CRA MBID.E— CRA ME US. 1 1 1 



Thurnall obtained young larvte from eggs, and they fed in 

 tufts of Aira cespitosa while young, making little upright 

 covers of gnawed grass stems, among the bottoms of the 

 tufts ; but they died in the winter. 



This species was confounded with the following until 

 about fifteen years ago, and many of the published records 

 actually refer to the latter. The pi-esent species seems to be 

 very local, and most frequently found upon the coast, yet 

 has long been known to occur at Blackheath in the outskirts 

 of London. Of its habits I have little or no personal know- 

 ledge. Besides the metropolitan locality just mentioned — 

 in the County of Kent — it is known to occur at Deal on the 

 coast of the same county, also in Sussex; near Shoebury- 

 ness, Essex ; Felixstowe and Lowestoft, Suffolk ; on the 

 Norfolk coast near Lynn ; and in Lancashire ; but probably 

 it has a more general range on our coasts. In Scotland 

 Dr. F. Buchanan White found it near Edinburgh, but I 

 know of no certain records for other parts of the United 

 Kingdom. Its range abroad is given as all Europe, except 

 the polar region ; also Bithynia and Syria, but it is by no 

 means clear that some of the records may not belong to the 

 next species. 



22. C. salinellus, Ttt. — Expanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 elongated, faintly retuse behind, brownish-drab or pale 

 brown, with a black longitudinal stripe meeting the first of 

 two slender brown transverse lines. Hind wings smoky 

 white. 



AntennaB of the male simple, thickly ciliated, brown ; palpi 

 long, pointed, brownish-drab; the maxillary pair triangular; 

 head and thorax also brownish-drab ; abdomen silky grey- 

 brown, not very slender. Fore wings elongated, blunt ; costa 

 slightly arched at the base and beyond the middle ; apex 

 squarely angulated ; hind margin retuse, then filled out and 

 even expanded, but curved off to the anal angle ; colour 

 pale yellow-brown, the middle area shaded broadly with 



