ige I.EI'inOPTERA. 



fine hair. When quite full fed, the whole larva assumes o. 

 pink tint. (Condensed from Mr. Buckler's description.) 



July and August on Bhinanthus crista-galli (yellow rattle), 

 MeliimjJiirum j^i'nteiisc, and M. cristatum (cow-wheat) ; feed- 

 ing on the flowers and tender seed capsules, uniting these to 

 the stalk by a silken gallery often much covered with frass ; 

 or else uniting two sepals of a flower together so as to form 

 a hammock. 



Pupa barely three-eighths of an inch in length, moderately 

 slender ; the wing-covers long ; thorax and three upper 

 abdominal segments keeled; the sjnraeles forming tumid 

 eminences on the latter and also on the penultimate seg- 

 ment ; crem aster a taper, downward curving, flattened point, 

 slightly bifid and furnished with six minute curled bristles ; 

 colour light bright mahogany brown ; the tips of the wing- 

 covers and abdomen darker brown ; and the surface generally 

 glistening. In a tough semi-opaline silken cocoon spun 

 up in any angle, and semi-transparent. In this the larva lies 

 through the winter and assumes the pupa state in the spring. 

 (W. Buckler.) 



The moth hides during the day among its food-plants and 

 other herbage and grass, in meadows and marshy places 

 where the yellow-rattle abounds, and also in open woods 

 among the two species of cow-wheat. It is always lively 

 and ready to start up at the approach of a footstep, flying a 

 short distance to settle down in a similar spot, and before 

 early dusk may be seen fluttering in hundreds over the 

 herbage. Common in such suitable spots throughout the 

 United Kingdom, with the exception of the Shetland 

 Isles ; also in the Central and Northern portions of the 

 Continent of Europe, Ital}-, the North of Spain, Asia Minor, 

 Armenia, Siberia, and Tartary. 



7. B. terrealis, Tr. — Ex^ianse 1 to 1 i inch. Fore wings 

 long and very pointed ; shining dark grey-brown, with a 



