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narrower than the second segment. The body lias a more 

 uniform appearance than in many of the species in this genus, 

 but like them gradually widens from the second to the ninth 

 segment ; the next three are of nearly uniform width, but 

 more narrow than the ninth, and the thirteentli is still 

 narrower ; segments distinctly marked and each transverselj^ 

 ribbed, and clotlied with a very few short scattered bristly 

 hairs. tJrouud colour dirty dull smoky-brown, marbled and 

 variegated with ochreous-yellow, the darker colour predomi- 

 nating on the front segments, the ochreous on the ninth to 

 the thirteenth ; the head is also of these two colours in about 

 €qual proportion ; dorsal line ochreous, deeply edged with 

 smoke-colour ; no perceptible subdorsal lines, but a conspic- 

 uous ochreous line extends through the region of the spiracles : 

 on the hinder part of the sixth, seventh, and eighth segments 

 is a distinct white spot ; ventral surface of the same dull 

 dark smoky-brown as the dorsal, but it has a very prettv 

 series of large ochreous crescentic marks, extending thi'oiigh- 

 out its entire length, and there is a very faint indication of a 

 pale central line; hairs black, (ti. T. I'orritt.) 



August till April on low growing plants. The larv;u 

 described were reared from the egg, and fed upon dandelion, 

 •especially on the withered leaves, also when young upon 

 knotgrass ; others have accepted scarlet pimpernel i^AnaijuUi^i 

 Hrccnsi'i) and showed the same partiality for the withered 

 leaves. 



Pupa uudescribed : in a very slight cocoon just lienentli 

 the surface of the ground. 



The moth is a very quiet gentle little creature, tlutterint;- 

 about when disturbed from among the low herbage in which 

 it usually hides, during the day, but soon settling down a^ain. 

 It is found about lanes and hedges, the margins of woods. 

 and (|uite as commonly among the stiff grasses of the sea 

 sandhills. Sometimes abundant, and usually prettv common 

 throughout the South of England, except that it is verv local 



