l8o THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



time of flight, but it is on the wing at dusk. It is partial to 

 "sugar" and has been known to visit flowers. 



This species has been recorded from a large number of 

 localities in England extending from the Scilly Isles to the 

 Scottish border. From the circumstances connected with 

 many of such captures one is led to suspect that the insect has 

 migratory habits. In England the most favoured locality is 

 the New Forest in Hampshire, where it abounds in some 

 seasons, l)ut is quite scarce in others. It occurs, more or less 

 regularly, in the larger woods in Dorset, extending into Devon ; 

 also in Sussex ranging into Kent, but is only occasionally 

 common in either of these counties, ("icnerally considered to 

 be uncommon in the eastern counties, but has been reported to 

 occur in large numbers at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. The localities 

 given in Kane's catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland are 

 Killarney, Timoleague, Co. Cork, Curraghmore (abundant\ 

 Lismore, Borris, Co. Carlow, and Clonbrock. To these may be 

 added Dublin, and Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. 



Distribiuion : Central Europe, Southern Sweden, Livonia, 

 Dalmatia, Armenia, Amurland, Corca, and Jajian. 



Th^. Buff Footman (Lit/iosia de.plajia). 



F'ore wings, ochreous grey, tinged with yellow on the basal 

 half of the front margins ; hind wings paler, becoming greyer 

 on the outer area ; fringes of all the wings yellow. The male is 

 fairly constant in colour, but the female sometimes has a distinct 

 yellow stripe on the front margin of the fore wings extending to 

 the fringes (var. ochrcola, Hlibn.) ; more rarely in the New- 

 Forest (?), and in the Isle of Purbeck a form occurs with the 

 fore wings orange buff, and the hind wings only slightly tinged 

 with grey (var. unicolor^ Hankes). (Plate 97, Figs. 1-3.) 



Caterpillar, greyish, or greenish grey, freckled with darker, 

 hairs grey inclining to brownish ; a broad creamy or yellow ish 



