CRA MBIDJE— CRA MB US. 1 1 3 



an oval cocoon smoothly lined with brownish-grey silk and 

 externally coated with fine earth and frass. (W. B.) 



This species appears to be quite confined to the coast, and 

 nearly so to salt marshes and their drier margins and sur- 

 roundings. So far as I know it is not especially fond of 

 sitting upon grass, but will hide itself in any sheltered nook 

 or under a bank. It flies naturally at about sunset, and is 

 then readily captured. It has been long known under the 

 name which now appears to belong rather to the last species, 

 and all the older records — including that of its larva — are 

 under that name. It certainly occurs on the coasts of Kent, 

 Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cheshire and 

 Lancashire, and rarely in Gloucestershire. In Wales it is 

 rare, but I once took it on the margin of Milford Haven, in 

 Pembrokeshire. Except that it is said to have been found 

 commonly on Musselburgh race-course near Edinburgh, I find 

 no other reliable records in these Islands ; and abroad it is so 

 greatly mixed with C. contaminellus that the only record to be 

 depended upon seems to be one in Germany. 



23. C. geniculeus, Haiu. — Expanse I inch (20-22 mm._). 

 Fore wings shining pale bi'own or yellow-brown, with two 

 much angulated slender dark brown transverse lines, both of 

 which cross a whitish discal shade ; cilia brilliantly glossy. 

 Hind wings smoky white. 



Antennas of the male simple, ciliated, brown ; palpi drab, 

 dusted outside with brown, the maxillary pair pointed ; 

 head pale drab ; thorax brownish-drab ; abdomen silky 

 brownish-white. Fore wings moderately elongated, slightly 

 produced at the tip ; costa gently arched ; apex rather 

 sharply angulated; hind margin oblique and nearly straight ; 

 colour yellow-drab, or yellow-brown, much dusted with 

 darker brown except in the middle area, along which is an 

 interrupted stripe of the clear ground colour; this last is broken 

 in the middle by a black wedge, which is part of a ti-ansverse 

 brown line, deeply angulated between this and the costa, but 



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