-»8 I.EPinOPTEKA. 



Vs, one pointing forward, the other backwarrl — their arms 

 reaching nearly to the subdorsal line— and between them 

 enclosing a blunt diamond of the ground colour, through the 

 middle of which the dark-edged dorsal line shows distinctly ; 

 posterior segments marked only with the dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines, and havingon each the usual four dots, here showing more 

 distinctly as not being confused with the other markings ; 

 spiracular stripe pale ochreous, freckled and edged below with 

 dusk}' ; uudersurface pale grey, freckled and mottled in the 

 same manner. 



When young very rugose ; dark and dingy ; but under a 

 lens the back is seen to be brownish-ochreous, with a pale 

 grey, interrupted dorsal line, and five dusky ^s on the 

 middle segments, with their apices pointing forwards. 

 (Rev. J. Hellins.) 



September or October till May ; and a second generation in 

 July and the beginning of August, on thyme, marjoram, and 

 mint — apparently preferring thyme. 



Pita brown, with green wing-covers ; among spun- 

 to^ether leaves. (Ilofmann.) Not more fully described. 



The moth sits daring tJie day among grass or herbaceous 

 plants, such as marjoram and thyme, in grassy hollows, hill- 

 sides, and downs, in chalk districts, choosing those places in 

 which the herbage is thick. It flies up readily if disturbed, 

 and flits along from place to place among similar herbage. 

 At early dusk it flies naturally on similar ground, and is 

 then much more conspicuous, and apparently more plentiful. 



In such places it is tolerably common about Deal, Dover. 

 Folkestone, Walraer, and elsewhere in Kent ; all along the 

 chalk downs of Susse.v, about Keigate, Mickleham, Hoxhill, 

 and other similar hills in Surrey, on the Cotswolds in 

 Gloucestershire, and in iJucks. It is scarce in Somerset : 

 has once been taken in Cornwall; is rare in Suffolk and 

 Norfolk ; and was once found commonly near Wliittlesford. 

 ■(Jambs., by ilr. A. 'riniruall. In all jirobability it may be 



