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yellowish tint ; there is a double dorsal thread to be seen 

 under the skin with a lens ; spiracles small, oval, flat, and of 

 the ground colour ; raised dots hard to detect, slightly darker 

 than the skin, and each has a fine hair which shines golden 

 in the sunlight. (W. Buckler, condensed.) 



August till May — or the following May — usually feeding 

 during a large portion of two years — on wheat-husks, the 

 refuse of wheat stacks and clover ricks, and in old thatch of 

 sedge {Cladium), always spinning together the refuse and 

 forming a silken tube ; or making use of a straw, bean-husk, 

 or folded leaf of Cladmm, as a private retreat; only thriving 

 when its food is in a somewhat damp condition. 



Pupa cylindrical, all the outlines rounded, wing-cases 

 short and rounded, and the abdomen also rounded at the 

 end, having there a very short blunt spike furnished with 

 four curly-topped spines ; the skin rather glossy ; the colour 

 pale mahogany brown on the back, paler on the under 

 surface ; the anal tip and spike dark brown. In a tough 

 cocoon of white silk, the outside of which is stuck all over 

 with bits of the straw and husk among which it has lived. 

 (W. Buckler.) 



The metropolis of this local species with us seems to be 

 the district lying around Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire. It 

 does not seem to be found at all, or only casually, in the 

 Fen, but sits on and in old stables, barns, and outhouses, even 

 in oil-cake stores, at the farms of that district, and has also 

 been shaken out of thatch. From this locality most of our 

 cabinets have been supplied. Elsewhere it seems usually to 

 occur rarely or even singly, but is recorded from Kent, Dorset, 

 Devon, Berks, Middlesex, Herts, Essex, Suffolk, Cheshire, 

 and Lancashire. So far as I know this is the extent of its 

 range in these Islands. Abroad it inhabits Central Europe, 

 many parts of Southern Europe including the Island of 

 Corsica; Asia Minor, Syria, Armenia, the Canary Isles; North 

 and South Africa. North and South America, and Australia. 



