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flowers and seed heads ; liybernating and pupating in the 

 stems. Before the flowers appear it lias been known to feed 

 on the leaves, living under turned down edges. 



This species is attached to salt marshes where Aster 

 tripolium is common, and favours specially certain spots of 

 small extent ; hiding during the day close to the ground, 

 but starting up and flying sharply away, if disturbed during 

 bright sunshine. Occasionally, however, it may be found 

 actively on the wing, without apparent cause, in the afternoon, 

 but its usual time of natural flight is about sunset, when it 

 flits quietly about near the ground in its favourite haunts. 

 Probably this species occurs, like the last, in all coast salt 

 marshes of any extent, but usually in much smaller 

 numbers ; it, however, is recorded only in those of Kent, 

 Sussex, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Somerset, Essex, Suffolk, 

 Lancashire and Durham ; and in Wales in Pembrokeshire. I 

 find no further records in these Islands. Abroad it is 

 known to inhabit the South of France, German^-, and Sicily. 



16. E. rupicola, Curt.; i)halcrat.cuia, H.-S. — Expanse 

 ^ inch (12-14 mm.). Fore wings broad, obtuse, yellow-drab 

 at the base, red-brown behind, and having a red-brown 

 central band. 



Antenna; thickly ciliated, brown ; palpi, head, and thorax 

 dull yellow-brown ; abdomen dark brown. Fore wings short 

 and broad, very blunt behind ; costa very slightly arched ; 

 apex rounded; hind margin almost perpendicular; yellow- 

 drab or pale brownish-drab ; central band nearly erect, 

 bj'oad and clubbed, dull red-brown ; beyond it almost the 

 entire hinder area is filled, except along the costa, with red- 

 brown ; cilia dull drab. Hind wings broad, black -brown; 

 cilia smoky-white. Female very similar, a little larger and 

 stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden-brown ; of hind wings 

 smoky white. 



Variable in the ground colour of the wings, from presence 



