294 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Liicoppscurojxxns, entering at a joint and eating out the pitli, 

 working upwards and leaving the lower portion of the burrow 

 tightly i^acked with excrement. Hibernating within the 

 stem and generally spining up therein, but occasionally 

 deserting it. Mr. H. Doubleday reared a number of speci- 

 mens from stems of Inula (Ji/scntcrica, yet it ordinarily seems 

 to neglect this plant. Sorhagen instances additional food- 

 plants — Mentha si/lvcstri.% M. aquatica, M. palustris. 



PfPA delicate light brown, not glossy, segments faintly 

 double-ridged with minute bristles ; cremaster short and 

 blunt and rounded oft, furnished with three minute points. 

 In a slight, silk-lined cocoon among the solid frass in the 

 stem. 



A verj- sluggish species, hiding among its food-plants, and 

 if disturbed usually dropping ijuietly down among the grass 

 or lower herbage and rarely flying except on very favourable 

 — that is warm and still — evenings, when it will fly from 

 6 P.M. to sunset quietlj^ very near the ground, always keeping 

 close to these plants. Sometimes plentiful in the fens of 

 Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, though so seldom seen ; also 

 about ditches or marshy places in Kent, Hants with the 

 Isle of Wight, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Wilts, Berks, Essex, 

 Suffolk, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Cheshire. I 

 know of no other localities in these Islands. Abroad it is 

 known to occur in Germany and Italy and in Norway. It is 

 an obscure species, and, I think, a source of much confusion. 



10. E. manniana, F.-Il. ; luridana, Gvegson. — Ex- 

 panse I inch (10 mm.). Fore wings pale yellow with a 

 narrow chestnut-brown central band, sometimes forked at 

 the costa. 



Antennas pale brown, ciliated with minute white bristles ; 

 palpi and head creamy-white ; thorax j'ellow-brown, abdomen 

 pale brown. Fore wings short and rather blunt ; costa but 

 little arched ; creamy-white or pale yellow ; basal blotch 



