<)2 LEPIDOl'TERA. 



coarse grasses in the more open spots ; also frequenting sea- 

 sandhills, and the rough grasses which grow in sandy 

 districts inland. Easily disturbed in the afternoon and 

 ilying actively at dusk. Very local and not usually to be 

 Ibund in very considerable numljers even in its chosen 

 haunts ; bnt frequenting such suitable spots in Kent, Surrey, 

 Hants with the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall ; also 

 in Suffolk, Norfolk, and the coasts of Lincolnshire, Cheshire, 

 and Lancashire. In Scotland it is not rare on the coast 

 sands of Ayrshire and of Arran, and is found rarely in 

 i'erthshire. This appears to be the extent of its range in 

 these Islands. Abroad its distribution seems to be limited 

 to Holland, Western France, Northern Spain, and Livonia. 



12. C. furcateUus, Zitt. — Expanse { inch (21-23 mm.). 

 Eore wings bluntly pointed, dull dark yellow-brown ; longi- 

 tudinal stripe dull white, rather expanded and repeatedly 

 indented beyond the middle. Hind wings smoky brown. 



Antenna? of the male simple, black-brown ; palpi not very 

 long, depressed, chocolate-brown ; head and thorax of the 

 same colour ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wings bluntly 

 pointed, and not very long ; costa straight ; apex angulated, 

 but not sharply so; hind margin nearly straight and oblique; 

 colour dull chocolate-brown, slightly paler along the costal 

 edge ; longitudinal stripe slender, shining white, its lower 

 side rather expanded beyond the middle of the wing, and 

 there minutely but regularly indented, so as to form four 

 minute finger-like points ; no other markings ; cilia shining 

 pale grey-brown. Hind wings broad, apex bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin rounded ; dark smoky brown ; cilia a little 

 paler. Female variable, sometimes quite similar, often 

 smaller, and paler or darker in colour. 



Underside of the fore wings very pale smoky brown, 

 darker along the discal cell. Hind wings pale smoky grey. 

 Body grey-brown, legs pale brown. 



On the wing in July and August. 



