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spiracular line interrupted with yellow patches; under- 

 sarface greenish-white; ventral segmental divisions white. 

 <Rev. H. H. Crewe.) 



August and September ; on the flowers of Ccntauna nigra, 

 Knautia arvensis, Verhascum tluqjsus and other plants of the 

 same genera, and of Chrysanthemum, Ilelianthemum, Scahiosa, 

 Gentiana, Hyparicum, Galium,, Hieraciutn, Ajxirgia, Cirsiwm, 

 lihina iithus, Foh/gonum, Galcopsi><, and many others ; also in 

 the North upon heath, sallow and Ard<is/i/ph//los uva-ursi. 



Pupa. Thorax and wing-cases goldeu-yellow, suffused 

 with red ; abdominal segments and tip red. In an earthen 

 ■cocoon, in the ground. (H. H. C.) 



The winter is passed in this condition. 



The moth iu the South frequents open woods and wood- 

 paths, the rough ground near, and the borders of heaths, but 

 usually is not very common ; in the North the typical form 

 still frequents woody situations ; but the var. callunaria is 

 usually to be found on heaths and moors. It hides among 

 herbage near the ground and is readily disturbed by a passing 

 footstep iu sunny weather. At dusk it flies of its own 

 accord. It is taken, not too commonly, in Kent, Sussex, 

 Surrey, Hants, Dorset, Cornwall, Bucks. Middlesex, the 

 Eastern Counties, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcester- 

 shire, Warwickshire. Leicestershire, Cheshire, Lancashire, 

 Yorkshire, Durham, Westmoreland, Cumberland, and North- 

 umberland ; in Wales in Flintshire and Glamorganshire ; in 

 Scotland, near Edinburgh, in Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, 

 Wigtounshire, Clydesdale, Argyle, Perthshire, Inverness, 

 Aberdeenshire, Sutherlandshire, and the Hebrides and 

 'Orkneys, and iu the extreme form — var. curzoni — in the 

 Shetlands. In Ireland in typical form or mixed varieties — 

 the type having been found by Colonel Partridge so far north 

 ^s Enniskillen — in Wicklow, Galway, Dublin, Leitrim. Sligo, 

 Eermanagh, Donegal, Armagh, Tyrone, Derry, Antrim, and in 



