LA RENTID.-E—EMMELESIA . 2 1 9 



SO far as I know, is Lancashire. In Wales it was obtained 

 in Glamorganshire in 1SG7, 1869, and 1871', by Sir J. T. D. 

 Llewelyn, and also at Inis-y-gerwn by Mr. Vivian. In 

 Ireland JMr. Eirchall records a specimen at Killarneyin 1861, 

 and another was taken in County Cork in 1898. There is 

 no reason to suppose that any permanent locality for it exists 

 in these islands. There can, I think, be little doubt that all 

 the specimens captured are themselves immigrants or the 

 immediate descendants of such, for I do not think that the 

 species in any stage can survive the inclemency of our more 

 severe winters ; while it is certain that there are warmer regions 

 of the earth in which it so abounds that the migratory instinct 

 may probably be stimulated. It is plentiful in Southern 

 Europe, especially in Spain and Turkey, in Asia Minor. 

 Cyprus, Syria, all parts of India, Madeira, the Canaries, 

 and throughout Africa from Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt 

 to the Cape Colony and Natal. 



Genus 11. EMMELESIA. 



Antenna; small and simple ; palpi short and blunt ; head 

 smooth ; thorax rough, squarely crested at tlie back ; abdomen 

 slender and rather short ; fore wings blunt, rounded behind, 

 very neat and having always a rivulet-like transverse stripe 

 just beyond the middle; hind wings rather elongated 

 smoothly rounded behind, vein 5 arising above the middle of 

 the cell ; veins 7 and 8 united far down the cell. 



Larva rather short and thick, feeding mainly on seeds 

 within the capsules of herbaceous plants. 



Pup^ in the ground. 



The species may be tabuLited thus : 



A. Fore wings dark unibreous or dark olive-brown; the 



rivulet white. 

 13. The rivulet rather narrow, meandering, distinctly 



divided liy a dottrd line. E. offutitafa. 



