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bristles. In a slight cocoou iu the middle of a flower-head 

 of Er'ujcron. 



The moth is rather hardy, disregarding cold, and buzzing 

 about the Erigcron in plenty between sunset and dark, its 

 numbers sometimes almost filling the air like midges. 

 Exceedingly local, but abundant iu some parts of Norfolk 

 and Suffolk ; also found in Essex, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and 

 Oxfordshire ; but I know of no other localities for it in the 

 United Kingdom, and it does not seem as yet to have been 

 noticed abroad. This species appears to have been recog- 

 nised as British by Wilkinson (1859), and noticed as occur- 

 ring about Charlton, Kent, and was called by him E. 

 ■antlinnidana. Curt. Some controversy took place on the 

 subject of this name from time to time, especially after 

 Lord Walsingham discovered the moth iu plenty in Norfolk : 

 and at his instance Mr. E. Meyrick took specimens with him 

 when he went to Australia, for comjjarison with Curtis's 

 type supposed to exist in the Museum at Melbourne. No 

 such specimens, however, proved to be there ; and as all the 

 evidence tended to show this to be a distinct species. Lord 

 Walsingham conferred ujjon it in 1891 the name which 

 stands at the head of this article. No name could, in my 

 opinion, be more suitable ; and I am fully convinced that 

 the original anthcmidana of Curtis was a second or third 

 brood specimen — probably female, of E. implicitana. 



21. E. nana, ifrnc— Expanse § to h inch (10-13 mm.). 

 Head yellow ; fore wings very narrow, pale yellow ; cen- 

 tral band broad, grey-black ; a black streak before the apex. 



Antennte slender, dark brown ; palpi and head yellow or 

 yellow-brown ; thorax and abdomen black-brown. Fore 

 wings narrow; costa but faintly curved; apex bluntly 

 rounded ; hind margin curved, short ; cream3^-yellow, base 

 dusted with black ; central band very broad, irregular, ill- 

 defined, composed of a thick dull black or grey-black dusting ; 

 on the costa toward the apex are one or two blackish dots, 

 and beneath them a streak or cloud of similar dusting; cilia 



