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brilliantly glossy ; abdomen dull pale yellow, with a frosted 

 appearance. In the stem, forcing its way through a round 

 hole prepared by the larva, and often dropping down on the 

 emergence of the moth. 



Especially attached to railway-banks, but found also in 

 rough fields near woods ; and partial to calcareous soils. A 

 lively species, flying often in the sunshine, and especially 

 late in the afternoon ; also flying freely at sunset. Rather 

 a local species, but found in the southern counties from 

 Kent to Dorset and in Surrey, Berks, and Wilts not uncom- 

 monly ; rarely in Somerset, Gloucestershire, and Worcester- 

 shire ; also locally in Oxfordshire, Cambs, Herts, Essex, and 

 Suffolk, but so far as I know this is the extent of its range 

 in these Islands. Abroad it is common throughout Central 

 and Southern Europe, and in Asia Minor and Armenia. 



9. A. maritiinana, (hi. — Expanse | to \ inch (15-19 

 mm.), lore wings bright yellow, dusted with chocolate-red ; 

 central band slender, branched outwardly, chocolate-red. 



Antennae sti'ongly ciliated, black-brown, pale yellow at the 

 back ; palpi, head, and thorax dull ochreous, dusted with 

 brown ; abdomen grey-brown, faintly barred with greyish 

 white. Fore wings moderately broad ; costa very straight 

 except toward the apex, which is rounded, hind margin 

 rather full ; pale ochi-eous dusted with chocolate-red and 

 faintly with white ; costa dotted throughout with dark red- 

 brown, a few similar dots in the basal area ; central band 

 rather slender, not sharply defined, angulated, yet broken 

 up into small clouds of red-brown dusting; beyond is another 

 broken transverse series, almost appearing as branches of the 

 central band ; around the hinder area lie a few similar dots ; 

 cilia pale yellow, dashed with dark-brown. Hind wings 

 smoky black much dappled with white and shading towards 

 white at the base ; cilia white. Female similar, the hind 

 wings less white at the base. 



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