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in Pembrokeshire. I kuow of no other records in these 

 Islands. Abroad it is comnion in Central and South-East 

 Europe, the north of Spain, Livonia, Armenia, and Asia, 

 Minor. 



5. E. ambiguella, Huh. ; ambiguana, Wilh. — Expanse 

 \ inch (12 mm.). Fore wings rich creamy-yellow with a 

 broad black transverse band. 



Antennee light brown ; palpi and head yellowish-white ; 

 thorax rich yellow, abdomen reddish-brown. Fore wings 

 rather narrow but with the hinder area expanded, and the 

 apex rounded ; costa nearly straight; yellow, clouded with 

 richer cream-yellow, and having a black central band, which 

 is very conspicuous, broad on the costa, narrow on the dorsal 

 margin, edged on both sides with whitish-j-ellow ; cilia 

 creamy-yellow. Hind wings and their cilia smoky white. 

 Female similar with rather darker hind wings. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky brown, hind margin 

 yellow. Hind wings smoky white with faint cross stippling 

 on the nervures. 



On the wing at the end of May and in June, in a single 

 generation. 



Larva plump, sluggish, thickest iu the middle ; dirt\- 

 pale brownish-yellow, dorsal vessel hardly perceptible ; 

 raised dots large, shining, and prominent, slightly darker 

 than the body but apparently without hairs; head and 

 dorsal plate shining jet black ; anal plate light brown ; legs 

 black ; prolegs pale. 



July and August ; on the berries of Ehammis frmigula 

 (berry-bearing alder), eating out the pulp of the berries, and 

 also the interior portions of the hard seeds. When a berry 

 is exhausted joining it by means of a silken tube to another, 

 and when that is consumed to a third, but sometimes con- 

 tinuing to reside in the original berry. When full-grown 

 leaving this habitation and descending to the ground, where 

 it cuts a portion out of a dead leaf of oak, bracken, or 



