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to be considered a small variety of E. (leiicriana. Of this 

 variety some large examples, well marked, and obtained hj 

 Mr. Eustace Bankes, seem to be identical with the specimens 

 which still exist in the Collection of the late J. F. Stephens 

 in the British Museum under the name oi griseana. That it 

 is the original (jriscana of Haworth is perhaps less certain. 



On the wing in May and June, and as a second 

 generation in July and August. 



LARV.i. Head polished, brownish-amber ; ocelli black, 

 polished; dorsal plate shiny greenish-amber; body stout 

 in the middle, narrower at each extremity, pale apple-green, 

 lightly tinged on the back with pink ; dorsal vessel visible 

 as a darker dorsal line ; raised dots black, polished, very 

 small ; anal plate pale greenish-amber ; hairs short and 

 inconspicuous ; legs pale amber, prolegs pale apple-green. 

 (E. R. Bankes, condensed.) 



June and September on Triglochin maritivuun, burrowing 

 into the shoots just above the crown of the plant ; eating 

 out the pith, working downward and sometimes burrowing 

 into the crown itself ; moving readily from shoot to shoot. 



This larva appears to have been first found on the 

 Durham coast before 1869, but the food-plant was then 

 mistaken for Plantago maritima. 



Pita short and stout ; head and thoracic segments 

 smooth, polished, dark orange-brown ; wing and limb covers 

 brownish-ochreous ; abdominal segments dull, but of the 

 same colour; cremaster furnished with recurved spikelets. 

 (E. E. Bankes, condensed.) 



This species with us usually inhabits salt marshes on the 

 coast, and often is, in them, exceedingly abundant. It hides 

 among the short herbage close to the ground and can 

 scarcely be induced to take wing in the daytime ; but at 

 sunset and through the dusk is, in mild evenings, on the 

 wing in multitudes. 1 have not met with it inland, but 



