-76 LEPIDOPTERA. 



'being dark purplish-brown, or purplish-grey, or dull green, 

 but in all cases with the trigoaate dorsal dark stripes, the 

 oblique stripes yellow or white, and these last margined 

 beneath with a distinct blackish dash. 



June, and as a second generation in August, yeptember, and 

 "October, on the blossoms of golden-rod {Solidago virgavrea), 

 ragwort, and millefoil ; Mr. Buckler says also on flowers of 

 heather. 



Pupa very different from those of allied species ; thorax 

 yellowish-green, with a very accurately and distinctly defined 

 border, and looking almost as though set in a frame. When 

 •examined with a glass some singular dark spots and mark- 

 ings are seen, which give it very much the appearance of a 

 ■skull. The abdomen is yellowish-red, with two indistinct, 

 interrupted, dorsal, and two, more distinct, subdorsal dusky 

 lines ; wing cases yellowish-olive streaked with dusky mark- 

 ings, and haying the nervures very prominent. (Rev. H. H. 

 Crewe.) 



In a slightly spun earthen cocoon. 



In this condition through the winter. 



The moth hides during the day among its food-plants and 

 other low-growing herbage, and may occasionally be disturbed 

 thence and captured, but it is so obscure in its markings and 

 appearance that unless quite fine and fresh it can scarcely be 

 distinguished from some of the allied species. It flies over 

 the same plants at dusk and is then easily captured, but 

 since the larva is readily found on composite blossoms, the 

 Tiiore satisfactoiy plan is to rear it and so avoid the perplex- 

 ing results of wear and tear. It was formerly known here 

 under the name of E. piinpindlatn, and was so described by 

 Mr. Stainton in bis " Manual," but in the year 1859 this 

 error was discovered and pointed out by the Eev. H. Harper 

 Crewe, and in consequence it received, in Mr. Newman's 

 " British Moths," the present name. It is somewhat local, 

 -though probably more widely distributed than we are at 



