LARENTID^—EUJ'ITHECIA. 6i 



by Mr. H. Miller, and in his collection, is singularly 

 pretty, the brownish-white ground colour very clear and pale, 

 and all the markings very sharply defined. 

 On the wing in May and June. 



Laeva long, slender, and tapering considerably toward 

 the head, which is rounded, red-brown ; general colour 

 orange-red or dull ochreous-green ; dorsal line dusky-olive 

 often only apparent on the anterior segments ; subdorsal 

 lines also dusky-olive ; spiracular lines yellow ; segmental 

 divisions orange-colour ; central ventral line yellowish. (Rev. 

 H. H. Crewe.) 



June and beginning of July on spruce fir (Pimis ahies). 

 It does not cling so tightly to its food plant as some of its 

 allies, and may be beaten out into an inverted umbrella. 



Pupa slender and delicate, pale ochreous-yellow ; the eye- 

 covers black and prominent ; upper edge of wing-cases 

 bordered by two black spots; lower edge by a slender 

 blackish line. In a slight earthen cocoon, in the ground 

 (Rev. H. H. Crewe.) 



The winter is passed in this condition. 



The moth hides during the day in spruce fir trees, from 

 which it may be disturbed by the beating stick and readily 

 captured. Its time of natural flight is late dusk or night. 

 An exceedingly local species, but sometimes common in its 

 very restricted localities. Formerly all our specimens, or 

 nearly so, were obtained in or near the Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury's park at West Wickham, Kent, but it is now found 

 equally freely in the New Forest, Hants, and elsewhere in 

 these two counties ; also in Surrey and Devon ; and rarely 

 in Wilts and Suffolk. So far as I know this is the extent of 

 its range in these Islands. Abroad it is found throughout 

 Central Europe, the temperate portioris of Northern Europe, 

 Northern Italy and Greece. 



