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grains of eartli — hybernating in these tubes when nearly 

 full grown. 



Pupa three-eighths of an inch long ; glossy, fairly plump, 

 and with all the organs well defined ; bright yellow-brown : 

 the abdominal divisions darker brown, and the eye-cases and 

 anal point nearly black. In a firm silken cocoon among the 

 roots of the grass or against some neighbouring object, but 

 just below the surface of the soil. (G. T. P.) 



The moth sits in the daytime, like the rest of the genus, 

 with wings closely clasped round it, head down, upon grasses: 

 but is at all times alert, flying uji on the least disturbance, 

 to settle again at a short distance, on another grass-stem, and 

 always with head straight downwards — a position which 

 moths of this group will assume even when sitting upon the 

 smooth glass of a gas-lamp. It flies at dusk and at night, 

 but keeps generally pretty close to the grass. One of the 

 most abundant of our species, and to be found everywhere- — 

 in fields, lanes, roadsides, woods, hills and valleys, moun- 

 tains, marshes and fens — wherever grass grows, but not 

 greatly liking the harder harsher grasses of sea-sandhills. 

 Everywhere abundant throughout the British Isles, including 

 the Shetlands. Abroad common in all parts of Central and 

 Northern Europe, and found in the north of Italy, Portugal, 

 Dalmatia, Armenia, and Siberia. 



5. C. dumetellus, Huh. — Expanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 elongated, rather pointed, rich golden brown, with a pearly 

 white stripe along the costa, and another, longer, forked and 

 divided, along the disk, followed by the elbowed line and an 

 apical white triangle. Hind wings pale smoky-brown. 



Antennas of the male simjsle, dark brown with, on the 

 upper side, a pale brown line ; palpi long and slender, faintly 

 depressed, pale golden-brown ; head drab ; thorax yellow- 

 brown ; abdomen slender, whitish-brown. Fore wings 

 elongated, pointed ; costa nearly' straight ; apex sharply 



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