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AntennaB of the male simple, yellow-brown ; palpi, head, 

 and thorax brownish-ochreous ; abdomen dusky yellow- 

 white. Fore wings elongate, without fold, but the costa 

 faintly arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; glossy, smooth 

 ochreous, or brownish-ochreous without markings ; cilia 

 paler. Female larger in expanse of wings and stouter, and 

 having yellow-brow a markings; the outer edge of a large 

 basal blotch sharply augulated; a very oblique central band 

 with step-like notches on its inner side, and a cloudy streak 

 pointing inwards from the apex of the wing. Hind wings 

 shining smoky-white with white cilia. 



Underside of fore wings leaden-brown, with ochreous 

 margins. Hind wings yellowish-white. 



The male varies somewhat in the shade of colour of its 

 fore wings ; the female still more in the degree of darkness 

 of its markings. Very rarely a specimen of the latter sex- 

 has been found of a grey colour like the allied SciapMlce. 



On the wing in June, July, and August. 



Lakva moderately long aud slender, slightly attenuated at 

 each end ; pale yellowish-green with broad longitudinal 

 dorsal and sub-dorsal greenish-grey lines ; spiracles black ; 

 head pale brown with a black spot on either side ; dorsal 

 and anal plates pale brown. 



End of May and June, in the blossoms of Hypochai-is 

 radicata and Chrysnnthtmnm leucanthcmum especially, but 

 polyphagus and found in those of Anthemis arvensis, Aster 

 tripolium, Scnccio, Lychnis, Ranunculus, and Staticc; drawing 

 together florets, anthers, or petals, and feeding within. 



Pupa light brown, spun up in any hiding-place or among 

 leaves. It has been known to insinuate itself into dry cap- 

 sules of Saxifraga to spin up, and the Rev. C. T. Cruttwell 

 secured a si^ecimen which had for this purpose contrived to 

 enter an empty case of Talceporia pseitdo-homhyceUn. 



The moth sits during the day among grass and herbage, 



