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formed by a few threads of coarse silk, drawing- togetlier 

 morsels of its food-plant, or of moss ; upon the ground. 



The moth flies rather steadily in the daytime, settling upon 

 stems of grass, and on herbage. Whether it flies also at 

 night does not appear to be known. It is an excessively 

 local species in this country, and almost confined to the sea- 

 coast. It appears first to have been discovered, so far as this 

 country is concerned, at Southend, Essex, somewhere between 

 1816 and 1850, by the late Mr. 8. Stevens, and was then 

 common in that locality, and along the Essex coast, at St. 

 Osyth and elsewhere ; now it seems to have almost dis- 

 appeared from that district. More recently it was found in 

 far greater numbers on the coast of Kent, near Deal and 

 Sandown, sometimes flitting about in plenty over favourita 

 spots of a few dozen yards extent, and, although incessantly 

 harassed by collectors, and almost trampled out of existence 

 by excursionists, it still, I believe, maintains a precarious 

 existence in that locality. It has also been found in the Isle 

 of Wight, and once — a single specimen — near Aldborough, 

 Suftblk. I know of no other localities for it in these islands. 

 Abroad it is a widely distributed species, not confined to the 

 sea-shore, but found in meadows and the borders of woods 

 in Central Europe, many portions of Southern Europe, 

 including the South of Spain ; Asia Minor, Cyprus, Bithynia, 

 and Northern Persia. 



o. A. perochraria, Flsdi. — Expanse 1 inch. Fulvous 

 or orange-tawny ; fore wings elongated, pointed, ornamented 

 with four, and the hind with three, very faint, slender, darker 

 tawny transverse lines. 



Antennaj of the male deeply notched and very strongly 

 ciliated with bristles long enough to simulate pectinations, 

 light brown, but each notch black-lirown on its inner side ; 

 palpi small and slender, light brown ; eyes reticulated, dark 

 purple-brown; face puriilish -brown; head. thorax. and abdomen 

 light red-brown or tawny ; tufts all small, fore wings pointed ; 



