394 I.EPIDOPTERA. 



of black dots across the back of each segment ; spiracles 

 black ; anal segment white. 



September and October, and another generation in •Inly. 



On Hupatorium cannahinum (hemp-agrimony) in the 

 highest portion of the stem, especially at the axils of the 

 bunch of flower-stalks, eating out the pith, and extruding 

 frass through a round hole in the side ; sometimes also at 

 the second and third joint lower down ; occasionally two 

 feeding one above the other. 



J'UPA a quarter of an inch long, rather slender, thorax 

 rounded and well defined ; having a few bristly hairs ; head 

 and eye covers rather prominent ; wing covers long ; leg 

 cases reaching to the last abdominal segment but one, but 

 free from it; on the abdomen are sub-dorsal, lateral, and 

 sub-spiracular rows of hooks in pairs ; whole surface glisten- 

 ing bronzy-green. In the stem of the food plant, in a small 

 cleared space, the head uppermost, the tail steadied by a 

 few silken threads from the frass beneath. (W. J^uckler.) 



The moth buzzes quietly about the plants of hemp-agri- 

 monj'' in the early dusk and may be shaken out earlier, but 

 it is a very fi-agile species, and at no time makes any very 

 vigorous movement. Common where it occurs, generally in 

 marshy places, in Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, 

 Wilts, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Herts, Cambridgeshire 

 (in the fens), Suffolk, Norfolk (in fens), North Lancashire, 

 Yorkshire, and Durham, In Wales, in both Glamorganshire 

 and Pembrokeshire ; in Scotland only noticed in the extreme 

 south — in Berwickshire by ]\lr. W. G. Guthrie, and in Rox- 

 burghshire by JMr. A. E. Elliot; recorded in Ireland, in 

 Galway, and Sligo, b}- ilr. Kane. Abroad it is well distri- 

 buted through Central Europe, Sweden, ilid-Italy, Sardinia, 

 North Spain, Livonia, Dulmatia, Pontus, and Bithynia. 



5. L. brachydactylus. — Expanse j to | inch (lG-22 

 mm.). Wings all rather short, with broad lobes; black- 



