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This species is, with us, found only on chalk downs, and 

 other chalky localities. It sits among the grass during the 

 day, and may be disturbed and induced to fly in the after- 

 noon ; its natural time of flight being, like that of other 

 species, at dusk. A very local species, but found in places 

 such as are above indicated in Kent, Sussex, the Isle of 

 Wight, Dorset, Wilts, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Herts, 

 Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Norfolk ; also 

 recorded from near Bodmin, Cornwall ; but I find no records 

 from any other portions of the United Kingdom. Abroad it 

 is found throughout Central Europe, also in Italy, Dalmatia, 

 Turkey, the Crimea, Bithynia, Armenia, Mongolia, and the 

 mountainous regions of Central Asia. 



25. C. craterellus, Scop. ; rorellus, L. ; cassenti- 



niellus, Zdl. — Expanse f to 1 inch (19-25 mm.). Fore 

 wings broad and blunt, yellowish -white, with golden-brown 

 stripes between the nervures, which are crossed by two erect 

 golden-brown lines ; cilia brilliantly golden. Hind wings 

 smoky brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, bronzy-brown ; palpi un- 

 usually long, rather bent, red-brown ; head and thorax pale 

 yellow-brown, with a bronzy sheen ; abdomen greyish-drab. 

 Fore wings not very long, even in width, not narrow : costa 

 very faintly arched ; apex bluntly squared ; hind margin 

 perpendicular and nearly straight ; anal angle almost 

 squared ; colour creamy-white, or yellowish-white, with a 

 silky gloss ; all the nervures, and also the discal cell, longi- 

 tudinally, and distinctly, striped throughout with bright 

 bronzy-brown or golden-j^ellow ; in the middle is an erect, 

 slightly bent, golden-brown transverse line, and at two-thirds 

 the distance to the hind margin another; cilia pale brown, 

 with a brilliant golden gloss. Hind wings broad, rounded 

 behind ; smoky brown ; cilia whiter. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky yellow, with a blacker 

 cloud on the costa beytDnd the middle, and the hind margin 



