THE FLOUNCED RUSTIC. 267 



The Beautiful Gothic {Hdiophobus hispidus). 



This species (Plate 127, Figs. 6, 7) varies in the iDrown colour 

 of the fore wings, which is sometimes of a greyish tint ; not 

 infrequently the pale cross lines are tinged with brownish, or 

 they may be rather broad, and, the submarginal especially, 

 white and very distinct ; the reniform and orbicular marks are 

 sometimes tinged with pink. The caterpillar (Plate 133, Fig. 3) 

 is pale rusty brown, with blackish markings, and three pale 

 lines on the back ; head glossy and rather paler than the body, 

 and marked with two blackish lines. It feeds on grasses from 

 September to March. The specimen figured (slightly enlarged) 

 was received from Mr. Walker of Torquay on January 11, 1907. 

 The chrysalis (Fig. 3A) is dull reddish, ring divisions and wing- 

 cases paler and brighter ; two hooks on last ring. The moth is 

 out from the latter part of August to early October, and in its 

 haunts, which are cliffs by the sea, it may be found at night 

 sitting on grass stems. It is not known to visit flowers or the 

 sugar patch, but has been taken at light. Although previously 

 taken in the Isle of Portland, the earliest published record was 

 that in the Zoologist for 1849 o^ ^ specimen taken on the sand- 

 hills at Exmouth, late in September. It still occurs at Portland 

 and at Swanage in Dorset; also in the Isle of Wight and along 

 the Devon coast to Cornwall. The range abroad is restricted, 

 the species only being noted from Southern France, North-east 

 and Southern Spain, Sicily, Palestine, and North-west Africa. 



The Flounced Rustic {Luperina tcstaccd). .^ ^xU 



Portraits of this moth will be found on Plate 128, Figs. 5, 6. '7 ^ 

 The ground colour of the fore wings ranges from very pale 

 brown through greyish brown to blackish. In some specimens 

 the markings are very faint, and, excepting the whitish sub- 

 marginal line, are hardly visible. Usually there is a black or 



