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stems of Galamag7'0stis epigcios in damp places ; the infected 

 plants may be recognised by the yellow heart-leaves. 

 (Kretschmar ; Dr. llofmann.) Probably this larva has never 

 been noticed in this country. The late Mr. F. Bond was 

 under the impression that he had reared the moth from a 

 larva found feeding in the upper part of a reed-stem, when 

 collecting those of Galainia phragniitidia. 



Pupa pale yellow, in a light cocoon of silk and earth ; the 

 larva when full fed quitting the grass-stem for pupation. (Id.) 



The moth doubtless hides in the daytime among dead grass- 

 leaves on the ground. It tlies at dusk and through the night, 

 coming readily to sugar, and still more so to a strong light, 

 and has a rather soft and gentle flight. It appears to have been 

 first taken in this country in 1817 at Yaxley Fen, by the late 

 Mr. F, Bond, and continued to be met with there commonly 

 until the fen was destroyed. It was also found at that time 

 at Whittlesea Mere and Holme Fen. In 1872, when Dr. 

 F. D. Wheeler was energetically working up the insects of 

 the Cambridgeshire Fen district, the only information which 

 he could obtain as to this species was that it still existed in 

 the wetter portions of Monks Wood, Hunts. Here he found 

 it, but also — to his great surprise — far more commonly in 

 Wicken Fen, where he captured it freely at sugar, flying at 

 dusk and. later in the night, at light ; and in this fen it has 

 been found year by year to the present time. Mr. Bond 

 stated that he had taken it at Wicken many years before, 

 and it seems perplexing that it should have been passed over 

 for so many years, except that in flight it is not unlike 

 T.falva. Other localities are Chippenham Fen, Whittlesford, 

 and Chatteris, all in Cambridgeshire, and Monks Wood and 

 elsewhere in Huntingdonshire ; indeed it probably occurs in 

 every suitable spot in those two counties. Elsewhere records 

 are very meagre, and it must surely be overlooked, since it 

 has been taken near Yarmouth, Norfolk ; once in Lincoln- 

 shire ; and Major Still secured a single specimen in one of 



