78 LEPIDOPTERA. 



it is common in Central and Northern Europe, North and 

 Central Italy, Dalmatia, and Bithynia. 



2. E. quadrana, Huh. — Expanse \ to f inch (12-15 

 mm.) Fore wings brownish white with numerous transverse 

 brown lines and two transverse bands which are mainly 

 visible on the dorsal region. Hind wings pale smoky 

 bi'own. 



AntenntB ciliated, black-brown ; palpi, head, and thorax 

 pale grey-brown ; abdomen silky grey. Fore wings elon- 

 gate, narrow at the base ; costa straight, without fold ; apex 

 bluntly angulated ; hind margin straight and rather oblique ; 

 pale brownish grey with numerous slender transverse brown 

 lines ; on the dorsal margin are two brown blotches, the first 

 somewhat squared the second broad and semi-ovate, almost 

 joined by two slender oblique stripes from the costa ; beyond 

 is a brown costal spot ; cilia pale grey, intersected by one or 

 two black-brown lines. Hind wings and their cilia pale 

 smoky brown. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dark smoky brown ; costa 

 edged and dotted with yellowish white ; a white streak lies 

 in the hind margin, and another at the anal angle. Hind 

 wings pale smoky brown. 



On the wing in May. 



Larva apparently undescribed. Sorhagen says that it 

 lives, sociably, close to the earth, on the stem of >Scahiosa 

 arceasis; pupating in a papery cocoon. 



The moth is found principally upon chalky downs and in 

 open woodlands, but it is very scarce with us. It seems 

 usually to be taken among field scabious, and flies gently over 

 rough ground in the late afternoon. It is local, and appears 

 confined to the counties Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, with 

 the Isle of Wight, and in the North to North Lancashire and 

 We?tmoreland. Except that Mr. J. Gardner has taken a 



