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very indistinct cluslvy spots becoming confluent in a black 

 line at the anal segment, and bordered by an interruj^ted 

 black line ; on each side is a row of oblique tubercular flesh- 

 coloured stripes ; anterior feet black. 



March and April, sometimes till the beginning of May, in 

 the catkins of sallow {i^aR,- caprcm, S. cinerea, and others), 

 hiding so completely in the catkins that these may be shaken 

 off the sallow bush in abundance, and the moths reared 

 therefrom, without a single larva being observed. 



Plpa rather slender, glossy, eye-covers prominent, blackish, 

 the wing and limb-covers very smooth, pale golden yellow or 

 yellow-brown, faintly tinged with green ; dorsal and abdo- 

 mmal segments very minutely and sparinglv pitted on the 

 anterior portion of each ; the hinder smooth and rather 

 ridged, the whole more dusky yellow-brown; cremaster 

 narrowly conical and tipped with minute hooked bristles. 

 In a slight cocoon among the fallen catkins or other rubbish 

 on the ground. 



The winter is passed in the egg-state. 



The moth hides itself in and under sallow-bushes in the 

 daytime, and may sometimes be disturbed from them by 

 the beating-stick, though it is very unwilling to move 

 more often by carefully dividing and investigatino- the 

 thick growth of coarse grasses and herbage underneath, 

 it flies at late dusk and may then be captured, since it 

 keeps round about the same bushes, yet from its activity 

 at that time, and its very dull colour, is bv no means 

 easy to box. Not very difficult, however, t'o rear from 

 the catkins. Very common in the fens of Norfolk and 

 Cambridgeshire, and apparently to be found in suitable 

 marshy spots throughout England, from Devon to Northum- 

 berland ; also found in Monmouthshire and Glamorgan- 

 shire m Wales. In Scotland in Roxburghshire and oUaer 

 southern districts, in Dumbartonshire, Aberdeenshire Perth- 

 shire, Morjy, and intermediate places. In Ireland it is 



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