136 The Scottish Naturalist. 



have sixteen legs, and are of dull colour, with the usual spots 

 conspicuous,) of some species, at least, feed on moss, within 

 silken galleries. Among these axefalsellus (which I have reared 

 from larvae feeding on various species of moss growing on walls 

 and rocks), and hortuellus (Treitschke ; Die Schmetterlinge 

 von Eurofia, IX. i. 84). The larvae of fascelinellus feed on the 

 sea-wheat grass (Triticum junceum), spinning silken galleries 

 about the roots of the plants (see notes by C. G. Barrett in 

 Entomologist' 's Monthly Magazine, VI. 144 \ and by W. Buckler, 

 in the same journal, VII. 160). 



I have seen the eggs of several species. That of pinellus is 

 oblong-oval, with about twelve sharp somewhat distant longi- 

 tudinal ribs, connected by finer and closer ridges; it is whitish in 

 colour. The egg of margaritellus is greenish-yellow, oblong, and 

 slightly oval, rounded at each end, and one end slightly smaller ; 

 the surface is shining, and covered with slight oval depressions 

 placed side by side — not end to end — and arranged in wavy 

 longitudinal lines. The egg of pratellus is oval, more pointed at 

 one end, pale yellow, and ornamented with slight longitudinal 

 ridges connected by slight cross-bars. The eggs of all the 

 species I have seen were not fastened to any object. 



Some contractions and terms nsed in this paper require explanation. F.-w. 

 =front wing. H.-"vv.=hind wing. Costa=the front margin of the wing. 

 Cilia=the fringes. Central line=a transverse line crossing the wing abont the 

 middle. Hind line=a transverse line crossing the wing near the hind-margin. 

 In some species both these lines are present ; often, only the hind line ; in a 

 few species, neither. Z,.=a line (the twelfth of an inch). The size (from 

 tip of one wing to tip of the other) of each species is given in lines. 



CRAMBUS Fab. 



Head with two ocelli. Tongue long. Labial palpi long, 

 porrected, forming a long beak, partially covered by the maxil- 

 lary palpi. Antennae usually simple. Front wing oblong, 

 central cell reaching to the middle, and twelve veins run- 

 ning to the margins ; the 8th vein (counting from the inner 

 margin) springs from the 7th, and the 9th from the 8th ; hind- 

 margin generally blunt, tip somtimes produced. Hind wings 

 broad, the 7th vein springing from the apex of the anterior part 

 of the central cell, and the 8th from the 7th. Front wings with 

 no stigmata, but often with a pale central longitudinal streak, 

 and with two transverse lines (one or both of which are some- 



