68 LEPIDOPTERA. 



V-marks ; sides dilated iuto a liattened extension which gives 

 the larva a broadened aspect ; head very prominent, rough, 

 and not shining, horn-colour with two whitish spots at the 

 back ; body dull pink mottled with yellowish-white, shaded 

 with grey in front, with brown behind ; or sometimes more 

 red-brown or chocolate ; often showing a pale dorsal spot 

 each on the sixth and seventh segments ; otherwise almost 

 without markings. Attitude very erect, conveying the idea 

 that it stretches itself to the utmost; not willing to drop 

 from its food if disturbed. (Larvte furnished for description 

 by Mr. W. Holland.) 



August till October, then hybernating, and in the spring 

 feeding very slowly till June; on dock, knotgrass, water- 

 pepper, sweet violet, chickweed, Ci mdium arnnsc, G'llium, 

 Ononis, Runuw, Li/.-ilmarhia, and other low-growing plants; 

 also on blackthorn, bramble, sallow, heather, and whortle- 

 berry. It has no objection to eating withered food. 



Pupa yellow-brown; anal segment smaller and darker; 

 cremaster conical ; tipped with four minute hooks, and 

 having two more at the sides. (Roghf.) 



The habits of this moth are very similar to those of the 

 last species, but it is a little more disposed to spend the day 

 sitting upon fences or the trunks of fir trees, and is not at all 

 timid. Mr. I'orritt writes me that it is now (July 1900) 

 most abundant in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, flying 

 about bilberry and heather in tin; VMida, not on the moors, 

 lie has never before seen it in this abundance. Half a dozen 

 were captured at one stroke of the net ! In the north it may 

 sometimes be found sitting upon a rock in the full sunlight. 

 It iiies very quietly at dusk, and will come to sugar spread 

 upon a tree trunk to attract NocUuc, also to flowers such as 

 those of the (ield-scabious. It seems to be attached to warm 

 sandy districts, especially in the neighbourhood of woods, and 

 on heaths, and is rather common in the Breck-sand districts 

 of Norfolk and Suffolk; also found locally in Essex, Kent, 



