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deuni )iui i-'dimnm, Spartina stricta, &c. ; Gartner — Fesluca 

 ovina. 



Pupa apparently undescribed. 



This species frequents marshes either in meadows or in 

 woods, or even at the edges of salt marshes on the sea-shore, 

 sometimes satisfying itself with a wet hollow only a few 

 yards in extent. It sits rather closely down among the 

 grass, but will i3y for a short distance if trodden up in the 

 afternoon, yet is scarcely so active as some of its allies. Its 

 natural flight is after sunset, and it will come to a light at 

 night. Rather local, but to be found in suitable spots in all 

 the Southern Counties of England to Berks and Herts ; in 

 the Eastern to Lincolnshire ; and in the Western even to 

 Lancashire ; yet apparently not existing at all in the Mid- 

 lands, and northward only in Yorkshire and at Monk 

 Hezleden, Durham. In Wales I found it in Pembrokeshire, 

 and have little doubt that it only requires looking for else- 

 where. In Ireland it occurs in Cork, Sligo, Armagh, Tyrone, 

 and Antrim ; but apparently nowhere in vScotland. Abroad 

 its range is through Central Europe, the temperate portions 

 of Northern Europe, North Italy, South-East Russia, and 

 Tartary. 



18. C. tristellus, Fah. — Expanse 1 to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings elongated, rather pointed at the tip ; pale brown, 

 brownish-ochreous, or dull yellow-brown; stripe when visible 

 pale yellow or white, very narrow, from the middle of the 

 wing spread on to the nervures. Hind wings smoky brown. 



Antennaj of the male simple, pale brown, faintly barred 

 with white ; palpi slender, pointed, yellow-brown dusted 

 with dark brown ; head and thorax yellow-brown or brown ; 

 abdomen whitish-brown. Fore wings not very narrow ; 

 costa gently arched ; apex rather acutely angulated ; hind 

 margin oblique, almost straight ; colour usually yellow-brown 

 or brownish-ochreous ; the longitudinal stripe narrow, nearly 



