loo LEPIDOPTERA. 



September and October, ou Amjdku si/hrstrix, and occa- 

 sionally upou llrrddiiiin uphuui/ijliiOH ; feeding on the flowers 

 and seeds ; resting during the day underneath the secondary 

 umbels. 



Pupa rather stout, eye-covers shining and rather prominent ; 

 limb and antenna-covers compact, the latter slightlj- barred 

 with channels at the joints ; wing-covers thickened at the 

 margins, the nervures well indicated, the surface glossy but 

 minutely wrinkled, pale olive-green and very transparent ; 

 back of the thorax ornamented with several flattened 

 tubercles, pale olive ; dorsal and abdominal segments faintly 

 pitted, but smooth and strongly ridged at the hinder edge, 

 yellowish-red ; cremaster triangular, tipped with a tuft of 

 short hooked bristles. In a tough cocoon of silk and earth 

 or rubbish, in or on the ground. 



In this condition through the winter. 



The moth is rarely seen at large, or if seen is not recognised, 

 since its first gloss and freshness become very quickly impaired 

 by flight. Indeed, its distinguishing characters are scarcely 

 ever reliably discernible in a captured specimen. Doubtless 

 it hides among herbage near or among its food-plants. It 

 was only discovered here by accident about the year 1859, 

 by the Revs. H. H. Crewe and Joseph Greene, when searching 

 for another species, and has not since been found in any 

 large numbers nor to have a wide distribution. The records 

 are almost, if not quite, invariably of the finding of the larva, 

 and this has occurred in Sussex, Surrey, Dorset, and Devon 

 in the South of Euglaud ; also in Herefordshire, Worcester- 

 shire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire. Yorkshire, 

 and Lancashire. I find no record for Wales, but it is recorded 

 from Argyleshire in Scotland, and in Ireland it seems to 

 have been found at Howth, near Dublin, and in Cork County. 

 Abroad^its range is either small or very little known, appa- 

 rently extending only to Holland, Germany, and Switzerland. 



