10 LEPIDOPTERA. 



costa straiglit to beyond the middle, then a little arched; 

 iipex sharjily pointed ; hind niartriu very obli(|ue and gently 

 curved ; dor.sal margin a little rounded, strongly ciliated ; 

 colour orauge-tawny or reddish-ljrown ; first line obli(|ue and 

 rather curved, second also obli(ine and sinuous, both obscurely 

 darker, red-l)ro\vn ; central line almost parallel with the 

 second, of the same colour, sliuhtlv more distinct: sub- 

 terminal line very faint and undulating, forming the edge of 

 a most obscure series of small pale clouds, hardly perceptible ; 

 cilia eoncolorous. Hind wings rather elongated, rounded 

 behind ; of precisely the colour of the fore wings ; before the 

 middle is an undulating transverse red-browu line, and close 

 outside it the faint similar central spot or dot ; beyond is 

 another transverse line of tlu^ same colour, but more sinuous ; 

 and beyond it faint indications of another, or even two more, 

 near the hind margin ; cilia tawny. Female quite similar, 

 bat with simple antenna?. 



Undersides of all the wings rather })aler tawny, dusted 

 with darker brown, the transverse lines — except the first on 

 the fore wings^repeated as on the upper side, but rather 

 more distinct and darker. I'ody and legs fulvous or tawny, 

 the latter pale, not tufted. 



Apparently not variable. 



On the win" in June, and as a second seueration, in 

 August. 



L.\KV.v grej-'brown ; ilorsal and subdorsal lines interrupted 

 on every segment, the streaks slender, pointed iu front. 

 (Hiissler. ) 



July, and September.- on grasses, especially the sjiecies of 

 Fidtn-d. (Rossler.) 



I'n'.\ ajiparcntly uudescribed. 



< Ine of the most rare of ]5ritish insects, its history is 

 somewhat doubtful in constMjuence of confusion with the 

 previous species — the latter having long been known under 

 the uame of the ])resent — and a few examples exist in 



