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spiracular region ; head notched ; the front and hinder seg- 

 ments very short, so that the legs appear as though pLaced 

 close together at either extremity ; colour ]iale ochreous ; a 

 brown double dorsal line, strongly marked on the head, faint 

 on the front segments, is confluent and strongly marked 

 behind ; subdorsal line brown, very plain and distinct on the 

 head and to the fourth segment, then almost lost till it 

 becomes strongly marked again on the hinder segments, but 

 its position marked on the segmental folds by pairs of dots ; 

 on segments five to nine pale brown oblique dashes reach 

 from the dorsal to below the subdorsal line; spiracles black, 

 placed on a whitish ridge ; undersurface darker than the 

 back, being suffused with blackish, and having a darker 

 irregular central line ; under the spiracles are some darker 

 dashes. In repose it keeps the front segments bent down, 

 but the head and neck turned up again, in an uncomfortable- 

 looking attitude, suggestive of a " crick "' in the neck. 

 (Rev. J. Hellins.) 



September till April on flowers of PuiipliiAhi saxlfraiia. 

 and AntJtriscui hi/I rest r is, also, in confinement on withered 

 dandelion leaves, hawthorn, knotgrass, and J'ofciitllla frcuja- 

 rltistruin, even well pleased with a mouldy slice of turnip! 



I'l TA undescribed, in a compact little cocoon in the earth. 



The moth has a very quiet weak flight, hiding itself in the 

 daytime in hedges, undergrowth, or herbage, and easily 

 disturbed, when it promptly seeks a similar concealment. 

 Common in lanes, hedges, roads, wood-sides, the borders of 

 fields, gardens, apparently everywhere throughout England ; 

 and doubtless Wales, since it is equally plentiful in Glamor- 

 ganshire and Pembrokeshire; founil also in all parts of 

 Ireland and often abundantly. In Scotland less common, 

 even scarce in some districts, but found in all the southern 

 portion, to the Clyde valley in the West ; to Perthshire ; and 

 in the I'last, to Moray. Abroad it is found thoughout Central 

 Europe. Central and Northern Italy, Corsica, Finland, 



