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these representing the usual lirst and second lines, but dis- 

 placed — the outer faintly edged with whitish-brown ; toward 

 the apex is a costal red-brown cloud ; along the hind margin 

 a black-brown line, edged inwardly above the middle with 

 white, below by three black dots ; cilia brilliant bronzy- 

 brown. Hind wings rather narrowly trigonate, with I'ounded 

 angles, and the hind margin sinnoiis; pale smoky brown, 

 darker at the hind margin ; cilia long, shining whitish- 

 brown. Female diflerent, its antenn;e ringed with white ; 

 palpi, head, and thorax creamy-white ; fore wings white, 

 clouded along the costa and hind margin with pale brown ; 

 the transverse lines white with pale brown edgings, and 

 showing most distinctly as oblique white costal streaks ; 

 hind wings paler grey-brown. 



Undei-side of the fore wings in the male pale brown; 

 hind wings paler ; body and legs brown ; the female all 

 white with a little brown shading. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Lakva about half an inch long, slender, the head highly 

 polished, the lobes rounded, yellow or yellowish-brown, the 

 mandibles darker brown, freckles on the lobes of the same 

 colour ; ground colour varying from flesh-pink to greyish- 

 brown, or dingy olive-green ; dorsal and anal plates, raised 

 dots, and spiracles, of a darker shade of the ground colour ; 

 legs ringed with this darker shade ; no other markings. 

 (G. T. Porritt — condensed, j 



April and May, feeding on tlie loots of stiff grasses, and 

 probably of the smaller sedges — but names of food plants not 

 ascertained, preferring roots which grow under stones in 

 sandy soil. 



Pita undesci-ibed. 



A very local species, occurring principally on sandy heaths 

 and other sandy places, or on chalk and limestone hills, and 

 exceedingly abundant where it occurs. Hiding in the day 



