PHYCITID.-E—MYELOIS. 25. 



darker ; hind wings smoky-white, also with darker uervures. 

 Body ochreous. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva and Pipa apparently quite unknown. 



Very little indeed seems to be known about this species. 

 Anton Schmid says that it is found in dry grassy places, 

 rarely ; and other writers refer to it as inhabiting dry ridges, 

 sandhills, and arid commons. The only specimens known to 

 have occurred in these islands were captured by Mr. E. Mey- 

 rick, the author of a " Handbook of British Lepidoptera," at 

 the end of June 1874, at light, in the neighbourhood of 

 Marlborough, Wilts. They were all— nine in number — 

 attracted by the light, and of these several succeeded in 

 immolating themselves in the flame. Strange to say, no sub- 

 sequent specimens have been seen there, or, so far as I know, 

 elsewhere with us. Abroad it is found in Suabia, Silesia, 

 Mecklenburg, Lausitz, Brunswick, and elsewhere in Central 

 Europe, also in Italy, Dalmatia, Livonia, and Finland. 



3. M. ceratonise, Zdl. — Expanse | to 1 inch (18-24 

 mm.). Thorax robust; fore wings elongated, rounded behind, 

 pale slate-grey with a darker slate-grey central band ; lines 

 black with a whitish edging, the first repeatedly indented. 

 Hind wings white, with brown hind margin and nervures. 



Antennae of the male slightly thickened at the base and 

 bent, otherwise simple, shining dark grey; palpi rather 

 thick, short, upcurved, leaden grey; head and thorax slate- 

 grey dusted with darker, the latter thick and strong ; abdo- 

 men rather short, leaden-grey. Fore wings elongate, 

 narrow at the base, but rapidly broader ; costa well arched y 

 apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin evenly and gently 

 rounded, not very oblique ; colour pale slate-grey, thickly 

 dusted with darker ; first line leaden-black, slightly angu- 

 lated above the middle, deeply and sharply so just below, 

 and again near the dorsal margin, also edged inwardly with 



