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A^. Fore wings dark brown with a leaden tint. 



E. funelrana. 



I.E. nebritana, Tr. ; pisana, Gn. Wilk. ; nigricana, 



Staud. Cat. — Expanse -| to | inch (12-15 mm.). Fore wings 

 short and broad, shining olive black or olive brown, with 

 numerous silvery costal dots. 



Antennae black-brown ; palpi, head, and thorax olive 

 brown ; abdomen whitish brown and glossy. Fore wings 

 rather short and broad ; costa without fold, very flatly 

 arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; glossy olive brown or olive 

 black rather dusted with yellow-brown ; costa spotted with 

 •small dai-k brown and larger yellow-white dots, the latter 

 triangular; ocellus obscure — three or four black horizontal 

 streaks between two silvery white cloudy erect curved lines ; 

 hind margin edged with a black line ; cilia olive brown, 

 with a white dash below the apex. Hind wings pale brown 

 shading toward the base to pearly white ; cilia white. 

 Female larger and darker, hind wings wholly dark brown. 



Undersides of all the wings glossy pale lead colour ; costal 

 dots of the fore wings dull white. 



Somewhat variable in size and also in the depth of the 

 ■olive brown colour. 



On the wing in June and July, and a very partial or 

 ■casual second generation in August. 



Larva cylindrical, plump, yellowish white with a faint 

 greenish tinge ; raised dots large and distinct, grey, with 

 short white hairs; head deeply lobed, the lobes light brown 

 ^dged with black ; mouth dark brown ; dorsal plate narrow, 

 divided blackish brown ; anal plate yellow with a blackish 

 tinge. 



July and August in the pods of peas, eating the green 

 peas and uniting them together with a web, in which much 

 excrement is entangled. When full fed leaving the pod to 

 .spin up in the earth, where it passes the winter before 



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