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stating tliat he had captured them while flying over mixed 

 herbage and grass. From his decease in the following year 

 all hope of information on this point seems to have dis- 

 appeared, and so far as I know no more specimens have been 

 found here ; but there is, I think, no suspicion of the 

 genuineness of the large number obtained by him, and now 

 scattered into many collections. Abroad it is an inhabitant 

 of Southern France, Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, South 

 Sweden, and Livonia. 



9. E. notulana, Zill. — Expanse § to i inch. (0-12 

 mm.). Head snow-white ; fore wings white with a broad 

 brown central band, faintly curved. 



Antennae pale brown ; palpi and head snow-white ; thorax 

 brownish-white ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wings short, 

 rather broad behind ; costa arched ; apex squared ; white, 

 faintly dusted with olive-brown ; central band broad, irre- 

 gular, ill-defined, slightly oblique and curved, dark brown ; 

 beyond it are some pale olive-brown clouds, the largest of 

 which unites with a pale olive-brown stripe across the 

 apical area ; cilia dusky white. Hind wings and their 

 cilia brownish-white. Female similar, rather larger 



Underside of the fore wings shining brown ; costa dotted 

 with white. Hind wings smoky white. 



There is variation in the colour of the central baud, which 

 sometimes is of a very rich velvety brown, while in other 

 specimens its dark colouring is almost obliterated, or partially 

 so, leaving dark spots or a partial band. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva smooth, stout, nearly cylindrical, but with the 

 segments slightly swollen in front ; inactive, naked, pale 

 yellowish-green, greener when young ; dorsal vessel visibly 

 brownish ; raised dots indistinct, grey ; head and the divided 

 dorsal plate shining black ; anal segment and plate pale 

 brown. 



September and October ; in stems of Mentlia hirsuta and 



