PHVCITID.-E-EUZOPHERA. if 



are well stirred up it may be induced to creep lazily out. At 

 dusk it flies freely over these patches and the neighbouring 

 dense herbage, and later at night sits about upon the same 

 plants. An e.xceedingly local species in this country, but 

 plentiful where it occurs ; apparentlj' confined to the firmer 

 and more settled portions of coast sandhills. First noticed 

 here in the year 1857, when specimens were secured at 

 Folkestone, Kent ; but has since been found in far greater 

 abundance on the neighbouring coast at Deal, and at ^ ar- 

 mouth, Norfolk ; also quite recently near Felixstowe, Suffolk. 

 So far as I know this is the extent of its range in these 

 Islands. Abroad it seems to be common and widely distri- 

 buted in Central and Southern Europe — apparently not 

 restricted to the sea-coast — also found in Livonia, Eussia, 

 Bithynia, Persia, Armenia, and Tartary. 



Genus 11. EUZOPHERA. 



Antennffi simple, thick, bent back from the basal joint, 

 which is large ; palpi small and slender, curved up, second 

 joint ciliated. Fore wings elongated, but rather broad, and 

 the cell wide, vein 3 arising before the angle of the cell ; 

 hind wings ample, the cell long, but vein 5 absent ; veins 7 

 and 8 joined. 



We have two species — sufficiently distinct. 



A. Fore wings reddish-drab with black 



transverse bands. E. jnnijuis. 



A'-. Fore wings pale brownish-drab with 



faint oblique reddish markings. E. cinrrosclla. 



1. E. pinguis, Hair. — Expanse f to 1^ inch (18- 

 28 mm.). Robust ; fore wings elongate, but broad and 

 blunt ; reddish-drab with two broad black waved bands 

 before the middle, and two, raucli more slender, beyond. 

 Hind wings shining, smoky-white or smoky-brown. 



Antennae of the male thickened and elbowed at the base, 



