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sometimes on tbe young shoots, eating into an nuexpanded 

 bud from the side, and hidden by drawing down a leaf ; 

 when the blossom is open dj-awing together the petals. It 

 has also been found among cultivated roses in gardens. 



Pupa pale green ; wing cases whitish ; eye, antenna and 

 leg-cases, also the edging of the wing-cases, smoky black. 

 (G. T. Porritt.) Attached to the shoot or bunch of buds 

 on which the larva has fed, hanging loosely from a small 

 tuft of silk. This pupa is cuiiously sprinkled with fine 

 hairs or long bristles, especially on the dorsal surface. 



The moth is very sluggish and can seldom be induced to 

 fly in the daylight. If disturbed it falls down into the 

 thicker parts of its favourite rose-bush, when a verj- quick 

 eye is requisite for its discovery. It flies at night, and has 

 been taken at a strong liglit. Formerly known as a rare 

 British siDecies, to be found occasionally in Kent and Middle- 

 sex, but about the year 1872 it was discovered to be tolerably 

 common in some parts of the large woods at Chattenden, 

 North Kent ; the larva was also found freely, and consider- 

 able numbers were reared, so that our cabinets became in 

 some degree supplied. After a few years shocking accounts 

 were received of the greed of certain collectors, accounts of 

 the stripping of vast numbers of rose-bushes of every hud, 

 and of the material collected being carried away by sacksful. 

 J3y these means the insect seems to have become extermi- 

 nated in that locality, and is again a comparative rarity, 

 though still known to exist in a few other localities. So far 

 as I am aware it is confined, with us, to the counties of 

 Kent, Middlesex, Herts, and Essex. Abroad it is found 

 throughout Southern and Central Europe, except Holland, 

 also in Sweden, Finland, Livonia, Bithynia, and Armenia. 



