448 LEPIDOPTERA. 



beneath the radical leaves ; living in sandy regions. In this 

 country some other food-plant is surely selected. 



The moth sits during the day on, or close to, the ground, 

 frequenting dry rough slopes, and stony places where herb- 

 age is scanty, railway banks, the bottoms of open quarries, 

 and the slopes of chalk hills, but is so timid that it is impos- 

 sible to see what so obscure looking an insect is resting upon, 

 before it starts wildly up and flies a considerable distance, 

 to drop again to the ground, often turning back to near the 

 original spot. Perhaps from their close growth to the ground 

 and the good cover that they afford, the patches of Ifieracium 

 pilosella seem to be more jiarticularly chosen for its hiding 

 places. In the South of Scotland Mr. Adam Klliot lias 

 found it show a similar preference for wild thyme. The 

 female is less wild and may occasionally be seen when at 

 rest; it sits cross-ways upon grass and not at all in the 

 manner of the Cramb'ulo:, its appearance is then more metallic 

 than when preserved. A very local species, but found in 

 Kent, Sussex, Surrey, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Devon, 

 Cornwall, Somerset, Wilts, Berks, O.xfordshire, riloucester- 

 shire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Noi-foUi ; formerly in 

 South Yorkshire and Westmoreland, and has been taken in 

 Durham. In Wales I found it, rarely, in Pembrokeshire ; in 

 Scotland it occurs, uncommonly, in Roxburghshire. Fife, 

 and Perthshire ; but I have found no record in Ireland. 



Abroad its range extends through Central ]']urope, the 

 temperate portions of Northern Europe, Italy, Dahnatia, 

 Southern Russia, Asia Minor, and Armenia. 



