each side are two more dots close 
together, one rather larger than the other. Below these the skin is 
rather more whitish than elsewhere and in this whitish patch just above 
