200 LEPIDOPTERA. 



just beneath the surface of the earth, and there remaining, 

 unchanged, until the following summer. 



This moth is much attached to cultivated ground, such as. 

 clover and corn-fields, and also sometimes to the more settled 

 portions of coast sandhills, railway banks, and quarries. It 

 seems never to fly in the daytime, but only in the dusk- 

 often late dusk — and to continue on ifar into the night ; 

 occasionally it may be found at that time at a roadside gas 

 lamp. Always apparently scarce, yet widely distributed in 

 England; recorded from all the southern counties, from 

 Kent to Somerset and Herts, also throughout the eastern 

 counties ; and in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicester- 

 shire, Worcestershire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Yorkshire, 

 and Durham, though rarely. In Wales I took it in Pem- 

 brokeshire ; in kScotland Mr, J. Dunsmore informed me, long 

 ago, of his capture of a single specimen near Paisley, but I 

 have no record for Ireland. Abroad its range extends 

 through German}!, Lower Austria, the Tyrol, Galicia, 

 Livonia, Northern Spain, Piedmont, and South-east Russia. 



2. C. scopoHana, Haw. ; hohenwarthiana (?), Schiff.-, 

 var. parvulana, Wilh. — Expanse f inch (18 mm.). Head 

 brownish white ; fore wings dull brown with a faintly paler 

 broad dorsal blotch, richer brown basal blotch, and faint 

 silvery costal lines. 



Antennge black-brown, pale in front ; palpi and head 

 brownish white, browner at the sides ; thorax dark brown ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wings elongate, costa folded at 

 the base and nearly straight, apex rather squared ; hind 

 margin straight; dull pale brown shaded with darker brown; 

 basal blotch richer or darker brown or obscurely blackened, 

 its outer margin hollowed, and followed by a broad pale 

 brown dorsal blotch ; central band a mere brown cloud ; 

 costa clouded with dark brown, in which are numerous 

 whitish costal streaks ; ocellus rather square, containing two 



