146 I.EPIDOPTEKA. 



The moth loves to sit on the trunks and branches of 

 hollies, when these grow among its food-plant, and may be 

 disturbed by a vigorous application of the beating stick. 

 When hollies are absent it hides among the whortleberry, 

 but is not readily induced, in that case, to fly, until its 

 natural time at dusk. An exceedingly local species, usually 

 confined to hill districts, and by no means following its food 

 plant everywhere ; on the other hand, usually common in its 

 favourite haunts. Plentiful on some of the wilder hills of 

 Devon and Somerset, and also found in Cornwall and 

 Worcestershire, and in abundance in Staffordshire ; said to 

 have been formerly common at Chat Moss, Lancashire — a 

 locality now destroyed. In Wales Mr. H. W. Vivian found 

 it near Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, and I took it rarely in 

 Pembrokeshire. The only record that I find in Scotland is 

 in Aberdeenshire ; but in Ireland it is abundant at Killarney 

 and elsewhere in Kerrj-, and in Cork County, and found in 

 Waterford. Wicklow, and Sligb. Abroad common in the 

 mountainous portions of Central Germany, Northern Italy, 

 Livonia, Finland, and in the Ural mountain region. 



45. E. coronata, i/((i.— Expanse | to f inch flo-lO 

 mm.). Fore wings very short and broad ; yellowish-green, 

 with a distinct black < -mark from the costa at the end of 

 the discal cell. 



Antennae of the male slender, simple, hardly visibly 

 ciliated, black-brown with paler bars at the back : palpi 

 slender but rather prominent, pale brownish-green, the tips 

 white ; head and thorax yellow-green ; abdomen pale brown 

 with a greenish shade, the basal segment barred with black 

 marbling, and the second with deeper black spots ; beyond 

 this is a minute black dot on each side of the dorsal ridge 

 on every segment ; anal tuft tightly clasped. Fore wings 

 short and very blunt ; costa decidedly arched ; apex very 

 bluntly angulated, almost rounded; hind margin rather per- ' 

 pendicular, expanded and well rounded ; dorsal margin also 



