2 24 LEI'WOrrERA. 



uor prolegs have three similar transverse spots. (G. T. 

 Porritt.) 



Before spinning up it becomes of a pale yellow colour. 



April, May, and June, on ground elder, nettle, hop, dog's- 

 mercury, woundwort, dock, Lycltais dioka,Gcdcohdolun luteuni, 

 and other herbaceous plants ; drawing together a leaf, or 

 two leaves, which it joins with silk, and living therein. 

 There seems to be no evidence as to the condition in which 

 the winter is passed — whether as a young larva or in the 

 egg- 



Pupa rather slender and attenuated behind ; wing-cases 

 long and well defined ; eye-covers also distinct, and there is 

 a sharply defined ridge along the thorax ; colour of these 

 portions dark chocolate-brown ; of the underside of the 

 abdomen paler brown ; and of the divisions yellow. In a 

 silken cocoon between the leaves used as a larval habitation. 

 (G. T. Porritt.) 



The moth usually hides in the hedges and bushes under 

 which it has fed as a larva, and is easily beaten or shaken 

 out, when it buzzes away to a similar hiding-place, often 

 alighting on a leaf, quite visibly, before again entering 

 the hedge. Exceedingly common throughout England and 

 Ireland, and doubtless Wales — though there so nearly dis- 

 regarded that I find only my own record in Pembrokeshire, 

 and Mr. Day's that it is generally common in North Wales ; 

 found also in the South of Scotland to Edinburgh and the 

 Clyde Valley ; but beyond this records appear to be wanting. 

 Abroad it seems to be restricted to Centi-al Europe, Livonia, 

 Finland, and Armenia. 



19. B. priinalis, Schiff. — Expanse f to 1 inch. Fore 

 wings broad, blunt, dark grej'-brown with obscurely darker 

 stigmata and lines. Hind wings pale grey -brown. 



Antennas of the male simple, shining, brown ; palpi rather 

 slender, porrected, dark-brown ; head and collar reddish- 



