3i8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



shining bltack bead, each segment divided by an oblique 

 wrinkle ; anal flaj) with a small brownish shield-like plate. 

 (Cart.) 



September and October, in the flowers and seeds of 

 AchiUcn miUcfolium, making a silken gallery straight across 

 the seed-head, passing the winter therein and spinning up in 

 spring in the same place. 



Pi TA rather stout, red-brown, with yellowish-brown wiug- 

 covers. In the larval habitation, but sometimes the larva 

 leaves this, and spins up among rubbish. 



This species seems always to have been scarce here, yet 

 forty or fifty years ago was found in Surrey in some 

 numbers, especially at Guildford, Croydon and Box Hill ; 

 more recently on the coast near Worthing and Brighton, 

 Sussex ; and near Southend, Essex ; at Folkestone and 

 Charlton, Kent ; and in the Isle of Wight. These appear to 

 be all its known localities iu these Islands, and from them 

 there has been no record for some years. Abroad it is 

 found almost all over Central and Southern Europe, also in 

 Rithynia. 



2. Li. dilucidana, Steph. — Expanse ^ inch (12 mm.) 

 Very slender and delicate ; fore wings narrow, pale yellow 

 with one and a half slender, oblicpe, transverse, chocolate 

 stripes. 



Antennae pale brown ; palpi, head, and thorax pale 

 primrose-yellow, abdomen slender, pale brown with a pale 

 yellow anal tuft. Fore wings narrow, costa faintly arched, 

 apex angulated; primrose-yellow with two slender, very 

 oblique, pale chocolate transverse stripes, the first extending 

 from the dorsal margin only to the median nervure, the 

 other complete and rather straight; cilia yellowish-white. 

 Hind wings and their cilia white. Female similar, a little 

 stouter and sometimes having opposite to the lir^t stripe 

 a brown dot on the costa. 



