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Pupa moderately stout ; Tviug covers long and closely 

 packed ; eye-covers large ; the abdomen tapering, but 

 ending in a blunt tip with a few excessively minute curly- 

 topped bristles ; glossy light reddish-ochreous-brown ; eyes 

 and tip of the abdomen black ; a dark blotch on either side 

 of the back; wing covers rather pale. In a silken cocoou 

 on the ground among the leaves of its food-plant. 



The moth hides during the day upon the ground among 

 short grass or the close herbage of rocks, downs, or chalk 

 hills ; in the afternoon it will readily fly up from the foot- 

 step, rising to some height in the air and then dashing 

 swiftly away, to settle at some distance in a similar place. 

 Most common on chalk hills ; but widely distributed also on 

 the oolite, in limestone districts, and along the cliffs of the 

 sea-coast ; found in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, the Isle of Wight, 

 Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Wilts, Berks, Oxford- 

 shire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, 

 Cheshire, Somersetshire, and Durham. In Wales in Pem- 

 brokeshire and also in Anglesea ; rather common in the Isle 

 of Man ; in Scotland near Edinburgh, in Perthshire, Kirk- 

 cudbright, and Wigtownshire ; in Ireland on the coast of 

 Dublin, in Galway, and rarely in Down. Abroad it is 

 common throughout Central Europe, especially upon the 

 mountains, also in Corsica, Livonia, Bulgaria, and Russia. 



Genns 6. EPISCHNIA. 



Antennfe simple, the basal joint, in the male, long and 

 thick ; second joint elbowed, but not perceptibly thickened ; 

 palpi rather slender, porrected, pointed ; tongue long ; fore 

 wings narrow, discal cell also narrow. Hind wings mode- 

 rately ample, the cell open, and vein 5 absent. 



This genus includes, abroad, a number of closely allied 

 species, but we have only two, and those not very similar— 



