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liabita are scarceh- known. It lias been talcen about old 

 fruit trees; and abroad Dr. Kossler says that it frequents fii- 

 woods. It was first recognised here in the year 1S72, when 

 a specimen was captured at Folkestone, Kent, bj- I\Ir. Chas. 

 A. Briggs. Two or three more have been taken in subse- 

 quent years in the same locality; and ]\Ir. A. F. (Griffiths has 

 obtained four among fruit trees at Cambridge. One taken 

 in a garden at Bognor, Sussex, in 18UU. completes the record 

 of captures within my knowledge in these islands. Abroad it 

 does not seem to be anywhere common ; but is found in 

 some portions of Central Europe, also in Sweden, Finland, 

 Dalmatia, and Bithj'nia. 



■i. C. pratellus, L. — Expanse 'l to | inch (18-23 mm.). 

 Fore wings rather blunt, yellow-brown or umbreous ; the 

 white stripe shortly forked, very narrow, followed by a white 

 wedge, then by a bent transverse line and a white apical 

 dot ; hind wings smoky-ljrown. Female pearly white, with 

 the markings slightly outlined. 



Antenna' of the male simple, dull brown ; palpi slender, 

 porrected, pointed, brown, the maxillary pair very short and 

 triangular ; head and the slender thorax and abdomen dull 

 brown ; fore wings narrow, not very long ; costa gently 

 arched; apex shortly pointed; hind margin just below it 

 faintly indented, then filled out and rounded off ; colour pale 

 yellow-brown, with darker nervures ; longitudinal pearly 

 white stripe narrow, but shortly forked beyond the middle 

 and then pointed ; just beyond it is a similar short wedge- 

 shaped streak or spot ; close beyond this is an elbowed trans- 

 verse line, white edged with black-brown; before this, from the 

 ccsta, are usually two sharply pointed white streaks and a white 

 shade running along the costa toward the base, but these are 

 not always visible ; just within the apex of the wing is a 

 triangular white spot, and below it a row of marginal black- 

 dots ; cilia white, shading ott' to brown, and shot with a bright 

 golden gloss. Hind wings ample, rounded behind ; smoky 



