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uniform width throughout ; head glossy black, with the 

 lobes rounded ; dorsal plate also glossy, chocolate-brown ; 

 body cylindrical, segments clearly defined, the third, fourth, 

 and fifth have several transverse depressions which give 

 them a wrinkled appearance ; the remaining segments have 

 each one transverse depression ; the skin altogether has a 

 tough appearance ; in one form it is dirty smoky black, with 

 the dorsal line indistinct but perfectly black ; the anal seg- 

 ment pale brown ; undersurface and prolegs paler smoky 

 black with a greenish tinge, and the legs black ; in another 

 the ground colour is pale chocolate-brown strongly suffused 

 on the anterior segments with dirty smoke-colour ; the 

 dorsal plate edged in front with brown, and the side tubercles 

 and spiracles smoke-colour ; the ventral surface and prolegs 

 pale chocolate-brown, with a greenish tinge ; the legs, with 

 the thoracic segments, black. (Ct. T. Porritt.) 



June (but very probably from the previous autumn) on 

 Hypnum cupressiforjiie and other mosses growing upon 

 damp ground, living completely hidden in the moss but 

 noticeable from patches of excrement thrown above and 

 kept together by a few silken threads. Herr Anton Schmid 

 found it in tube-shaped webs under plants of Lotus 

 oorniculatus, the flowers and leaves having apparently been 

 eaten. 



Pupa from one half to five-eighths of an inch long ; of 

 ordinary shape and with all the parts clearly defined ; highly 

 polished, the colour rich brown, the wing-cases bright yellow 

 margined with brown ; eye-cases and abdominal point dark 

 chocolate-brown. In a cocoon, shaped somewhat like that 

 of a Zygsena, formed of firmly spun white silk among the 

 moss. (G. T. Porritt.) 



The male moth is lively in the afternoon on warm days, 

 flying over the grass of chalk hills and downs, extensive 

 parks, and especially rough grassy places and salt marshes 

 along the sea-coast ; and it certainly flies again in the 



