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segments to the tentli, but curved baclcwards ou the other 

 three; these bristles have the extremity as thick as tlie base. 

 (W. Buckler.) 



Septemlier till ,V]iril. and, as a paitial second generation, 

 in July: on knotgrass and other low-growing' plants, also on 

 ivy, and when young on birch and ma]jle. As already 

 remarked, the production of a second generation is much 

 influenced by temperature. Mr. Buckler says that it is a 

 very timid larv'a, contracting itself at the least alarm, and 

 then remaining a long time without movement ; also that 

 its attitude in repose is a close coil, with its head twisted to 

 one side, over the tenth segment. 



J'ri'.'i apparently nndescribed. 



The moth is especially fond of hiding itself during the 

 day. in the bottoms of hedges, from which it may be beaten 

 out, Init tlies fpiickly to similar shelter; it frequents country 

 lanes and the edges of \yoods ; Hies naturally at dusk, and 

 will come occasionally to sugar and liglit. It is an exceed- 

 ingly local species, but found rather commonly in some parts 

 of Kent and Essex, more rarely at Tilgate Forest and Abbot's 

 ^\'ood. Susse.K ; the New Forest and Heckheld Heath. Hants : 

 and very locally in Surrey. Dorset, Wilts, Gloucestershire, 

 Herefordshire, and at Malvern. Worcestershire; also in 

 Suffolk, usually rareh\ but found last season, by the llev. 

 A. P. ^Valler, fpiite commonly at Waldringfield, coming l)Oth 

 to sugar and to light ; and taken by Mr. G. F. Mathew in 

 Fssex. There are records for other localities in England, of 

 whirli one or two may possibly be correct, since the insect 

 is of f|uiet, obscure habits, and might readily be sometimes 

 overlooked, but most of the records in question are evident 

 errors ; the darker forms of the last species being often mis- 

 taken for the present. Such 1 feel no doubt has been the 

 case with respect to the single records in Scotland and 

 Ireland. Abroad it is found in some parts of Central Ihirope, 



