8o LEPIDOPTERA. 



Pi'PA short and stout, the head very blunt, thoracic portion 

 thin-skinned, yellowish-green ; the wing-covers dark green, 

 and with the limb covers very glossy and almost without 

 sculpture ; dorsal segments sparingly pitted, yellowish 

 green ; abdominal segments red-brown, also rather sparingly 

 pitted, the hinder margin all smooth and edged b}' a fine 

 suture ; abdominal segment swollen at the base, then conical, 

 and thecremaster similarly conical, furnished at the tip with 

 hooked bristles. In a silken cocoon among rubbish on or in 

 the ground. 



The winter is passed in this condition. 



The moth doubtless hides among the herbage about its 

 food plants, but it is very seldom seen, and almost all our 

 specimens are obtained by rearing. 



Although recognised and named by Haworth, it became so- 

 completely overlooked that no notice was taken of it in Mr. 

 Stainton's " i\Ianual " ; but in a very few years later — about 

 1860 — it was re-discovered, being then regarded only as the 

 species recently named tripnncfaria by Herrich-Schaffer. 

 Shortly after it was recognised as Haworth"s lost species. 

 It certainly is widely distributed here, and not very un- 

 common, tliough so seldom seen. In the larva state it has 

 been found in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Dorset, Devon, 

 Somerset, Berks, Bedfordshire, the Eastern Counties to 

 Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, 

 Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lanca- 

 shire, Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland. In Wales 

 Mr. Vivian took it at Port Talbot, and I found it in 

 Pembrokeshire, but not commonly. In Scotland it has been 

 obtained in ^Midlothian and Aberdeenshire ; in Ireland in 

 Cork and Sligo ; but in both countries further investigation 

 as to its wider range is desirable. Abroad its range is not 

 yet ascertained, and it seems only to be recorded from- 

 HoUand and Germany. 



