72 LEl'IDOPTERA. 



amonpr grasses and low growing sedges, and Hying out in 

 dozens at the footstep — except that the female is more 

 sluggish, and although it has been known to Hy in plenty 

 at midday after a shower of rain, is usually only to be found 

 at that time by close search in the tufts close to the ground — 

 I have found it especially to fre({uent the tnfts of Cori:i 

 areno.rin. At dusk both sexes fly freely over the grasses in 

 the same favoui'ed spots. Most abundant near the coast, 

 though not usually frequenting the coast sandhills so much 

 as the grassy hollows and hill slopes. In such places plentiful 

 in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants with the Isle of Wight, 

 Dorset, Devon, Cornwall with the Scilly Isles ; Essex, Suffolk 

 and Norfolk. Beyond these counties I have no certain infor- 

 mation. Abroad it is found in many parts of Central and 

 Southern Europe, the south of Sweden and Norway. Livonia. 

 and Armenia. 



Genus -l. CRAMBUS. 



Antennje rather thick, flattened, minutely serrated but 

 appearing simple ; palpi thrice the lengtli of the head, 

 porrected, bristly, the maxillary pair triangularly scaled ; 

 face rounded uj) ; fore wings elongated, the tip usually 

 squarely angulated or even pointed ; hind wings ample, the 

 cell open, median and subdorsal nervures fringed on the 

 upper side. 



We have in all twenty-seven species, not all easy- to 

 tabulate. But this is an attempt. 

 A. Fore wings sharply angulated. the apex jH-oduced. 



('. cljtinclhis. 

 A-. Fore wings sharph" angulated, the apex shortly pointed. 

 r>. Fore wiugs with numerous rich dark-brown streaks. 



B-. Fore wiugs brown with a longitudinal white stripe and 



apical streaks. 

 C. Colour rather dull, stripe slender, forked, divided, apical 



streaks slender. C. pnifcllvfi. 



