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Distribution. — Central Europe ; Finland ; Armenia. 



Note. — Flies in June and July, frequenting the borders of 

 woods. The larva has been described by Treitschke, who says 

 that it is earthy-brown, with head and plate on second segment 

 darker brown; feeds in galleries under moss on stones in March. 



Eromene ocellea, Haw. (PI. IV. fig. 11.) 



BRIT. REP. : — 



Palparia ocellea, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 486. 



Oncocera ocellea, Steph. Cat. ii. p. 217 ; Wood, Index, 1480. 



Araxes ocellea, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 316. 



Crambus ocellea, Stainton, Ent. Ann. 1862, p. 110. 



Eromene ocellea, Hearder, Ent. Mo. Mag. iii. p. 139 ; Gregson, 



Entom. iv. pp. 240 and 263 ; Webb, E. M. M. xvi. p. 101 ; 



Eagonot, E. M. M. xvii. p. 17; Ellis, Lep. Fauna Lane. 



& Chesh. p. 76 ; Doubl. List, Suppl. p. 2 ; South, Syn. 



List, p. 20 ; Leech, Brit. Pyral. p. 87, pi. x. fig. 2. 



Expanse, 1 inch. Fore wings brownish, tinged with ochreous ; beyond 

 the middle two oblique leaden lines enclose a band of the ground colour, 

 another line of the same hue is sharply angulated below apex, and then runs 

 parallel with outer margin; beyond this line is a series of jet-black spots 

 with metallic centres. Hind wings fuscous grey, fringes whitish. 



British Localities. — Folkestone; Dumfries; Cheshire; 

 Glamorganshire. 



Distribution. — Central Europe; Madeira; N. W. Asia 

 Minor ; Syria ; Palestine. 



Note. — The specimen described by Haworth in 1812 was 

 captured in the suburbs of London. Subsequently this example 

 passed into Mr. Stephens' collection, where it still remains, in 

 the insect-room of the Natural History Museum, South Ken- 

 sington. For fifty years Haworth's type remaih>€L4h« only 

 known British specimen of E. ocellea, but in 1862 a second 

 specimen was announced ; four years later a third capture was 

 recorded, a fourth in 1868, and three others in 1869. Mr. S. 

 Webb took a specimen in August, 1879, and perhaps others may 

 have been captured during the past twenty years, but I cannot 

 find that they have been recorded. From the fact of some of the 

 British specimens having been taken in February and March it 

 has been assumed that the species hybernates, but there is only 

 circumstantial evidence to support this view. E. ocellea appears 

 to be a South European and North African insect; its occurrence 

 in England at all is probably accidental, but in any case it is 

 difficult to understand how the imago could manage to survive 

 the cold of a British winter. In Tangiers Mr. Leech has taken 

 the species in February, flying at dusk on the sand-hills, but 

 there is no reason to suppose that the species hybernates so far 

 south. 



