362 LEPIDOPTERA. 



and another tinged with pink along the spiracles ; hairs 

 white ; under surface semi-translucent yellowish-grey ; pro- 

 legs jjurplish-pink on the outside ; legs dark sienna-brown 

 with paler rings. 



Or — the ground colour is bright pale green ; the markings 

 the same, except that the white lines are hardly so con- 

 spicuous ; in some specimens the smoky dorsal line is tinged 

 with pink, and the ventral surface and prolegs are of the 

 same bright green as the dorsal area. (G. T. Porritt.) 



August and September — and Frey says July — on Stachys 

 sylvatica and Salvia glutinosa, feeding on the flowers ; also, 

 upon the Continent, feeding on the seeds of Aipdlegia vulgaris. 



Pupa slender, with two somewhat curved and pointed 

 protuberances on the back ; either green or purple. Attached 

 by the anal hooks to the food-plant, hanging like a little 

 slender butterfly-pupa. 



The moth is rather secret in its habits, hiding in dense 

 hedges, or among thick herbage in the daytime, but not 

 easily disturbed, and not very often seen. It flies at night, 

 and will come to the flowers of ragwort. Found sparingly 

 in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, CtIou- 

 cestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Salop, Cheshire. 

 Lancashire, and Westmoreland. In Wales only recorded 

 from Cardiganshire, where it was found by Mr. N. M. 

 Richardson ; in Scotland singly from Berwickshire, Perth- 

 shire, and Argyleshire ; in Ireland only at Killarnej', a record 

 which is not confirmed. Abroad it has a very wide range 

 through Sweden and Norway, the greater portion of Central 

 Europe, Sicily, Dalmatia, and liussia, and in North America, 

 in California and Oregon. 



Genus 5. OXYPTILUS. 



Antenute short, simple; palpi ascending, thickened in the 

 middle, compressed at the sides, pointed ; forehead not 



