P TER( V'HORID.K—MIM. ESIOI' Til. US. 377 



Pupa slender, attached by the tail ; the wing-cases loug, 

 the tips well produced and projecting a little, though lying 

 close along the abdomen ; the head and thorax rise a little 

 on the back to a ridge ; tail pointed ; green, slightly inclin- 

 ing to olive, the wing-covers darker green ; there are a 

 purplish-brown dorsal stripe, and two parallel lines of the 

 same colour, along the subdorsal region. (W. Buckler.) 



The moth can hardly be said to hide during the day ; 

 it hangs on to the plants of scabious, and when disturbed 

 dances away with a curious tipula-like Hight, its long legs 

 conspicuous and apparently buoyant, but it only flies a few 

 yards to a similar resting place on the scabious or on grass ; 

 constantly to be found in boggy meadows, marshes and open 

 damp woods among Hcuhioaa succi-m, and on chalky slopes 

 among >S'. colamharia, the smallest specimens being found 

 among the former plant in the most open pastures. To be 

 found, usually in the typical and smaller forms, in suitable 

 places throughout England, Wales and Ireland, and in 

 Scotland in Roxburghshire, Midlothian, Fife, Renfrew, Dum- 

 bartonshire, Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, and Moray ; in the 

 plai/iodacfylus variety in chalk districts, and in the large 

 umbreous form in the Fens. Abroad, in the typical form 

 all over Europe except the polar region, occurring in 

 Lapland ; also in Asia Minor, Palestine, Syria, Armenia, the 

 Canaries, and Northern Africa ; the variety i^latjiofhictylia 

 being frequent in the Alpine regions of Europe. 



3. M. zophodactylus, Dap. ; loewii, ZcU. — Expanse ■; 

 to 'I inch (15-18 mm.). Foi'e wings very narrow, not broad 

 behind, whitish-brown ; a small black dot is before the 

 fissure and another half-way from this to the base ; extreme 

 edge of costa >yhite. Hind wings pale brown with a reddish 

 gloss. 



AntenniB of the male simple, dark brown, paler in front ; 

 palpi very short, bluntly pointed, drab ; head and thorax 

 whitish-brown ; abdomen dull pale brown with whitish 



