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Grcpis tci-tornm^ Hicracium murormn, H. umhrl latum, ISolidaf/o 

 rirgaurea, IScnaio jacoho'.n, and other composite plauts, in the 

 seed heads, eating out the green seeds. 



Pupa light yellow-browu, spun up in any convenient 

 corner. In confinement spinning freel}' in crushed blotting- 

 pa])er. 



This pretty species is always somewhat local, yet in 

 favoured spots sometimes abundant: it loves to hide during 

 the day in rough coarse herbage such as among thistles, is 

 particularly attached to railvvaj-banks, and may often be 

 seen buzzing about them close to suburban railway stations 

 in the outskirts of London. Probably sometimes in all our 

 southern counties, but recorded only from Kent, Sussex, 

 Surrey, Somerset, Cornwall ; also Gloucestershire, Oxford- 

 shire, Middlesex, Herts, Essex, Cam bs, Norfolk (abundant^, 

 Staffordshire, Yorkshire, and Westmoreland ; but I have no 

 record in Wales, and in Ireland only in Antrim ; in Scotland 

 it is found in the Edinburgh distrint, fretjuents the banks of 

 the Paisiey canal, and is iound in l^erthshire. Abroad it 

 ranges through Northern and Central Europe, Spain, Pied- 

 mont, South-Ea&t Russia, the Caucasus ; and in North 

 America, Nova Scotia. 



4. E. hybridella. Hub. ; carduaua, Zell., Hcin. — Ex- 

 panse i to f inch (12-lG mm.). Head white ; fore wings 

 white, marbled with tawny-brown and flushed with pink. 



Antennee pale brown ; palpi yellow-brown ; head and 

 thorax white ; abdomen pale brown ; legs white. Fore 

 wings bright white with faint pink and tawny cloudings 

 and minute costal dots ; central band represented by nearly 

 erect orange-brown blotch on the dorsal margin, which is 

 edged with black dusting ; opposite to it is a small smoky- 

 black spot on the costa ; before the apex are two or three 

 black dots enveloped in pink and pale brown shading ; cilia 

 light brown mixed with white. Hind wings smoky white. 



