66 LEPIDOPTERA. 



reddish ; undersurface greenish-yellow ; central ventral line 

 3'ellow with a reddish brown line on each side. (Rev. 

 H. H. Crewe.) 



June and July on Scotch fir (Finns xylvcstris) ; when 

 young preferring the inflorescence, afterwards feeding upon 

 the leaves ; also upon larch ; and in confinement feeding 

 readily upon juniper and cypress. 



Pupa slender, pale red-brown ; dorsal region and the wing 

 cases, which lean together, darker. (Hofmann.) In a thin 

 cocoon in the ground or under the bark of a tree. In this 

 condition during the winter. 



The moth sits in the daytime usually upon the trunk of a 

 fir tree, and often at a considerable height. If disturbed 

 it flutters hastily awaj- and usually to the ground. It flies 

 about the trees at late dusk, but as may be expected, is not 

 often captured at that time. Almost or quite restricted to 

 woods of Scotch fir, and never noticed in any abundance, yet 

 to be found in such suitable localities throughout England 

 from Cornwall to Northumberland. In Wales it has been 

 taken in Glamorganshire. In Scotland recorded from 

 Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, Clydesdale, Midlothian, Aber- 

 deenshire and Kincardineshire, and abundant in Perthshire. 

 In Ireland it seems to have been noticed only in Galway, 

 Tyrone and Derry. Abroad its range is not very wide, but it 

 is found in Holland, Belgium, Germany, Livonia and Finland, 

 and possibly in Spain. 



15. E. constrictata, Grii.; distinctaria, M.S. — Ex-. 



pause I to I inch (18-21 m.m.). Fore wings grey-white, 

 with numerous slender curved grey transverse lines, and 

 near the hind margin a broader similar stripe, all faint and 

 delicate ; discal spot a distinct upright black streak. Hind 

 wings very similar. 



Antennte of the male simple, thickly ciliated, dull brown ; 

 palpi not very short, purplish-black ; face rather oblique. 



