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iner.t broadly banded with darker grey, which melts into the 

 pale ground colour near the spiracles ; segmental folds 

 whitish ; a slight indication of a grey dorsal line appears on 

 the middle of each segment from the fifth to the twelfth : 

 raised dots blackish-brown and most conspicuous, those on 

 the third and fourth segments paler than the rest ; anal 

 plate small, brown ; legs and prolegs pale grey ; the last 

 tipped with brown. (W. Buckler — condensed.) 



August till ^lay or June on Ti-iticum juncenin, Aim 

 mnescens, and other sand-loving grasses, feeding on the root 

 stems, living in a large loose-looking tube of silk and sand 

 beneath the surface and attached to the grass roots, one 

 large portion forming a sort of bag which is stuffed with the 

 frass of gnawed particles of grass. 



Pt'PA half an inch long, very pale shining brown, rather 

 slender, the wing covers long in proportion to its size. In a 

 tough cocoon of silk covered with sand, three times as long 

 as the pupa, attached to the tube in which the larva lived but 

 placed perpendicularly to it, under the surface of the sand. 



An exceedingly sluggish species, attached here to coast 

 sandhills only, and having the curious habit of sitting on 

 the sand during the day, either in any small hollow such as 

 a foot-mark, or on the sheltered side of a tuft of grass, such 

 &ii A ira cani'swns, "^ith. its head pushed between the small 

 grass-blades. Here it may usually be boxed without the 

 smallest difficulty, seeing that only an occasional specimen 

 will attempt to fly, and the best position to take for securing 

 it is upon one's knees, since its colour and markings greatly 

 resemble the sand, and thereby protect it from the eye. 

 Unfortunately every specimen becomes very much faded in 

 a few hours — probably from the rays of the sun shining 

 directly upon it, and it then looks like a bit of grass-sheath. 

 It flies at dark, but apparently very little and only closely 

 over the same sandy spots. 



Most frequent with us upon the sandhills of the Norfolk 



