86 LEPIDOPTERA. 



which the young larva hatched, and were then wliite with 

 the head red ; but they seem to have refused food of any 

 kind. 



This species inliabits marshes, boggy meadows, and the 

 wider open stretches of fen covered with coarse grass- 

 sedges, and rank herbage ; and is not very readily induced 

 to fly in the day time. After sunset, however, it becomes 

 lively, and ma}- be captured in numbers in its few localities. 

 These are in the fens of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, the 

 bogs of the New Forest and Wolmer Forest, Hants, in 

 Dorset, Essex, and Cumberland. "With the exception of 

 a statement that it was found at Killarney. Ireland, by the 

 late Peter Bouchard, I find no other records in the United 

 Kingdom. Abroad it inhabits Central Europe, Northern 

 Europe, and the North of Italy. 



8. C. hamellus, Thiuih. — Expanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 broad behind, but elongated ; golden brown, the longitudinal 

 pearly white stripe sharply branched, beneath, just beyond 

 the middle. Hind wings smoky white. 



Antennje of the male simple, brown ; palpi long, slender, 

 bronzy-brown ; head and middle of the thorax dull bro^'U ; 

 shoulder lappets more golden - brown : abdomen silky 

 brownish-white. Fore wings elongated, not narrow ; costa 

 almost straight ; apex sharply angulated and very little 

 produced ; hind margin refuse, then straight and slightly 

 oblique ; soft smooth golden-brown ; the longitudinal stripe 

 pearly white, extending more than three-fourths the length 

 of the wings and pointed at the end, sharply forked on its 

 under side, but undivided ; from it beyond the fork spring 

 two or three cloudy brown streaks ; beyond this is a single, 

 elbowed, brown transverse line, obscurely edged with white 

 toward the costa, and followed in the hind marginal area by 

 a series of slender white streaks, and clouds which enclose a 

 rich golden-brown triangle before the apex ; extreme hind 

 margin dotted with black : cilia pale bronzy-brown. Hind 



