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through the dusk it flies freely, of its own accord, over the 

 same plants. Common on some parts of the sea-coast, 

 especially where, on the firmer portions of the sandhills, 

 Aiithcmis and its allies grow in large tangled patches ; but 

 not restricted to such spots, and even to be found — though 

 not plentifully — in the suburbs of London. Found — often 

 commonly — in Kent, Sussex, the Isle of "Wight and Hayling 

 Island, Hants, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Gloucester- 

 shire, Herts, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Cheshire, 

 Lancashire, Durham, and the Isle of Man ; in Wales in Pem- 

 brokeshire ; in Scotland on the coasts of Wigtown and Kirk- 

 cudbright, and rarely in the Edinburgh district ; and in 

 Ireland plentifully on the coasts of Dublin, Wicklow and 

 Sligo. Abroad it is common all over the Continent of 

 Europe, except the Arctic jjortions ; also in Armenia, Syria, 

 Palestine, and the Canaries. 



Genus 19. EPHESTIA. 



Antenna of the male simple but thickened a little and 

 bent slightly back after the first joint ; palpi small, slender, 

 ascending ; fore wings long and narrow, the base very 

 narrow, and the discal ceil narrowed and elongated ; under 

 the costal margin is a narrow lappet usuall}^ furnished with 

 a tuft of long hair-scales ; hind wings ample, veins 5 and 8 

 absent, the cross bar sharply angulated. 



We have six species, rather closely allied and similar. 



A. Fore wings not elongated nor very narrow. 



B. Ground colour light brown. E. scmirufn. 

 B-. Ground colour brownish-grey. E. tlutdla. 

 A-. Fore wings elongated, very narrow at the base. 



B^. Ground colour dull yellow-brown, first line erect. 



E. culiiritcUa . 

 B*. Ground colour slate-grey. 



C. First line black, conspicuously indented. E. ccdidella. 

 C". First line faint, erect, dark grey. E. ficulella. 



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