CRAMBID^—CRA MBVS. 1 1 9 



shorter than in the other species ; costa very ilatly arched ; 

 apex angulated ; hind margin straight and rather oblique ; 

 colour creamy-white or pale yellow-drab, strongl}- tinged 

 with yellow-brown or smoky brown in the costal area ; the 

 nervures in the remaining portion often dusted or streaked 

 with the same darker shade ; no other markings ; cilia pale 

 brown with a brilliant golden gloss. Hind wings rather 

 short but broad, rounded behind ; smoky white ; cilia whiter. 

 Female a little smaller, but the body stouter, and the fore 

 wings more pointed. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky drab, more yellow 

 toward the apex. Hind wings smoky white. Body pale 

 brown ; legs whitish-drab. 



On the wing in July and August. 



LARVAhalf an inch long, moderately stout ; head cinnamon- 

 brown, mouth darker brown, and each lobe on the crown 

 margined with a short black-brown streak ; plates and raised 

 dots cinnamon-brown, shining ; boiy light flesh-colour ; 

 spiracles minute, round, and black ; the dorsal plate has a 

 few minute black-brown dots and a larger pair on the hind 

 margin ; each of the raised dots bears two smaller dark 

 brown dots, each furnished with a fine hair. (W. Buclclei' — 

 condensed.) 



September till June, on Frdiica oviiia and other grasses, 

 inhabiting a small upright silken gallery, connected with 

 other such galleries among the stems of the grasses close to 

 the ground. 



Pupa rather plump ; head and thorax moderately produced ; 

 the former tapering very slightly towards the widest part of 

 the body at the ends of the long wing-covers ; thence the 

 abdomen tapers a little more ; tip rounded off and ending 

 with a rather prominent boss ; colour shining light brown, 

 the lower part of the wing-covers paler, brownish-yellow ; 

 the terminal boss dark bnrvn. In a cocoon of oval shape, 



