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before dusk, and keeping closely about these plants. The 

 statement that it frequents flea-bane is not confirmed by my 

 own experience. Its flight evidently continues after dark, since 

 it will come to a strong light. Very local in this country, 

 but found in Kent, Dorset, Devon, Oxfordshire, Essex, Cambs 

 and Norfolk. Except that Mr. F. W. de V. Kane records it 

 at "Minehead, Co. Waterford," in Ireland, this seems to 

 be the extent of its range withus. Abroad it appears to be 

 very little known and seems only to be recorded from France 

 and Holland. 



2. E. littoralis, C'^^'?;.— Expanse I to f inch (12-16 mm.). 

 Fore wings long, narrow and pointed ; reddish white with 

 two transverse narrow brown bands and an oblique brown 

 cloud running into the apex. 



Antennas dull brown ; palpi, head and thorax light brown ; 

 abdomen slender, grey-brown. Fore wings elongated, rather 

 narrow, costa almost straight, apex sharply angulated, 

 hind margin oblique ; brownish white or reddish white, with 

 a tinge of fawn colour ; basal blotch indicated by an erect red- 

 brown half-stripe placed outside some similar clouding; central 

 band of the same colour, very narrow, angulated and pointed 

 outwardly in the middle ; running into the apex is a long 

 similar cloudy streak ; costa dotted with brown and the hind 

 margin with black ; cilia pale fawn colour. Hind wings 

 pale smoky brown ; cilia white. Female somewhat smaller, 

 the fore wings rather more narrow and also more sharply 

 marked. 



Underside of fore wings dark smoky brown ; costa and 

 hind margin shaded with white. Hind wings smoky- 

 white. 



Variable in colour and markings, the red-browm colour 

 sometimes suffused over the paler ground-colour, sometimes 

 absent, leaving the whole surface without markings. Some- 

 times even the darker colour of the markings is displaced 



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