CRAMBID.-E—CHILO. izy 



assimilating most accurately witli tliose of the sheaths and 

 dried leaves. The male flies freely in the later dusk, and at 

 night, and comes willingly to a strong light. The female 

 has a curious habit, occasionally, of flying about sunset, 

 when it is very conspicuous ; but certainly its main flight is 

 late at night. Its home is in the fens, but it also frequents 

 the banks of rivers where reeds grow abundantly, and almost 

 any very wet situations in which this is the case, in Norfolk, 

 Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex, Kent. Sussex, Hants, Berks, 

 Herts, and Hunts, and occurs very locally in Cheshire, 

 Lancashire, Durham, and Yorkshire. Formerly it was found 

 in Hammersmith marshes in the London suburbs, but these 

 marshes have long disappeared. No records seem to exist 

 for other portions of these Islands. Abroad it inhabits 

 Central Euroj^e, South Sweden, Western Eussia, and the 

 Trans-Caspian region. 



[C. eicatriceUus, Hub. — A species of about the same 

 size as the last, with broad, retuse, light brown or dark 

 brown fore wings, having a broad white or yellowish-white 

 stripe along the costa ; and the hind wings white. 



Its larva, which is dirty white, with yellow head and dorsal 

 plate, and an interrupted blood-red dorsal stripe ; feeds in 

 the lower shoots of Scirpiis lacustris, 



A single specimen of this fine species was exhibited as 

 British at the meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 London in September 1852, by the late Mr. Edwin Shepherd. 

 It was stated to have been taken '' flying near Dover " and 

 on the same authority was recorded in the Entomologist's 

 Ainiual for 1855 and in Stawton's Manual. Moreover, the 

 specimen is still in existence, a female in fine condition, 

 in the collection of Dr. P. B. Mason at Burton-on-Trent. 

 But, taking into consideration that no verification by the 

 actual raptor seems ever to have been given, nor even is there 

 any knowledge as to who the captor was, nor his reliability, 

 nor of the actual specific place of capture ; and also that no 



