2f>f> LF.rinorTERA. 



I'i'PA sliort, olii'se; ln-ad lutlicr prqjpctinf)^ and rounded; 

 full at the hack and thickly sciilpturecl witli ti-aiisverse linos ; 

 thorax very convex ; wing-cases tiiickened. rather smooth, 

 but niiniitriy sculptured with fine lines ; dorsal and 

 ahcloniinal si'ginents thickly ])itted. hut ]iin<ler edges smooth ; 

 anal seo-inent hlunt. crcniastt'r short, wedge-shaped, shining 

 black, and hearing at its extremity two stout divaricating 

 bristles ; colour of the head, thorax and wing-cases trans- 

 parent olive-green, of the abdomen dull brown. 



The moth is said to sit during tlie (hay with outsjjread 

 wings pressed closely to the surface on which it rests, after 

 the manner (if the Kii iiilhnui ; it llii-s at dusk, and somr- 

 times sits at night, with wings erect, upon the llowers of its 

 food plant, the meadow-rue. It was first found in this 

 country in IS 17, and was rccoi'ded by Mr. 11. Doubleday in 

 the following year. Ivxi'cedingly local with us, and confined 

 almost entirely to fens and their immediate neighbourhood, 

 though in thosH districts it may he found even in gardens, or 

 wherever its food plant grows. Tlif first captures were 

 made near I'eterhorough, proljahly at Hurwell Fen — which 

 has long been drained and converted into corn-land — and it 

 was soon found to inhabit all the fens of Cambridgeshire and 

 Huntingdonshire, and in some places to be tolerably plenti- 

 ful. ]i"ss common in the Norfolk fens, yet found at Norwich. 

 IJrinidall, Surlingham, Aldehy, and Thetford ; also in the 

 fenny portions of Sntl'olk. Klsewhere it is reported from 

 Bewdley Forest, AVorcestershire, and from the neighbourhood 

 of Rugby. So far as is known this is the extent of its range 

 in these islands. 



Abroad it is found in Northern (lermany. Saxony, 

 Austria, Hungary, Holland, and Livonia. 



(i. C. russata, NrA ///'.; truncata, Stai'd. Got. — Ex- 

 panse l.[ to 1^. inch. Fore wings broad, blunt, brown, 

 grey-brown, or smoky-brown ; central band blacker or 



