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the sand. It pupates in a silken cocoon coated with 

 sand. 



The ground-colour of the larva is pale yellow ; head 

 pale chestnut; dorsal liue faint, reddish; there arc 

 also two faint reddish transverse bars on the back of 

 each segment ; the plates on the second and anal seg- 

 ments are polished ; spiracles of the ground-colour. A 

 few pale hairs occur on the tubercles, also at the 

 extremities of the larva. E. M. M. xi. 186. 



Epischnia farrella. Curt, 

 lafawyella, Constant. 

 (Plate 10. fig. 4.) 

 Loc. Yarmouth (sandhills), Lowestoft, Deal. 



This species occurs in July, on sandhills. 

 The larva is said to feed, in a sand-eovered gallery, 

 on Anthyllis vulneraria. 



Ilithyia semirubella. Scop. 



canit'lla, L. 



(Plate 10. fig. 5.) 



Loc. Exmouth, Horning, Folkestone, Isle of Wight, 

 Dover, Box Hill, Sevenoaks, 



Var. sanguinella, Hb., is without the pale costal 

 streak. 



The larva feeds in a slight web on Lotus corniculatus, 



and spins a cocoon amongst its food after hybernation. 



The ground-colour of the larva is bronzy black ; the 



