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grown, and feeding again in April and May ; on Galium 

 rerum, knotgrass, cliickweed, and various otlier low-growing 

 plants, and in spring — in confinement — on brambles and the 

 opening buds of blackthorn, hawthorn, bircli, and sallow. 

 V'cry sluggish, feigning death if disturbed. 



Pupa rather blunt in front, eye-covers very small ; covers 

 of the limbs and antenna3 closely compacted and very smooth. 

 yet not glossy; wing-covers also smooth and dull, but with- 

 out sculpture, the nervures alone noticeable ; dorsal and 

 abdominal segments distinctly overlapping, smooth, dull, yet 

 not visibly pitted; spiracles distinct, brown ; anal segment ex- 

 panded and much rounded ; cremaster a conspicuous rounded 

 knob, without spines or bristles, but roughened at the tip ; 

 general colour pale reddish-brown ; with a darker brown 

 shade down the back and at the junctions of the segments; 

 wing-covers green ; cremaster dark red-brown. In a loose 

 silken cocoon among rubbish, or in the earth. 



A quiet gentle familiar moth, fluttering about our gardens 

 and shrubberies, and in lanes, hedgerows, and the borders of 

 woods, hiding in bushes or among herbage, easily disturbed by 

 day, flying naturally at dusk ; apparently found in all parts 

 of England and AVales ; but in Scotland more attached to the 

 shelter of marshy woods, occurring in the east to Moray, but 

 in the west only to the Clyde district, and in most districts 

 appearing in both the ]>ale and the banded form ; the more 

 ochreous varieties are common on some parts of the coast of 

 the Eastern counties of England, and also in Ireland, in which 

 country it is widely distributed, but its banded form scarce. 

 Abroad it is found almost all over Europe, except in the 

 coldest portions, also in Asia Elinor. 



23. A. inornata, Haw. — Soft dull yellowish-white ; first 

 and second lines sinuous, but the second devoid of the angle 

 below the costa. Otherwise very similar to the preceding 

 species. 



