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the sunshine from blade to blade of the slender <viry salt- 

 marsh grass {Spartina) or taking little flights of a few feet 

 at a time. Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., says: '• I found it outside 

 the sea-wall, in the Isle of Sheppey, where there is a rather 

 luxuriant growth of grass and Artcmesia maritima. The 

 readiest way to obtain it is to sweep very lightly the tips of 

 the grass and herbage, frequently examining the net. With 

 a little practice, however, the creature may be detected on the 

 wing. It looks like a Psychocla when flying. A still, hot, 

 bright day seems to be essential to success." 



First observed and recorded in 1847, and since found, 

 though not very cominonly, in salt marshes on the coast of 

 Kent, rather more commonly in those of the Essex coast, also 

 very locally on the coasts of Sussex and Hants, and even 

 recorded, very rarely, on that of Devon. So far as this 

 country is concerned, this is the extent of its range, and it 

 does not seem hitherto to have been noticed abroad, except 

 that it has been found by Dr. Heylaerts, of Breda, in Holland, 

 but it is difficult to suppose that it could not be found, if 

 looked for, in most of the salt marshes on the coasts of France, 

 Germany, and Holland. 



(E. undulella, F.R. — Also a very small species, though 

 larger than the preceding, and with longer hind wings, white 

 and reticulated in a similar manner, but with much more 

 slender undulating cross-lines. Said to inhabit Hungary and 

 Southern Kussia. My only excuse for mentioning this pretty 

 species as a possible inhabitant of these islands is that in Dr. 

 Mason's series of E. reticella, which are (necessarily) British, 

 there is a single example of it. Unfortunately no label is 

 attached, and its place of capture is unknown, nor indeed 

 was it recognised as distinct.) 



Genus 3. FUMEA. 



Antennse of male rather short and regularly pectinated 

 with teeth of very moderate length, regular, not very distinct, 

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