112 LEPIDOPTERA. 



oclireous ; from the base, lying under the median nervure, 

 is a black dusted line or narrow stripe which joins an oblique 

 slender brown transverse line, curved back almost into a 

 loop ; beyond this is a slender angulated brown transverse 

 line, clouded and thickened below the middle ; extreme hind 

 margin dotted with black ; cilia shining whitish-di-ab. Hind 

 wings ample, the apex rather produced ; rounded behind ; 

 smoky white ; the cilia white. Female very similar, but 

 having a larger, stouter body. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale drab, much 

 clouded with smoky colouring in the middle. Hind wings 

 smoky white. Body and legs pale brown. 



Rather variable in the distinctness of the black longi- 

 tudinal line, and when this is darkest, in the presence of 

 supplementary black dashes, especially on the middle trans- 

 verse line, which is in some specimens composed of such 

 short dashes. 



On the wing in June, July, and August. 



Larva three-fourths of an inch long, moderately slender, 

 segments well defined, and sub-divided by a transverse 

 wrinkle ; head rounded, greyish-brown marked with blackish- 

 brown ; dorsal plate similar, both shining; body pale dull 

 earthy-grey with a rather darker dorsal line ; raised dots 

 glossy light brown ; each having within it a black dot 

 bearing a fine hair ; anal plate shining brown with a few 

 darker dots, prolegs tipped with brown hooks. ( W. Buckler 

 — condensed.) 



May and June — probably from the previous autumn — on 

 Foa maritivia,P. Borrcri,Lcpturusfiliformis, and other grasses- 

 which grow at the margins, and on the drier portions, of sea 

 salt marshes, residing in a tubular gallery, covered with 

 frass, upon the ground, or sometimes under a stone. 



Plta of ordinary form, but the wing-covers rather long, 

 and the abdomen tapers to u rather blunt, rounded-off tip : 

 glossy warm brown, the abdominal tip blackish-brown. In 



