3S4 LEPIDOPTEKA. 



upper surl'iice of a leaf, lying in a hollow, and Lardly to be 

 distinguished at a glance from a larva. (G. T. Porritt.) 



This is rather a sluggish species. It hides during the day 

 in the thick masses of the Fleabane, or hangs upon the lower 

 part of the Ploughman's spikenard, a plant of more solitary 

 growth ; if disturbed scrambles down and creeps among the 

 herbage, and unless the afternoon is well advanced decidedly 

 objects to fly. At late dusk it is quite active, flying among 

 its food-plants. 



Rather local, yet common in its favourite haunts in all the 

 Southern coast counties, also in the Eastern Counties to 

 Norfolk, and in the Western to Westmoreland, but scarce or 

 absent in the ^lidlauds, except that it lias been found in 

 Leicestershire and Staffordshire; also in Yorkshire, but 

 although formerly existent in Durham it ajipears to have 

 been almost extirpated. Further north than this it seems to 

 be unknown, and in Wales I have no record except for 

 Llandudno and Llanferris in North Wales, and my own in 

 Pembrokeshire — where Inula cony::a was its favoured food. 

 In Ireland it has been taken in Cork County, Galway, 

 Monaghan and Fermanagh. Abroad it ranges through 

 Central Europe, the temperate portions of Northern 

 Europe, France, the North of Spain and of Italy, Dalmatia, 

 Southern and Eastern Russia, and Bithynia. 



Genus 8. PTEROPHORUS. 



Antennaj simple, rather long, the basal joint thickened ; 

 palpi short, slender, rounded, pointed ; head smooth ; hind 

 wings cleft to one-third their length, no anal angle to the 

 flrst lobe, and that of the hind lobe indistinct. Hind wings 

 deeply divided, the three lobes long and having long cilia. 

 Legs long; tibiaj not thickened, liut feet tufted with small 

 brushes of scales. When at rest the fore wings rolled round 

 the hind. 



We have only one sjiecies. 



