CRA MB/!). !■:— CRAMP. L 'S. 9 5 



The moth sits upon grasses during the daj- in its favourite 

 haunts, the boggy portions of heaths, and those portions of 

 " mosses " from which turfs have been cut, as well as in 

 damp grassy places in woods, and is readily disturbed on 

 still days and in the afternoon, flying to a short distance, to 

 settle again on a grass-blade. At sunset it begins its natural 

 flight, and this continues till dusk. Not known to occur in 

 the South of England. Haifa century ago it was plentiful 

 in Sutton Park, Warwickshire, and excessively abundant on 

 Chat Moss 'and other mosses of Lancashire and Cheshire ; 

 still to be found in these counties where its natural habitat 

 is not destroyed by cultivation, and also in the neighbour- 

 hood of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire ; common on mosses 

 in Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, and found in 

 Durham in 1874. In Wales Mr. Percy Kichards has found 

 it at Llanberis, and Mr. R. Newistead at Colwyn Baj- ; in 

 Scotland it occurs, sometimes abundantly, in Berwickshire, 

 Midlothian, Dumbartonshire, Argyleshire, Perthshire, Aber- 

 deenshire, Moray, Inverness, Ross, and in the Outer Hebrides; 

 in Ireland in Galway, Sligo, and Fermanagh. Abroad it 

 inhabits the Central and Northern portions of the Continent 

 of Europe, and Northern Italy. 



14. C. pinetellus, /,. pinellus, St/'ud. Caf. — Expanse 

 I to 1 inch. (21-2G mm.). Fore wings rather broad, rich 

 orange-red ; stripe very broad, pearly-white, sharply divided 

 just beyond the middle. Hind wings smoky white. 



Antennfe of the male simple, light brown ; palpi rather 

 slender, pointed, white above, brown beneath ; the maxillary 

 pair distinctly white ; head and middle of thorax snow-white, 

 sides of the latter dark ochreous ; abdomen pale leaden- 

 brown. Fore wings blunt, rather broad ; costa gently arched 

 beyond the middle ; apex squarely angulated ; hind margin 

 straight, hardly oblique, the anal angle well marked ; colour 

 rich orange-red, more' orange-yellow toward the dorsal 

 margin ; the longitudinal stripe narrow at the base, and 



