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another lies beyond it on the disK, followed by a second on 

 the dorsal margin ; the usual costal triangle is obscure and 

 ill-defined, darker brown, followed by an oblique white trans- 

 verse stripe, and this by another, narrower, crossing both 

 lobes ; hind margin edged with black ; cilia dusky white ; 

 the dorsal cilia also white, but shaded with brown clouds. 

 Hind wings shining pale greyish-brown, the cilia of all 

 three lobes of the same colour, and all dusted with dark 

 brown. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky brown, with a white 

 spot beyond the middle of the costa, and a white transverse 

 band before the hind margin. Hind wings with the legs 

 and body ashy-brown. 



On the wing in June. 



Larva cylindrical in the middle, a little smaller at each 

 end ; head small, black ; thoracic shield black, divided by a 

 light line ; anal shield dark brown ; body dark ferruginous- 

 brown ; on the back stand whitish flecks ; raised dots black, 

 those on the sides bearing long light hairs ; legs dark brown. 

 (Gartner.) 



August till May on CrnaphMlium dioicum, and G. arenarium. 



Pupa apparently undescribed. 



The moth flies in the late afternoon and evening among 

 Gnaphalium (cudweed) at road sides and dry banks at the 

 edges of bogs. It was first met with in these islands in 

 June 1895 at Clonbrock, Galway, Ireland, by the Hon. R. E. 

 Dillon and Mr. W. F. de Vismes Kane. Mr. Kane now 

 tells me that he has found it in several localities in Galway 

 and Clare ; but so far as I know it has not as yet been dis- 

 covered in any other part of the British Isles, though nearly 

 ten years earlier it had been indicated by the late Dr. R. C. R. 

 Jordan as a probable inhabitant of these islands. Abroad it 

 is widely distributed in Central and Northern Europe, South- 



