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Abroad its range is doubtful from its coufusiou with 

 L. lutarella, but it appears to occur in Sweden ; and Guenee 

 says that he finds it, in France, in dry sandy woods near 

 Paris and Chateaudun. Staudinger adds Holland, 



5. L. caniola, Hiih. — Expanse, i\ to i\ inch. Fore wings 

 narrow, shining, greyish-white, with the costa yellow to the 

 apex ; hind wings whitish. 



Antennse slender, very regularly fringed, in the male, with 

 delicately curved bristles ; grey tinged with yellow and with 

 the base deep yellow ; head and front of thorax rich yellow ; 

 back of thorax pale grey ; abdomen grey with the apical tuft 

 yellow. Fore wings long and narrow, slightly broader beyond 

 the middle, with the costal margin very gently curved to the 

 apex, which is blunt and almost angulated ; hind margin very 

 slightly rounded; dorsal margin nearly straight; very pale 

 shining grey, or whitish-grey ; costal margin narrowly edged 

 with yellow, which in some instances is faintly shaded into 

 the somewhat pale costal stripe ; cilia whitish-grey. Hind 

 wings rather ample, the apex nearly as long as the fore wings ; 

 rounded behind, very thin and delicate ; white, usually with a 

 faint tinge of grey towards the costal margin ; cilia shining 

 white. Female similar, with simple antenna3, and the fore 

 wings slightly shorter. Underside of fore wings dark grey, 

 with the apex and hind margin broadly whitish-yellow and 

 the nervures grey ; hind wings pale grey, with the hinder 

 half and hind margin whitish ; body pale grey ; legs yellow, 

 with the front of the tarsi greyer. Hardly variable except in 

 the shade of greyish of the fore wings. 



On the wing in July and August, or occasionally before the 

 end of June. 



Larva one inch long ; rather slender, thickest in the 

 middle ; head round, grey-brown or slate-grey ; body brown, 

 varying to slate-grey, with a slender, undulating blackish 

 dorsal line ; subdorsal lines composed of rather wedge- 



