142 LEPIDOPTERA. 



more particularly toward the costa, where this line is 

 decidedly curved back. Hind wings rounded, white at 

 the base and apex, but with the middle area tinged with 

 smbky-grey and reddish; all the nervures broadly dusted 

 with black atoms ; cilia white. In the female the fore wings 

 are broader and more decidedly acuminate, and quite as 

 strongly honey-coloured ; body stouter, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale buff tinged in the middle 

 with brown ; before the apex is a black spot on the costa, 

 indicating a faint slender transverse line. Hind wings 

 yellowish-white dusted with black and having a slender 

 series of black dashes on the nervures. 



The only variety at present known is a female having the 

 second line formed of a complete and conspicuous curved 

 line of black dashes and spots from the costal to the dorsal 

 margin, where it is supplemented by other cloudy black 

 scales along that margin, and by a black spot in the position 

 from which would arise the ordinary first line. 



On the wing at the end of June and in July. 



Larva and Pupa unknown. 



This insect, which appears to have been previously quite 

 unknown and unseen, both here and abroad, was described 

 by me in the Entornulogist s Monthly Magazine in the year 1896 

 from specimens taken in the previous summer, on the coast 

 of Suffolk and Essex, by Mr. Gervase F. Mathew, E.N. 

 They were secured at night feeding at the flowers of 

 one of the larger grasses, with other species of Leucania. 

 In 1896 he obtained seven more examples, but being at 

 that time ordered on foreign service, he has been unable 

 as yet to investigate further. As already stated, no other 

 locality is known either in the United Kingdom or abroad. 



5. Li. straminea, T/.— Expanse l\ to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings rather pointed, broad behind, whitish-drab with abun- 

 dant fine dark longitudinal lines and a long black-brown 



