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visible as a faint reddish cloud ; central band oblique and 

 faintly curved, sharply defined, chestnut-brown or orange- 

 brown ; outside it is a faint, similar dorsal triangle, and 

 beyond a distinct orange-brown costal spot, which throws off 

 a faint stripe across the apex of the wing ; cilia yellowish- 

 white. Hind wings and their cilia smoky white. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky brown, more 

 yellow along the costa. Hind wings glossy white. 



On the wing from the end of May to the beginning of 

 July. 



Larva. I think that this is still quite unknown. The 

 larva described under this name by Steudel is, in my 

 opinion, that of E. alismana; that by v. Heyden, E. 

 notulana. The species reared from Butonius vymhellahis by 

 Dr. Rosenhauer still seems uncertain, but the present species 

 shows no indication whatever of connection with that plant. 



A rare species in this country, and one of which little is 

 known. Several specimens were taken in Westmoreland in 

 the year 1869 by Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, and named, by 

 Mr. C. S. Gregson, Argi/rolepia luridnna; in 1874 the 

 species was found, not very rarely, by Mr. E. Meyrick, about 

 Hungerford, Wilts. Mr. Me3'rick found it about dry places 

 — in a wood-drive; on a common ; about flowery banks, and 

 at light at night — also noticed to rest upon Ccntaurea, though 

 a subsequent search upon this plant revealed no trace of a 

 larva. Casual specimens have occurred in Surrey, Sussex, 

 Dorset, and Devon, and also in Durham, but I know of no 

 other records in these Islands. Abroad it is reported to be 

 found through Central and South-East Europe, Italy, and 

 Central and Western Asia. 



11. E. mussehliana, Tr. — Expanse | to h inch 

 (9-12 mm.). Head yellowish-white; forewings very silky, pale 



