446 LEPIDOPTERA. 



The moth with iis frequenta sea-sandhills, flying about 

 sunset, close to the ground, among the short sandhill herb- 

 age, on warm suuuy evenings. Excessively local, and appa- 

 rently confined, so far as this country is concerned, to the 

 coast of Norfolk and Suffolk. The first specimens known 

 here seem to have been captured about the year 1840 at the 

 lighthouse, Lowestoft, by the late Mr. H. F. Farr. Shortly 

 afterwards he left that district, and no more specimens seem 

 to have been met with until 1880, when a few were taken on 

 the north coast of Norfolk by Mr. E. A. Atmore. He also 

 has taken it in subsequent years, and in 1884 saw it in some 

 numbers. I have myself searched for it on the same coast 

 but without result, and have no knowledge of any more 

 recent captures. Except a doubtful record of a specimen at 

 Deal, Kent, no other locality for this species is known in the 

 British Isles. Other supposed records appear in all cases to 

 refer to a well-known variety of AncrasUa lotclla in which 

 the costa is dull white. 



Abroad the present species is found in sandy districts in 

 the South and AVest of France, in Holland, Belgium, North 

 and West Germany, Hungary, the Trans-Caspian districts. 

 Northern Africa, and even in North America. 



Genus 7. HYPOCHALCIA. 



Antennas of the male not pectinated, thickened to one 

 half their length, the basal joint more thickened, and the 

 second flattened and elbowed ; palpi long, pointed and con- 

 spicuously porrected ; tongue small, covered in front with 

 scales ; thorax not slender ; fore wings rather broad, more 

 so behind, but the cell narrow ; hind wings verj' ample. 

 Female much smaller. 



We have but one species — several others are found on the 

 Continent of Kurope. 



1. H. aheneUa, Scliiff. — Expanse I to l{ inch. Fore 

 wings elongated but broad, and rather squared behind. 



