igS LEl'lDOPJERA. 



a few scattered short hairs ; head and anal segment pale 

 yellovvish-brovvu ; mandibles and a few spots ou the lobes 

 ■darker brown ; general colour rich reddish-piuk ; dorsal 

 stripe broad, deeper in colour anil conspicuous; no other 

 particular markings, but tiie sides are variegated a little with 

 a darker shade of the ground colour ; ventral surface a little 

 paler ; each proleg tipped on the outside with a black 

 dot. (G. T. Porritt.) This description was made from a 

 full-grown larva wliich had assumed the full adult colouring. 

 Other observers describe it as '■pale-green" or "white- 

 green," and Frejer says that it has light green dorsal and 

 spiracular stripes, and white raised dots. Doubtless younger 

 larvae are, in these cases, referred to, 



July to September on Solidayo rirgaurea (golden rod), 

 feeding on the leaves, and living in a loose silken web on 

 the underside of a leaf; from its ravages the plant some- 

 tinr-.es becomes mucJi disfigured. 



Pt'PA apparently undescribed ; in a strong silken cocoon 

 of a yellowish-white colour in some corner, or among moss. 

 In this the larva remains unchanged, having faded to a 

 creamy white colour, until May, before the pupa-state is 

 assumed. 



A very local species, not to be found in the woods in 

 which its food-plant is often so common, but usually con- 

 fined to hill and mountain sides or rocky limestone districts, 

 extending to 300 feet above sea level. Here it hides 

 among herbage and the bushes near its food, and may be 

 disturbed by the beating stick, or trodden up. At dusk it 

 flies of its own accord. Found very locally in Xorth Devon 

 and Cornwall ; and in Cheshire, North Lancashire, York- 

 shire and Westmoreland. Also in various parts of North 

 Wa'es, as Llauferris, Beddgelert and elsewhere in the 

 Suowdon district ; in Denbighshire, Flintshire, and rarelj' 

 on the coast of Pembrokeshire in South Wales. In 

 Scotland in Kirkcudbrightshire and Argyle, also in Fife, 



