AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 239 



Species 27. — Crambus obtusellus— (Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1516; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 27) — 

 Expands 9^ lines ; fore wings broad, obtuse, and brown, with a faintly silvery longitudinal streak, slightly 

 furcate at the apex, and inwardly subserrated ; apical margin with a dusky line ; fringe slightly metallic ; hind 

 wings brown. Taken near Ripley and elsewhere, in June. 



Species 28. — Crambus PETKiFicELLns — (Hubner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1517 ; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 28) 

 — Expands 10 lines ; fore wings broad and short, pale yellow, with brown atoms, a longitudinal pearly-white 

 streak branching into four towards the apex, and with a transverse repanded line, edged within with whitish ; 

 hind wings pale ashy. Round London, in June. 



Species 29. — Crambus aquilellus — (Hubner and Wood, fig. 1518 ; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 29) — 

 Expands 1 inch ; fore wings narrow, lutescent, with the costa broadly brown, a longitudinal silvery streak 

 sometimes nearly obsolete along the middle, and a nearly obsolete subapical brown line ; hind wings ashy. 

 Taken in meadows, &c., in June and July. 



Species 30. — Crambus paleellus ■■ — (Hiibner, &c.,- Wood, fig. 1519; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 30) 

 — Expands 12 to 14 lines ; fore wings narrow, pale luteous, or ochreous, with a slender, silvery-white, longitudinal 

 streak, more or less distinct, and bordered naiTowly with brown, scarcely reaching beyond the middle of the 

 wing ; hind wings brown. Common, in -July, in meadows, &c. 



"■ Synonyme. — Tinea exolctella, Wien. Verz. 



Species 31. — Crambus culmorum — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1520; and our Plate CXVI, Fig. 31) — 

 Expands 13 lines ; fore wings narrow, ashy-brown, with a broad brown costal margin, and with a slender central 

 silvery-white streak, subramose at the extremity ; hind wings brown. Common in June and July. 



Species 32. — Crambus fuscelinellus — (Schrank, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1521 ; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 

 32) — Expands 10 to 13 lines ; fore wings narrow, brownish, with a longitudinal central white streak, edged on 

 the outside with black, and not ramose at the extremity ; hind wings ashy-brown. Common in meadows, &c., 

 in June and July. 



Species 33. — Crambus nigristriellfs — (Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1522 ; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 33) — 

 Expands 13 lines ; fore wings very narrow, pale ochreous, irrorated with brown, espeoially towards the inner 

 margin, with a longitudinal black, somewhat interrupted streak, slightly branched at its extremity ; hind wings 

 ashy. Near Ripley, in July. 



Species 34.— Crambus culmellus '— (Linnaus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1501 ; and our Plate CXVI., 



Fig. .34) — Expands 7 to 9^ lines; fore wings somewhat retuse, pale straw-coloured, or ochreous, with the costa 



darker, with almost obsolete, longitudinal, pulverose brown streaks on the disc; the fringe golden- ashy ; apical 



margin with a row of minute black dots ; hind wings ashy. Common during the summer. 



• Synonymes. — Tinea straminella, Hubner. 

 Palparia striga, Haworth. 



Species 35.— Crambus cbrusellus < — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1502; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 35)— 

 Expands i an inch ; fore wings somewhat retuse, those of the males brownish, or pitchy, with two transverse, 

 biangulated, ferruginous lines towards the apex, and three black dots on the apical margin near the anal angle ; 



