2a 6 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 4. — Ckambus Argentellus ' — (LinnEeus, &c.; Wood, fig. 1488 ; and our Plate CXVI., Fi<r. 4) 

 — Expands 10 to 13 lines ; fore wings immaculate, silvery, with a silken gloss; hind wings very pale brown. 

 Taken in chalky places near London, and elsewhere, in July and August. 



' SvNONYME. — Tinea perlella, Hubner. 



Species 5. — Cram bus dealbellus— (Thunberg ? Wood, fig. 1489, and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 5) — Expands 

 13 lines ; fore wings immaculate silvery, with a silken gloss ; hind wings silky-white. Taken in chalky districts 

 in -June and Juh'. 



Species 6. — Crambtjs tentaculellus — (Hubner; Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1490, and our Plate CXVI., 

 Fig. 6) — Expands 12 lines ; fore wings bay-coloured, with the basal half of the costa, and three longitudinal 

 streaks, the middle one broadest, and the others slightly branching at the tip, all of silvery, also with a short, 

 white, slender, sub-apical, and a golden apical line ; hind wings whitish. Coombe Wood, very rare. 



Species 7.— Crambus hamellus' — (Thunberg, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1491, and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 7) — 



Expands 11 to 12 lines ; fore wings sub-emarginate at the tip, greyish-brown, with a longitudinal, sliglitly-silvery 



streak, having a small tooth on its inner edge, and a small triangular pale patch on the apical margin, separated 



from the former by a slender brown, curved sub-apical streak, edged on the outside with white; apical margin 



with a row of four or five black dots ; hind wings brownish-white. Woods and Forests in June. 



s SvNoNYMEs. — Tinea ensigere'la, Hubner. 

 Palparia bacccestria, Haworth. 



Species 8. — Crambtjs pascuellus — (Linnaus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1492, and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 8) — 

 Expands 9 to IO.t Hues ; fore wings tawny-gold, and rather glossy, with a broad, silvery streak, occupying 

 nearly the anterior half of the wing, and terminating with a small oval patch of the same near its extre:uity, 

 also a small triangular silvery one on the costa, and an interrupted black apical line ; hind wings whitish. 

 Common in meadows in June. 



Species 9. — Crambos scoticds — (Plate CXVI., Fig. 9) — Expands 10 lines ; fore wings very pale straw- 

 bufi", with a slender brown line aloncr the costa, a white lonoitudinal lanceolate dash extends from the base to 

 beyond the middle (occupying the space between the sub-costal and median veins), angulated at its extremity, and 

 edged with a brown line behind, from whence extend four silvery lines, edged on each side with brown, and a 

 central white, somewhat triangular patch, reaching nearly to the apical margin, which is preceded by an angulated 

 silvery streak, and a somewhat ocellated small patch at the apex ; along the apical margin are four or five black 

 dots ; hind wings very pale whitish brown. Taken by Jlr. Neale in Scotland. Described from Mr. Bentley's 

 cabinet. 



Species 10. — Crambus ericellus — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1494 ; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 10) — 

 Expands 9 lines ; fore wings slightly hooked at the tip, of a fulvous-brown, witli longitudinal, rusty-brown 

 streaks, and an angulated subapical striga of the same colour ; a narrow, silvery-white, longitudinal fascia, and a 

 small spot of the same near the apex ; hind wings gray-brown. From the north of England and Scotland, 

 in June. 



Species 11. — Crambos pratellus — (Linnaaus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1495 ; and our Plato CXVI., Fig. 11) — 

 Expands 9 or 10 lines ; fore wings slightly hooked, fulvous-brown or whitish, with the base of the costa, a 



