loS LEPIDOPTERA. 



coast — near (Jreat Yarmoutli, Hunstautou, and elsewhere ; 

 occurring also on the coasts of Suffolk and Essex, but not, 

 apparently, anywhere else in the United Kingdom. Abroad, 

 though frequenting sandy districts, it does not seem to be 

 restricted to the coast, but is found in suitable places 

 throughout Central Europe, Southern and Western France, 

 South Sweden, Livonia, South-west Russia, Pontus, and 

 Northern Africa. 



20. C. inquinatellus, Miiff. — Expanse \ to 1 inch 

 (21-24 mm.). Fore wings glossy umbreous or pale brown ; 

 stripe ill-defined, pale ochreous, crossed by two oblique dark 

 brown lines or stripes. Hind wings dusky white. 



Antennte of the male slender, simple, ciliated, light 

 brown ; palpi thin, dull brown, the maxillary pair small, 

 whitish-brown; head and thorax pale drab ; abdomen silky 

 brownish-drab. Fore wings elongated, rather blunt ; costa 

 very slightly arched ; apex squarely angulated ; dorsal 

 margin gently rounded ; colour shining yellowish-drab or 

 yellow-white, more or less dusted and streaked between the 

 nervures with dark umbreous ; at the lower angle of the 

 discal cell is a black or black-brown wedge-shaped streak 

 pointing inward ; often this is connected with an obscure, 

 oblique, transverse cloudy brown line ; beyond it is another, 

 more oblique, black, cloudy streak often extending into a 

 second line of dark brown crossing the pale nervures ; both 

 lines cross the longitudinal stripe, which is of the pale 

 ground colour and defined by the stripes of umbreous 

 clouding ; cilia very glossy, pale brown. Hind wings broad, 

 rounded behind, silky pale smoke-colour or smoky white ; 

 cilia whiter and glossy. Female similar in markings and 

 ground colour, but often paler from absence of the 

 umbreous clouding. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale smoky brown, 

 with yellowish streaks along the costa and nervures. Hind 

 wings smoky white. Body and legs shining grey-brown. 



