114 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Lakva slender, taperiug toward the head ; general colour 

 reddisb-brown or dusky olive ; down the middle of the back 

 is a chain of dirty green lozenge-shaped spots, becoming con- 

 fluent on the anterior and anal segments ; spiracular line 

 waved, pale yellow, occasionally interrupted with black ; 

 segmental divisions orange ; whole body studded with minute 

 white tubercles and sparingly clothed with short whitish hairs. 

 (Rev. H. H. Crewe.) 



June and July, and a second generation in August and 

 September ; on hawthorn, willow, bramble, raspberry, and 

 whortleberry, feeding on the leaves, which it will even eat when 

 withered. Also upon ragwort, golden-rod, bladder-campion, 

 orpine, and other low growing plants, and garden weeds. 



Pupa slender and delicate ; head, thorax, and wing-cases 

 olive-green; abdomen reddish, sharply pointed. In an earthen 

 cocoon in the ground. (H. H. C.) 



The winter is passed in this condition. 



The moth is almost constantly in evidence during the 

 summer, sitting flatly pressed upon doors, window-frames, 

 walls,fences and palings,oron any other objects about gardens, 

 houses, and road sides, in the daytime ; or fluttering lazily 

 out of any bush that is disturbed ; sitting at night on the 

 glass of a lighted window, or very often, even in numbers, on 

 that of a gas-lamp ; or buzzing obscurely along hedges and 

 about bushes in the dusk. It is abundant in London 

 gardens, and in hedges and gardens everywhere in England, 

 Wales, and Ireland, and is also found in the southern portion 

 of Scotland to the Clyde A'allej^ Aberdeen, Moray, and the 

 Hebrides. Abroad it inhabits Central Europe, Northern 

 Italy, Corsica, Livonia, Finland and Southern Russia, 



33. E. expallidata, Gn. — Expanse | to 1 inch. Fore 

 wings broad, rounded behind, shining whitish-brown; trans- 

 verse lines hai-dly perceptible ; discal spot large, ovate, 



