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beyond the middle, oblique in the opposite direction, straight 

 or faintly curved, almost white or pale red ; central space 

 partially dusted with white and with brown, often a darker 

 shade lying in the discal cell ; bind marginal area dusted 

 with white, especially so toward the apex ; cilia glossy pale 

 red-brown. Hind wings rather ample, rounded behind ; 

 shining smoky-brown : cilia paler. Female similar, or often 

 browner, the white lines and dusting obscured. 



Underside of the fore wings shining smoky-browu with 

 the oblique second line faintly indicated. Hind wings 

 glossy leaden-white with darker nervures. Body brown. 



On the wing in July and the beginning of August. 



Larva apparently undescribed ; living in a loose silken 

 tube under plants of OnonU, on which it doubtless feeds, on 

 the sands of the sea-coast. 



Sorhagen says that it feeds in June on Scdinn scxangidare,- 

 living in a thick white silken gallery which extends from the 

 lower part of the flowering stems to the roots. Other authors 

 give Artenusia campestris, Gnaphaliuin dioicuui and G. idigi- 

 nosum. Genista and Ononis. 



Pi'PA rather slender, verj- neat, and almost ovate in form ; 

 eye-covers strongly marked ; antenna-cases long, prominent, 

 sculptured in the interstices of ihe joints; leg-cases also 

 rather prominent ; wing-covers rounded up, very smooth 

 and even ; front portion of every segment much pitted, the 

 hind bands ridged; abdomen not tapering much, the anal 

 segment thick and suddenly rounded off; cremaster merely 

 furnished with a close projecting tuft of fine hooked bristles, 

 general colour red-brown. In a small, white, fusiform 

 cocoon, on the procumbent dead stems of Ononis, on the 

 surface of the sand. Found in this situation, commonly, by 

 Mr. A. Thurnall. 



The moth loves to hide during the day in the thick masses 

 of restharrow (Ononis), on sea sandhills. If these masses- 



