I. BuPALUS. Palpi sJiorty hirsute : maxillcE longish : rays of 

 antennce long. 



1. piniarius-Zfrnw. — Don. 10. p/. 336. (5^. — Wood, pi. 18./. 



4.53. (J. ? . — Tiliaria Linn. ? . 



The larvae of this species, which hatch at the end of May, 

 and are found until the end of October, have killed immense 

 numbers of the Scotch fir, in a forest in the neighbourhood of 

 Strasbourg, by devouring the leaves. 



Discovered by my brother in Pine groves at Benacre, 

 Suffolk, in June : the females are very rare and secrete them- 

 selves in the grass, and when they alight they carry their 

 wings erect. It has been found I believe in Birch-wood, also 

 at Ramsdown, Hants, by Mr. Dale, and it is abundant in 

 Scotland. It is remarkable that the rays of the antennae are 

 longer in the northern than they are in the southern specimens. 



II. Palpi scaly ^ a little porrected : maxillce longish : rays of 



antemice long. 



2. ericetarius Vill. — Wood, pi. \ 8./457.(?. — plumistriaria J^u^. 

 July, I took several males amongst heath at Black-gang- 

 chine : both sexes abundant the 4th August on heaths, Rams- 

 down and all round Heron Court, also on Urisbeg Moun- 

 tain, Connemara, but very much worn^ the 1st August; Sep- 

 tember in various parts of Surrey. 



III. M^siA Step. Palpi short a7id scaly : maxilla short : rays 



of antennce short. 



3. favillacearia Hiib. — Curt. B. E. pi. 33. S' ? • — mediopunc- 

 taria Don. 



Hubner appears to have placed masculine antennae on his 

 fig. 140. pi. 26., which is the female of his G. favillacearia. 

 This beautiful species was first noticed, I believe, by Harris 

 in his Aurelian, as an inhabitant of our island ; it was subse- 

 quently taken in Yorkshire by Mr. Haworth, and latterly by 

 Mr. Dale in great beauty and abundance on West Parley 

 heath, near Ringwood, and Merry-town heath, Hants, and 

 during a visit to that county he was so obliging as to point 

 out the locality to me. The sexes are found together, but the 

 female is rare, from the middle of May to the middle of July 

 on heaths, resting where the turf has been pared off, espe- 

 cially in moist situations : from the moth being so different in 

 colour to the black peat it would be easily detected, were it 

 not for its strong resemblance to the pale, broken pebbles scat- 

 tered about ; and it is perhaps the most easy of all insects to 

 capture, for nothing apparently will induce it to fly during 

 the day : late in the evening I have taken the males flying 

 very sluggishly near Lyndhurst. It has also been observed 

 in Scotland and near Manchester. 



The plant figured is Tormentilla crecta. Common or Offi- 

 cinal Tormentil, which was growing where the moths were 

 taken. 



