42 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Pupa rather slender, the tongue-case long, limb-covers 

 sculptured with cross strije ; wing-covers faintly and irregu- 

 larly wrinkled or roughened, yet very glossy, the uervures 

 raised ; dorsal and abdominal segments narrowly pitted, the 

 smooth margins rather broad ; anal segment fully rounded ; 

 cremaster conical aud running to a rather long pointed 

 spike; wing-covers and front portion light gi-een ; dorsal 

 and abdominal regions light brown ; cremaster deeper 

 brown. In a soft cocoon of silk and earth, in the ground. 



In this condition through the winter ; sometimes through 

 two winters. 



The moth sits during the day on the ground or on stones 

 or rocks, keeping almost always among its food plant, and is 

 quite unwilling to Hy at this time. At dusk it flies over the 

 foxgloves and is then easily captured. It has also been 

 taken at light. Formerly an inhabitant of the out- 

 skirts of London, but now not to be found there, and 

 the foxgloves of the parks show no sign of its presence. 

 Otherwise to be found wherever these handsome plants 

 abound throughout England to Yorkshire in the east and to 

 Cumberland in the west ; probably also throughout Wales, 

 though I only know of its occurrence in the South. In 

 Scotland it has a wide range, through the Solway district, 

 Ayrshire, aud other parts of the Clyde Valley ; Perthshire, 

 where it attains au elevation of upwards of 600 feet on the 

 mountains; and from the districts of the Forth and Dee, to 

 Argyle, Sutherlandshire ; also in the Orkneys and Shetlands. 

 In Ireland it has probably the distribution of its food plant, 

 and is known to occur in the County Dublin, in Cork, 

 Kerry, Galway, Sligo, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Tyrone, 

 Donegal, and Derry. Its range abroad is small — Spain, 

 Central and Western France, and Central and East Ger- 

 many. 



6. E. linariata, Schifi. — Expanse finch (18 to 20 mm.). 

 Fore wings blunt, tawny-white clouded with fawn colour; 



