242 [April, 



Wilkinson's deacription is good, except that he does not remark 

 the length of fore-wings, in which this species closely approximates 

 to icte7'icana. 



It is common in some parts of the western coast, particularly on 

 the mountain limestone of Pembrokeshire, attaining a larger size and 

 much greater depth and distinctness of marking, than specimens from 

 the chalk districts of the south coast. But this species has already 

 been remarked upon (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xii, p. 230), and repetition 

 is unnecessary. Its larva is over half-an-ineh long, sluggish, stout, 

 tapering at each extremity, very pale greenish-grey, yellowish beneath, 

 and semi-transparent ; spots small, black, head and plates yellowish- 

 brown. Drawing together the ray-florets of Chrysanthemum leucanthe- 

 inu7n, in June, and feeding on the disc-florets and seeds. Also in 

 blossoms of Apargia hispida abundantly, and more rarely in those of 

 Sypochceris radicata, Aster tripoliiim, and Sanunciiliis hidhosus. In 

 the absence of suitable flowers on the sea-cliffs, it is quite at home on 

 the tops of Teucrium scorodonia and Senecio erucifoUus, drawing to- 

 gether the terminjii leaves and eating out the heart. "When feeding 

 in the flowers of oxeye and Apargia it folds down the ray-florets 

 regularly and neatly, so as to form a comfortable, and also a conspicuous, 

 habitation. The pupa is blackish-brown, often spun up in the flower, 

 and the moth emerges in July. 



Mr. Doubleday seems to have suppressed conspersana, Dough, in 

 his list, because there is a conspersana in the genus Teras (a synonym 

 oiferrugana), and substituted perterana, Gn., an unpublished name. 

 I think that there is no reason for this. 



suljectana, Gn. — Fore-wing 4 lines by 1^, costa very little arched, 

 nearly straight beyond the middle, hind-margin rather oblique. The 

 most abundant species of the genus. Generally, its ground-colour is 

 pale and very little suffused with grey scales, so that the markings 

 are usually distinct. It is constantly mixed with virgaureana, but has 

 narrower and more pointed wings, and a straighter costa. 



Its larva varies a good deal, partly, no doubt, at different ages. 

 Mr. Machin has reared it from a brownish-black larva on the common 

 plantain, and others on sorrel and chickweed. Mr. Sang used to find 

 it at Darlington feeding on Lotus and other vetches. I have had larvae ; 

 cylindrical, except that they were slightly tapering at the ends, smoky- 

 brown, with brown head and black plates. In blossoms of Banunculus 

 acris and hulbosus, drawing together the petals and feeding on them 

 and the anthers in June ; ako smoky-black spots slightly paler, head 



