88 LEPIDOPTERA. 



six to nine the V-marks were developed into X-marks ; and 

 the sides were tinged und freckled with red-brown. 



August till June, hybernating while still very small, re- 

 comnaencing to feed according to the season, in ilarch, April, 

 or May, and then feeding up more rapidly. On Goliv.m 

 molliujo, G. vcrum, Conrol cuius arvcnsis, knotgrass, and 

 doubtless other low-growing plants; also on broom; sluggish 

 and remaining during a large portion of its existence at rest, 

 in a straight or curved position, ujion the dead portions of 

 its food plant, to which it bears a close resemblance ; and 

 which it appears to relish as food quite as much as the fresh 

 portions. It also appears to be sensitive to warmth in the 

 same manner as many of the species of Aridxlin, since the 

 late Jlr. J. R. \Vellman succeeded in rearing a second 

 generation in the year in his warm sitting-room. 



J'ri'A about three-eigliths of an inch long; smooth and 

 shining ; the colour reddish-yellow, with the wiug cases 

 greenish. In a loose cocoon in a corner. (G. T. Porritt.) 



The moth sits among herbage, often at the foot of a 

 hedge-bank, during the day, and is sluggisJi and tinwilling 

 to tly ; often it sits quite ex2)osed, and may be boxed with- 

 out difficulty. Its flight is very soft and gentle, and takes 

 place naturally at rather late dusk ; and it is strongly 

 attracted by light, so much so that it will often come to a 

 lamp when fog keeps almost everything else away. It fre- 

 quents damp woods, moist lanes and hedges, marshes and 

 fens, and was formerly rather common in lanes in the out- 

 skirts of London. Still found, and in some districts com- 

 monly, throughout the Soutlurn counties from Kent to 

 Devon and Somerset, including ]5erks and ISIiddlesex ; also 

 111 the Kastern counties, the fen districts es})eciallj", and in 

 Northamptonshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire; 

 in the Slidlands it is scarce or ver}- local, but exists in 

 Leicestershire, Staffordshire. Derbyshire, and Yorkshire, 

 find onlv one record of it in Wales, [Mr. A'ivian haviu>' taken 



