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C. Surface generally covered with ashy white, and reddish, 

 lone-itudinal dashes. G. cana. 



B'^ Basal blotch red-brown, remainder dull dark brown. 



C. scoijoliana. 



A'\ Fore wings dark grey-brown, rippled and mottled with 

 brownish white. C coicimaculmia. 



1. C. expallidana, Rem. ; ibiceana, ^a/^.— Expanse 

 f to f inch (15-19 mm.). 



Antennge dull drab ; palpi, head, and thorax light fulvous ; 

 abdomen pale brown. Fore wings elongated, narrow ; costa 

 folded at the base, nearly straight; apex rather bluntly 

 angulated, hind margin oblique, rather short ; light fulvous, 

 with a deeper shade of the same colour, or of light brown, 

 through the middle from base to apex ; costal streaks hardly 

 perceptible ; ocellus large, squared, edged on either side with 

 pale silvery brown streaks, and containing usually one short 

 black line with fragments of others ; cilia pale fulvous. 

 Hind wings very pale smoky brown ; cilia dull white. 

 Female similar, but without the costal fold. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown, the margins 

 fulvous. Hind wings dusky white. 



On the wing at the end of June and in July. 



Larva quick and active in all its movements ; plump and 

 fat, somewhat attenuated behind, and with deeply cut seg- 

 mental divisions; a furrow crosses each segment just behind 

 the middle ; dorsal region orange yellow, whitish below the 

 spiracles, the line of separation of colour somewhat abrupt ; 

 head small, chestnut ; mouth black ; dorsal plate large, pale 

 brown ; anal plate faint amber colour, variegated with 

 pale brown. (Dr. J. H. Wood.) 



August and September on corn sow-thistle (Sonchus 

 ■arvensis) in the flower-heads, feeding upon the immature 

 seeds. When full fed leaving the plant to spin a cocoon 



