276 IKPTDOPTKRA. 



I'l'PA iindescribed. 



The moth sits by day about stables, aud out buildings 

 which are thatched, on old palings, or among dead sticks 

 and other lumber ; but especially loves to hide in a dense 

 hedge in which are entangled abundance of dead leaves. In 

 such a hedge of elm-bushes I have found it in plenty, sitting 

 low down in the thickest portions and when beaten out, 

 hovering lazily close to the hedge and concealing itself again 

 as quickly as possible. At night it comes readily to gas- 

 lamps and lighted windows, aud may at once be known, 

 even from a distance, since it settles down with wings so 

 widely spread out flat and pushed forward, that it appears to 

 be two-thirds of a circular disk. I know of no other species 

 which sits with fore wings so forward. It flies at dusk and 

 on in the night, and will come sometimes to the sugar spread 

 for Nodua. Especially attached to suburban gardens aud 

 lanes, but in London to be found also in squares, even to the 

 vicinity of the Old British Museum. Also to be found 

 locally in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Hants ; rarely in Dorset 

 and Devon ; in Middlesex, Herts, Bucks, Essex, Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, Cambs, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, even in 

 Yorkshire, and one specimen has been taken in Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne. I find no record for Wales, except that it was said 

 to have been taken forty years ago at Tenby, nor any for 

 Scotland or Ireland. Abroad it has a wide range, through 

 Central and Southern Europe, Western Asia ; Northern 

 Africa, and North America from new York to Georgia and 

 Missouri. 



4. P. glaucinaHs, L. — Expanse I to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings silky brownish- purple or purplish-drab with two 

 yellow transverse lines. Hind wings pale smoky-grey with 

 a transverse white line. 



Antennae simple, pale yellow ; palpi very slender, yellow- 

 brown ; head and thorax pale ochreous-brown ; abdomen 

 whitish brown. Fore wings trigonate; the apex bluntly 



