U)2 LEI'IDOl'TERA. 



ill its liiberuaculuin, spinuing short galleries so as tt) reach 

 the tender leaves, and eating their entire substance. 



I'urA long, tapering gradually to the tail, the creinaster 

 being a long spike with a square end, set with six long curled 

 spines ; the skin glossy and shining, curiously ornamented 

 with tufts of hair ; on the back of each segment, just in the 

 region of the subdorsal lines, there is a pair of tubercles, 

 each set with a whorl of eight or ten harsh-looking waved 

 and curled hairs ; three of the anterior segments bear in 

 addition each a pair of rather long transverse ridges behind 

 these tubercles, and closely set with shorter curled bristles ; 

 and on the sides of the two segments next the head there is 

 a group of three or four small spine-bearing tubercles; below 

 the spiracles the abdomen is ornamented with tubercles bear- 

 ing fewer and shorter bristles than those on the back ; general 

 colour pale chestnut-brown ; the wing-cases and some patches 

 on the back of the front segments darker brown ; the bristles, 

 which under a lens look like cocoa-nut fibre, are light brown. 

 Altogether a most singular pupa. In a cocoon of regular 

 figure, four-fifths of an inch long, of a very fine gauzy texture, 

 made of white silk. (Rev. J. Hellins.) 



The moth hides duiiu" the day in bushes, amongr herbajre, 

 or in hedges, and may be trodden up, or disturbed with the 

 beating stick. It flies of its own accord at early dusk, and 

 has been found to suck the honey from flowers, including 

 those of clematis. Its usual haunts are sheltered spots on 

 chalk hills and downs, and in the openings of beech-woods, 

 and in such spots it is sometimes common. Of local distri- 

 bution in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Dorset, Somerset. 

 Gloucestershire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Herts aud Worcester- 

 shire ; also taken rarely in Norfolk. Except a record (un- 

 confirmed) of its capture at Dolgelly, North Wales, I know 

 of no other localities in the United Kingdom. Abroad it is 

 found in most parts of Central aud Southern Europe, 



