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pale colour, it was very conspicuous in tlie lantern-light. He 

 also took it once in the clay time, sitting on an old shed in 

 the same sandy district, but never saw it on the wing. 



Its principal locality, with us, is the extensive range of 

 coast sandhills at Deal, Kent, and here it seems rather par- 

 tial to the damper portions. It has also been taken in the 

 Isle of Wight, and within the last year or two in some nun-;- 

 barson coast sands near Felixstowe, Suffolk. So far as I am 

 aware, this is the extent of its range in these Islands, though 

 it may reasonably be expected to occur on other of our 

 Southern and Eastern coast sandhills. Abroad the records 

 seem quite uncertain. That in Staudiuger's List, "Central 

 Europe and Livonia," may refer to this species, or to andlus ; 

 and it is certainly the latter species which is found in Egypt 

 and South Africa. 



Genus i. CORCYRA. 



Antennfe simple, but having large tufts of scales at the 

 base ; palpi short and concealed by thick rough projecting 

 head-scales ; fore wings long-ovate ; subcostal nervure double, 

 thickened, and forming a horny cell beneath the base ; hind 

 wings moderately ample, devoid of the cross-bar and of 

 vein 5. Sexes similar except in size. 



We have but one species. 



1. C. cephalonica, Stn. — Expanse j to 1 inch. Head 

 rough, white ; fore wings elongate-ovate, whitish-grey or 

 brownish-grey ; costa and nervures dark grey ; hind wings 

 shining smoky white. 



Antenna of the male simple, slender, grey-white, with a 

 large white basal tuft of scales ; palpi very short, concealed 

 under a flat, spreading, projecting tuft of pure white head- 

 scales ; thorax rather round, grey-white ; abdomen pale 

 brown, slender. Fore wings long-ovate, ridged and hollowed 

 beneath in a remarkable manner, but on the upper side 

 smooth and even ; costa gently arched ; apex rounded ; hind 



