I20 LEPIDOPTERA. 



smoothly lined with pale grey silk, .and externally covered 

 witli frass, or particles of moss, or both. 



This is perhaps the most universally abundant species of 

 the whole group, inhabiting — apparently — every yard of our 

 grass land, whether in meadows, pastures, road sides, or hills, 

 or even to the tops of the mountains. It is, when out, in 

 evidence every moment, the male constantly starting up at 

 one's feet to settle on another grass stalk at a short distance, 

 ready to tiy again, and again, as often as followed ; the 

 female — in the daytime — flying once, to another grass tuft, 

 but when again disturbed, plunging suddenly downward 

 into the thickest portion of the tuft, there to hide; but flying 

 freely in the dusk of the evening. After dark the male will 

 come in numbers to a strong light. I cannot hear of any 

 portion of the United Kingdom in which it is not abundant, 

 even to the Shetland Islands. Abroad it is found all over 

 the Continent of Europe, being plentiful even in Norway ; 

 also found throughout Asia Minor, Armenia, and Eastern 

 Siberia. 



27. C. hortuellus, />.— Expanse f to | inch (18-23 

 mm.). Fore wings pale brown or bronzy brown, nei^vures 

 darker, before the hind margin is an elbowed red-brown 

 transverse line ; cilia brilliantly glossy. Hind wings smoky 

 brown. 



Antenna? of the male simple, thickly ciliated, brown ; 

 palpi slender, strongly porrected, dark brown, the maxillary 

 pair visible as loose tufts of scales ; head and thorax glossy 

 dark brown ; abdomen dark grey-brown. Fore wings 

 elongated but rather broad ; costa nearly straight ; apex 

 squarely angulated ; bind margin almost perpendicular, 

 straight to near the anal angle ; colour pale umbreous or 

 yellow-brown, with a bronzy gloss ; between all the nervures, 

 and in the discal cell, finely marked with longitudinal bronzy 

 brown lines; toward the hind margin is a slender dark brown 

 transverse line, straight to above the middle, then sharply 



