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colour or light brown ; spiracles small, rouud, and black. 

 When younger pinkish-grey or reddish-grey, with the under- 

 surface a little paler, the dorsal plate dingy brown, faintly 

 divided by a grey line. (W. Buckler — condensed.) 



October till June on grasses — Mr. Buckler fed his larva^ 

 upon Aim jlcxuo&a, but there is no reason to suppose that 

 this is the exclusive, or even a favoured, food plant — 

 inhabiting silken galleries covered with frass, at the bases 

 of the grass steins, in the tufts ; these galleries are placed in 

 a vertical position, the lower end over half an inch above the 

 earth, made of strong grey silk, and very smooth within. 



Pupa nearly half an inch in length, rather slender, with 

 long wing-covers ; smooth and shining ; of a light brown 

 colour. (W. B.) In a silken cocoon in light soil among the 

 upper parts of the grass roots. 



This species is almost everywhere abundant, in town and 

 country, among grass, sitting on the grass stems, flying 

 sharply off when disturbed, with a quick darting motion, 

 often from side to side, looking rather large, and deceptive 

 as to its species, as it flies, but settling instantly and turning 

 with head down in the unmistakable fashion of a Cramhus. 

 At night it will come eagerly to a strong light. The female 

 is far from being equally lively, and is even comparatively 

 seldom seen, darting down to hide among the grass close to 

 the ground, while the males are abundantly in evidence all 

 about every field and wayside. Plentiful — often far too 

 much so — throughout the United Kingdom, except that it 

 seems to be absent from the Shetland Isles and the Outer 

 Hebrides. Abroad it is common all over the Continent of 

 Europe except the Arctic portion, and is found in Armenia 

 and Siberia. 



19. C. fascelinellus. Huh. — Expanse 1 inch. Fore 

 wings rather broad behind ; brownish drab, with paler 

 nervures and with two, or even three, curved transverse lines 



