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another, spinning several together and living therein. But 

 occasionall}-, by the hastj' contraction of the shell of the 

 seed-vessel a larva, gets caught and killed. When full-fed 

 leaving these seed-heads and spining up among rubbish- 

 (W. Warren.) 



The moth tlies at sunset about the scabious, but is exceed- 

 ingly local and seldom found away from chalky soils, nor 

 very often seen by day. Oar records are on the chalk hills 

 of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, with the Isle of Wight, 

 Essex and Oxfordshire. Except that I found it myself very 

 rarely in Pembrokeshire I know of no other locality for it in 

 the United Kingdom ; and abroad it seems to be unknown, 

 or entirely overlooked, for Heinemann treats its name 

 as a synonym of E. cpilinana, a very different species. 

 Probably it and E. dcgreijana are passed by as varieties of 

 E. ruscaiut, yet from the brilliancy of its white and rose-pink 

 colour it is difficult to understand how this can be the case. 



20. E. subroseana, Hav\ — Expanse i to § inch (12-16 

 mm.). Head and fore wings j^ellowish -white, central band 

 and hinder area red-brown. 



AntennEe dark brown ; palpi, head and thorax creamy 

 yellow ; abdomen black-brown. Fore wings rather broad, 

 or somewhat ovate ; the costa very slightlj' arched, and the 

 apex and hind margin rounded ; basal area yellowish-white 

 tinged on the costa with olive-brown; central band nearly 

 erect but curved a little outwards, red-brown or orange- 

 brown ; beyond, with a small yellow-white interval, is a 

 minute red-brown dorsal spot ; beyond this the whole area 

 is thickly dusted with red-brown forming a cloud which fills 

 the apical space to the anal angle, except that on the costa 

 are yellow dots ; cilia reddish-brown. Hind wings smoke 

 colour with paler cilia. Female similar. 



Undersides of fore and hind wings dull leaden-brown. 



On the wing in June, July and the beginning of 

 August, in a single generation. 



