68 LEPIDOPTERA 



it is kuowii to occur npou tliose of Dublin, Wexford and 

 Antrim, and is probably more widely distributed at the sea- 

 side. Abroad it is not confined to the coast, but occurs also 

 in especially sandy districts, in Central Europe, Western 

 Russia, Greece, Jiitliyuia, and the trans-Caucasian region. 



Family 0. CRAMBIDJE. 



Antennas simple, sometimes notched ; head prominent ; 

 palpi long, porrected,the maxillary noticeable, and triangularly 

 scaled at the base ; tongue small or even minute ; fore wings 

 narrowly oblong, veins 5 and 4 close together ; hind wings 

 having the upper side of the median uervure prominent, 

 often ridged, also furnished with a row of long hair-scales; 

 veins 4 and 5 either close together or joined ; thorax and 

 abdomen rather slender. 



Genus 1 . EROMENE. 



Antennas of the male simple, but flattened and thickened ; 

 palpi porrected, double the length of the head, roughly 

 scaled, the maxillary short, broad, and rather upraised ; a 

 prominent tuft of scales on the face ; fure wings bluntly 

 pointed, having a jewelled black hind margin ; hind wings 

 short, having a fringe or ridge of scales on the median 

 nervure. 



We have but one species — if any r 



1. E. ocellea, Hnw. — Expanse | inch (20-23 mm.). 

 Fore wings pale yellow-brown ; two shining golden trans- 

 verse lines lie beyond the middle, and another round the 

 apex; hind margin set with jewelled black spots. Hind 

 wings glossy grey with a bluish pearly lustre. 



Antennte of the male rather short, simple, whitish-brown ; 

 palpi porrected and a little curved downward, pale drab; 

 head and thorax brownish-white; abdomen slender, glisten- 

 ing, silky whitish-brcwr, all the tufts whiter and the anal 



