i82 LEl'IDOPTEh'A. 



summer. This, however, is a critical stage — fatal to almost 

 all larva; fed in confinement. 



This moth differs a little in habits from the two preceding 

 species, not possessing their swiftness nor the dazzling 

 appearance vehich so greatly conceals their Hight. It flies 

 over its food plant in the daytime with a sort of spinning 

 motion which is curious and quite characteristic, and 

 frequents the open spaces in woods of undergrowth, the 

 rides of large woods and their borders, and sometimes may 

 be found on the broken crumbling cliffs of the coast. 

 Tolerably common in the woods of Kent, Sussex, Surrey, 

 Hants, Devon, Essex, Suffolk, Herts, Bucks, Oxfordshire, 

 Herefordshire, Worcestershire. Xoi'th Lancashire, and West- 

 moreland ; very local in Yorkshire ; and Mr. J. E. Robson 

 reports the occurrence of two specimens in Northumberland in 

 1898. In North Wales it is to be found on some of the hill- 

 sides in Carnarvon and Denbigh ; has been taken in Mont- 

 gomeryshire, and I have seen it on the sea-cliffs of Pem- 

 brokeshire. In Scotland it api^ears to be confined to Argyle, 

 and the Islands of Skye and iluU ; and in Ireland to Galway 

 and Kerry. Abroad it has a considerable range through 

 Central and Northern Europe, the South of France, Northern 

 Italy, Armenia, Bithynia and Tartary, 



Cenus :3, BOTYS. 



Antennse simple ; palpi pointed, porrected ; head rough 

 and rather flattened ; thorax thin ; abdomen long and very 

 slender, not banded ; fore wings long, pointed, narrowly 

 trigonate ; hind wings rather ample ; the discal cell short 

 aud the cross-bar curved; legs long, not tufted. 



Larvae rather attenuated at each extremity, semitrans- 

 parent ; feeding usually within rolled leaves. 

 An attempt at tabulation may be useful : 



