CRAMBWjE—CRAMBUS. 83 



the thirteenth segment joined into one transverse spot; each 

 tlot with a dark hair ; dorsal line slender, ilesh-colour. 

 When younger light salmon-colour banded across each seg- 

 ment with pink ; the head and dorsal plate dark chestnut 

 brown. (W. Buckler — condensed.) 



July to ilay on the roots and root-stems of grasses 

 growing in dry pastures. Inhabiting a cylindrical gallery of 

 silk, very smooth and white within, and covered on the out- 

 side, with dried particles of grass and frass. (V(. B.) 



Pupa undescribed ; in a cocoon less than three-eighths of 

 an inch in length, oval, of brownish-grey silk, formed at the 

 end of the larval gallery. (W. B.) 



This moth is especially attached to dry hill-sides, and dry 

 slopes at the edges of woods, also to the drier, more settled, 

 sandy hills at the coast ; evidently loving sunny spots ; 

 hiding during the day among the short grass, but Hying up 

 and away rather swiftly if distui-bed. Very local with us, 

 but widely distributed, and to be found in suitable spots in 

 Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Cornwall, Somerset, 

 Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Cheshire, Lancashire and 

 Yorkshire. In Wales I found it on the coast near Pembroke. 

 In Scotland it is recorded from Fife, Perthshire, Aberdeen- 

 shire, Moray, and Inverness ; and in Ireland in Tyi'one and 

 Sligo. Abroad it has a wide range over Central and North- 

 ern Europe, Italy, Dalmatia, Southern and Eastern Russia ; 

 and in North America in Texas and Colorado, and the slopes 

 of the Rocky Mountains. 



(). C. ericellus, Hi'ih. — -Expanse § to 1 inch. Fore wings 

 elongated, glistening, brown, darkest at the costa and on the 

 nervures ; median stripe narrow, even, silvery-white followed 

 by a similar spot, also a bent dark line and white apical 

 spot ; dorsal margin narrowly white. Hind wings smoky 

 pale brown. 



