SERICORID.E—A CROIJTA . 7 1 



The moth sits iu the tree on the tnink of which it has fed 

 as a larva, and may readily be beaten out from the branches. 

 Usually a rare species, though long known, in these Islands ; 

 but in the year 1894 Mr. A. C. Vine of Brighton found it in 

 abundance frequenting one ash tree in Sussex. He told me 

 that the neighbouring ash trees were not frequented, and 

 that this tree had no special clothing of moss or Hqxdiccc, 

 and that nothing could be discovered to explain the extra- 

 ordinary circumstance. Larvas were searched for on the 

 tree that season, but none were found, and so far as I know 

 the species has not since been noticed there. The series of 

 specimens taken by Mr. Vine is still in evidence in my (and 

 many other) cabinets. Elsewhere it has been taken, though 

 never commonly, in Kent, Surrey, Hants — the New Forest 

 especially — Dorset, Worcestershire, and -at Monkswood, 

 Hunts. The only other record in these Islands, known to 

 me, is of a single specimen taken at Killarney, Ireland, by 

 Mr. J. J. F. X. King. This specimen I have seen. Its 

 range abroad is through Central Europe, the South of 

 Sweden and Norwav, Piedmont, Dalmatia and Bithynia. 



Genus 14. ACROLITA. 



Antennre thick, ciliated ; palpi very short, broadly tufted, 

 placed horizontally below the head ; thorax smooth ; fore 

 wings without fold ; costa flatly arched ; apex blunt. 



We have two species, not very similar. 

 A. Fore wings pale tawny brown with browner markings. 



A. consequana. 



A-. Fore wings white, clouded at the base and apex with 



blue-black. A. scrvillmia, 



1. A. consequana, H.-S.; havrkerana, Sta. Fore 

 wings pale tawny brown with rather darker brown basal 

 blotch and slender oblique central band. 



