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eiipatoria ; but when well grown preferring leaves wliicli are 

 more discoloured and softened with blotches of incipient 

 decay, ultimately fallen and decaying leaves, among which 

 it passes the winter. In confinement a confirmed cannibal. 



Plta very much of ordinary form ; the head- and eye-covers 

 well developed ; the thorax, with distinct subdivisions, is 

 slightly keeled ; the wing-covers slant ofi' toward the ends 

 of the antenniv? and leg-cases, which are long ; the spiracles 

 are rather promiueut, especially on the twelfth segment ; 

 abdominal segment a little punctate, the tip rather pro- 

 longed, rounded, and furnished with two curly-topped 

 bristles, surrounded by four others of shorter lengths : colour, 

 dark mahogany brown, glossy, and approaching to black at 

 the anal tip. In a cocoon of oval figure, of greyish-drab 

 silk and earth, or leaf-i'efuse, on the earth, attached to the 

 underside of a dead leaf. (W. I^uckler.) 



The moth hides during the daj^ among stunted bushes, 

 especially oak bushes, in heathy places, or among bracken 

 fern, or furze, and other undergrowth on sea-sandhills ; or,- 

 indeed, about hedges and bushes in waste j)laces generally ; 

 sometimes — as in the London suburbs — it makes itself at 

 home in gardens, hiding in the bushes, or even sitting upon 

 the wooden palings. It is restless, and files willingly 

 enough when disturbed, but only to seek a similar hiding" 

 ])lace near by. When at rest on a fence its long legs are 

 extended so that it hangs back at such an angle as to present 

 an edge to the intruder and to be almost invisible. It flies 

 naturally at dusk and into the night, and will come occa-- 

 sionally to light. It occurs every year in my own garden, 

 and is rather common in the outer portions of the southern 

 suburbs of London, and in all the more Southern Counties, ■ 

 except perhaps Cornwall, also in the Eastern Counties to 

 Norfolk, and in Middlesex, Herts, Bucks, and Gloucester- 

 shire. With the exception of a single record in Derbyshire, 

 it seems to be known no further north ; and in Wales the 



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