CRAMniD.'E— CRAM BUS. loi 



touching the ground, fabricated of grey silk covered with 

 particles of moss, frass, and grains of earth. Mr. Porritt 

 says that throughout it feeds and lives in pi'ecisely the same 

 manner as does that of ('. JVarruii/to/ic/li's, that the larvae 

 closely agree, and that the rearing of the present form con- 

 firms the opinion which he has long held that the latter is 

 nothing more than a variety of the present species. 



Pl'PA of ordinary shape, with rather long wing-covers and 

 leg and antenna-cases ; abdomen tapering and ending in a 

 short truncate cremaster ; spiracles rather prominent ; colour 

 shining pale yellowish-brown, changing to darii brown. In 

 an oval cocoon of materials similar to those of the larval 

 gallery, but more tough, and sunk partly into the ground. 



The moth sits bj' day on the stems of coarse rank grasses 

 bj' preference, but on grasses generally, head downwards as 

 usual, and is sufficiently active, flying vigorously about 

 among the grasses if disturbed, but soon settling again. At 

 night it flies freely and will come to light, sitting quietly on 

 the gas lamps in public roads. It especially loves rough 

 places where the coarser grasses abound, but also frequents 

 damp meadows and pasture fields, marshes, mosses, and hill- 

 sides, in its various forms — separate or mixed — throughout 

 the United Kingdom, even to the Shetland Isles. Abroad 

 it is distributed all over the Continent of Europe, Central 

 and Western Asia, Siberia, Mongolia, Cashmir ; and in 

 North America from Labrador throughout Nova Scotia, 

 New Brunswick, Upper and Lower Canada, Maine, New 

 Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Illinois, and 

 California. 



17. C. selasellus,//('6.— Expanse I to 1 inch(21-2.jmm.j. 

 Fore wings rather broadened, soft pale ochreous-brown; longi- 

 tudinal stripe narrow, straight, glossy white, broken up 

 by the nervures toward the end, and sharj^ly edged above 

 with black-brown. Hind wings pale smoky brown. 



