INTEODUCTION. 



Whilst the history of Tortrices has been so ably 

 treated by Mr. Wilkinson and the Tiucina by Mr. 

 Stainton, the Pyralidse and their allies have been so 

 far somewhat negleeted in this country. The object of 

 this treatise is to set before the student an illustrated 

 list of the British examples of this group ; and, as far 

 as the writer's knowledge and research will cai-ry him, 

 the localities and conditions in which each species has 

 been found, the dates of their appearance, and also a 

 brief description of tlieir larvie and food-plants. 



The life-history of these species is in many eases 

 founded on the personal experience of the writer, or 



