EUCHROMius] CRAMBIDAE 397 



Britain to Dumfries, very scarce, almost certainly accident- 

 ally imported ; S. Europe, WC. Asia to Turkestan, Africa, 

 N. America, Australia, Hawaiian Islands; 9-3. The larval 

 habits are unknown ; from the available evidence, however, it 

 seems likely that the species is introduced in the pupa state 

 amongst the packing material of grocery -cases from the Medi- 

 terranean, where it is alone native. If this should be confirmed, 

 the insect ought to be excluded from British lists. 



5. Child, Zk. 



Face with conical horny projection. Tongue short. An- 

 tennae in $ ciliated. Forewings : 7 separate. Hindwings : 4 and 

 5 connate or stalked, 7 closely approximated or connate with 6. 



A small but very generally distributed group ; there are 

 only two European species. 



Forewings with pale darker-edged costal streak 2. cicatricellus. 

 ,, without pale costal streak . 1. pkragmitellus. 



1. 0. phragmitellus, Rb. S 23-28 mm., ? 29-37 mm. 

 Labial palpi longer than head and thorax. Forewings in 5 

 much narrower and more acute than in c? ; pale ochreous, 

 more or less suffused with brown, especially in ($ , tending to 

 form dark streaks on and between veins ; a dark fuscous discal 

 dot ; termen sinuate. Hindwings pale whitish-ochreous or 

 whitish, in (J fuscous-tinged. 



England to York, local ; C. Europe, WC. Asia to Turkestan ; 

 6, 7. Larva ochreous -whitish ; dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral 

 lines reddish -brown ; head and plate of 2 yellowish -brown : in 

 stems of Phragmites and Glyceria ; 9-5. 



2. 0. cicatricellus, Hb. 25-32 mm. Labial palpi shorter 

 than head and thorax. Forewings varying from pale ochreous 

 to brown, darker -sprinkled ; a paler costal streak, edged 

 beneath with darker suffusion ; a darker pale-circled discal dot ; 

 a posterior transverse series of dark dots, sometimes obsolete ; 

 termen in $ slightly sinuate. Hindwings whitish, often 

 suffused with grey. 



Kent, scarce and local ; C. Europe ; 7. Larva whitish, 

 reddish-tinged ; dorsal line dark reddish ; head ochreous ; plate 

 of 2 ochreous, posteriorly black -spotted : in stems of Scir-pus 

 lacustris ; 5, 6. 



4. PYRAUSTIDAE. 



Ocelli and maxillary palpi almost always developed. An- 

 tennae in (J filiform or serrate, ciliated. Forewings : lb 



