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slopes of hill sides, where the herbage is short, and thin, and 

 grass very poor, often among scattered fleabana and small 

 sedges, the clay soil retaining moisture enough to allow 

 tliem to live. Here it hides among the shortest herbage, 

 settling near the ground on the grass, dwarf Carcx, Genista 

 tindoria, and other plants quite indifferently ; if disturbed 

 by the footstep in the sunshine it will start up and fly a 

 short distance, but at sunset it is lively and flies freely. 

 The original captures of this species with us seem to have 

 been by Weaver, in Devon, but of these I find no direct 

 record, and the species was supposed to have been lost, 

 when I discovered it in Pembrokeshire. After that it was 

 found in Kent; and by Mr. N. M. Richardson in 

 Carmarthenshire ; and Mr. Kuss, of Sligo, Ireland, captured 

 five specimens in a moist field close to his house. This is 

 the extent of our knowledge of its range in these Islands. 

 Abroad it is widely distributed over Central and Northern 

 Germany, the North of Italy and of Spain, Austriji. 

 Hungary, North-west Russiii, Sweden and Asia Elinor. 



12. E. geyeriana, if.-,S'.— Expanse g to ^ in. (9-12 mm.). 

 Head pale yellowish-brown ; fore wings silky or silvery pale 

 ochreous, with chocolate-brown markings. 



Antennaj ciliated, brown ; palpi and head brownish- 

 yellow ; abdomen pale grey brown. Fore wings rather 

 narrow, especially so at the base ; apex and hind margin 

 rounded ; silvery pale ochreous, shining ; near the base is 

 a large dull ochreous cloud ; central band a little oblique, 

 broad, sharply defined, red-brown or chocolate-brown, which 

 often throws off a streak toward the apex ; beyond it is 

 a similar triangular dorsal spot, and a large cloud filling the 

 apical and hind marginal area, except a narrow pale streak 

 across the apex ; cilia pale yellow-brown. Hind wings, with 

 their cilia, pale smoky brown. Female similar, but a little 

 darker. 



Underside of the fore wings dark smoky brown ; costa 



