i6o LEPIDOPTERA. 



April and the beginning of May, and a second generation 

 at the end of June, on Ononis spinosa (restharrow). 

 (Hofmann.) 



Pupa greenish-yellow with brown wing covers. In an 

 -open cocoon of white silk. (Hofmann.) 



The moth hides during the day in the thick beds of its 

 food-plants, the common and spiny restharrow ; and may be 

 disturbed by the footsteps of any person so fortunate as to 

 discover a locality in which it exists. Its flight is rather 

 dull and heavy. Either a very rare inhabitant of the coast 

 •of Kent or an occasional migrant thereto ; the number of 

 known British specimens not as yet exceeding six, or seven. 

 The first was captured upon Folkestone Warren on July 18, 

 1866, by Mr. Bernard Piffard, and is now in the collection 

 of the late Mr. H. Doubleday in Bethnal Green Museum. 

 The others seem to have occurred at intervals, two being 

 captured by Mr. F. 0. Standish in 1869 ; another was taken 

 in 1871 by Mr. W. Purdey, all at the same spot, and there 

 have been, I believe, one or two more. Most of these are 

 now in the collection of Mr. Sydney Webb, at Dover. So 

 far as I can ascertain no specimen has been found in these 

 islands outside the county of Kent. 



Abroad its range extends through Germany, Switzerland, 

 Italy, Spain, Dalmatia, Greece, Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, 

 and Cyprus. 



Group 5. PYBALIDINA. 



A group composed of several families, in some respects 

 rather distinctly and sharply defined ; in part running in 

 some degree parallel with the Noctuina and Geometrina, but 

 elsewhere diverging into a somewhat close relationship with 

 portions of the Tineina, 



Antennas in the vast majority of species threadlike and 

 simple, though in some genera tufted, knotted, or dilated at 



