no LEPIDOl'TERA. 



baud; cremaster conical, tipped witli a pair of very fiim 

 curved iiair-Iike spikes, and some mimite hooked bristles; 

 pale yellow-brown, wing-covers sometimes olive-brown or 

 olive-green, cremaster rather darker. In a slight cocoon of 

 silk and earth, in the ground. 



The moth hides itself during the day among its food- 

 plant, or sits closely pressed to a rail, post, or paling near at 

 hand, its abdomen curved conspicuously upwards. It flies at 

 late dusk about waste places, at road sides, and in neglected 

 portions of gardens, also in plenty about the masses of 

 Chciiopodiiiiii and Atriplcr at the edges of salt marshes, the 

 banks of tidal rivers, and ditches near the coast, and generally 

 where these plants are plentiful ; coming occasionally to 

 a neighbouring gas-lamp or other convenient light later in 

 the night. Still to be found, not uncommonly in gardens in the 

 London suburbs, and throughout the southern half of England, 

 most frequently in the Eastern Counties, and on the flatter 

 sea-coasts ; not common in the Midlands though known to 

 occur in Leicestershire,. Staffordshire, and Derby.shire ; more 

 frequent, especially on the coast, in Yorkshire, Cheshire and 

 Lancashire. In Wales it occurs in Denbighshire, Glamor- 

 sranshire and Pembrokeshire : in Scotland there is a singrle 

 record in the extreme south-west ; and in Ireland it is rather 

 common on the coast near Dublin. Abroad it is found in 

 France, Holland, (rermanj-, Hungary, Livonia, Finland, and 

 apparently in tlie north of Palestine. 



31. E. campanulata, II.-S. — Expanse t to 1 inch. 

 Fore wings broad, blunt, glossy, light reddish-brown; discal 

 spot black ; transverse lines faint and few ; nervures dotted 

 with brown. Hind wings pale brown. 



Antennas of the male rather short, simple, finely ciliated, 

 light shining brown; palpi blunt, dark reddish-brown, 

 whiter at the tips : head and neck-ridge umbreous dusted 

 with darker ; thorax reddish-brown ; abdomen dull brown. 

 spotted on the sides with black, dorsal ridge furnished with 



