122 LEPIDOPTERA. 



This species, tliougli bai'dly so abuudaut as tlie last, is yet 

 to be found, aud usually in plenty, among grass everywhere. 

 It has even been seen flying in dozens around an electric- 

 light at night, in the middle of London. It flies like other 

 species the moment that it is disturbed, in the daytime, 

 settling again, and turning head downwards, on any grass- 

 stem ; and in the early summer is rather an intrusive 

 nuisance, since from its dark colour and its various manners 

 of flight it is often to be mistaken for some more desirable 

 species. Common throughout England, Wales, and Ireland, 

 though perhaps less so in Cornwall ; local in the West of 

 Scotland, aud more so in Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, and the 

 North, yet not uncommon in the Shetland Islands. In the 

 Orkneys and Outer Hebrides it may have been overlooked, 

 but I find, for them, no records. Abroad it has an extensive 

 range, through Central and Northern Europe, the north of 

 Spain, South-east llussia, Armenia, Eastern Siberia; and in 

 North America in Maine, Massachusetts, New York State, 

 and California. 



Genus 1. CALAMOTROPHA. 



Antennaj simple, not long, downy at the base; labial 

 palpi thrice the length of the head, sharply pointed, por- 

 rected ; maxillary palpi short, loosely tufted ; face rather 

 roughened with twisted scales ; fore wings elongated, 

 broadly oblong, squared behind ; hind wings ample, the 

 cell open ; median and subdorsal nervures fringed on their 

 upper side. 



We have only one species. 



1. C. paludella, Huh. — Expanse 1 to ly inch. Fore 

 wings elongated, broadly oblong, squared behind ; shining 

 brownish-white or pale drab with an oblique dotted black- 

 brown transverse line beyond the middle, and faint grey- 

 brown lines on the nervures. Hind wings shining, pure 

 white. 



