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Underside quite like the upper, yet a little paler. Body 

 pale brown. 



Usually not variable ; but in the south of Scotland a form 

 is found, by Mr. Adam Elliot, little more than one half the 

 usual size. 



On the wing from August through the autumn, then 

 hybernating, and reappearing in the spring, till May or 

 even June. 



Larva. Length 4 lines ; somewhat leech-like, both ex- 

 tremities pointed ; anterior segments retractile ; head 

 smaller than the second segment, pale pinkish -brown, 

 spotted with darker brown ; mandibles dark brown ; ground 

 colour reddish-pink or saliuon-colour, becoming paler when 

 nearly full fed, and finally, just before pupation, yellowish- 

 white ; no raised dots, but a few short bristles are scattered 

 over the body. 



June and July in the buds and flowers of honeysuckle 

 {Lonicera pcricli/mcnum). Dr. Chapman says that its food 

 consists mainly of the pollen of the flower, but that it also 

 eats the filaments of the stamens and styles of the pistils, 

 and will gnaw the inner surface of the corolla ; from time to 

 time it emerges from one flower, sometimes having devoured 

 only its pollen, and enters another by a small round hole. 



Pupa. In general proportions and outline very like that of 

 a Noctua ; pale brown and somewhat delicate ; its terminal 

 armature consists of a double bunch of hooks, ten or twelve 

 in number, with slender shafts ; the spiracles are large and 

 well developed ; dorsal head-plates very large. In a slight 

 but tough cocoon on or under the surface of the earth. 

 (Dr. Chapman.) 



The moth hides during the day in hedges or bushes, or 

 under any shelter over which the honeysuckle may be grow- 

 ing, and is easily disturbed. It seems rather fond of build- 

 ings, creeps into them to hybernate under beams, on ceilings, 



