j6o LEPIDOPTERA. 



Pupa pale groen or pale brown, with the wing, leg, and 

 antenna-covers darker, and a purple-brown tint on all the 

 angles. Attached by the tail hooks to the Hower spike 

 between two of the wliorls of flowers, and looking wonderfully 

 like a withered blossom itself. 



The moth hides among herbage during the day, very often 

 in the summer among restharrow or heather ; later in the 

 year in hedges and bushes, and is of somewhat perplexing 

 habits. On the coast and in sandy districts it is thus often 

 common, hiding in the beds of restharrow and keeping quite 

 close to that plant ; but in autumn it seems to have forsaken 

 those spots for the lanes and hedges, and in them it may be 

 found till winter. It is supposed by some that the late 

 autumn specimens hybernate and reappear early in June, but 

 this even seems to be mainly a surmise; the June specimens 

 are not worn, yet no larvaj have been, apparently, observed 

 in the spring. In autumn it will come at night to ivy-bloom 

 and heather-blossom, and to sugar and light. Apparently 

 to be found throughout England though rather locally, and 

 most attached to the coast ; quite scarce in the Northern 

 and Midland Counties. Probably well distributed in Wales, 

 though I only 'know of its presence in Pembrokeshire. In 

 Scotland found in Berwickshire, Fife, Aberdeenshire, Perth- 

 shire and Lanark ; in Ireland in Wicklow, Cork, Kerry, 

 Sligo, and Fermanagh. 



Abroad it seems to be found all over the Continent of 

 Europe, and in Armenia, Syria, Madeira, the Canaries, 

 Morocco and other parts of Northern Africa. Professor 

 Fernald records it in New York State in North America. 



2. A. punctidactylus, Hav. ; cosmodactylus, 



Stand. Cat. — Expanse | inch (21-23 mm.). Very similar 

 to the last, but colour pale olive-grey, and the markings 

 olive-brown or greenish-black. Hind wings smoky brown. 



Antennte of the male short, simple, black-brown, faintlj- 

 barred with white ; palpi small, pointed, dark brown, edged 



